Winners of the National Music Festival

The group, which has been together for about 15 years and has a wide musical background, managed to achieve this important victory last weekend after passing through several filters in front of judges with a long musical career in the country.

“Winning this festival is very important because it brings together the best exponents of Creole rumba in the country. It's having the added advantage of knowing how to interpret music of this level, which is not easy to achieve. It's setting a precedent in a festival where the best of this type of musical interpretation go,” said Andrés Felipe Cely Triana, director of the musical group.

The group consists of four people, two of whom are siblings who graduated from the Music program at the Zipaquirá extension in 2019. They are Andrés Cely Triana, who plays the requinto tiple, and Natalia Catalina Cely Triana, on the tiple. They are accompanied by their mother, María Triana, who plays minor percussion, and also Santiago Paiba on the other tiple.

The journey of the Cely Triana group has been very important; they have among their achievements such as, for example, first place in the Mono Núñez Festival, winners of the King of the Carranguero Requinto and even presence in countries like Germany, where they managed to tour thirteen cities taking their talent performing Colombian peasant music, among many other achievements.

The group's connection with UCudninamarca is also in the workplace; Natalia currently works with the University at the Ubaté branch, where she is part of University Welfare in the cultural area.

“This is a good time to thank the University of Cundinamarca for allowing us, since we were students, to showcase our talent. I remember when they took us to each campus of the university to have our first experiences on musical stages that began to open doors for us,” concluded Andrés Cely.

For now, the group will continue its musical journey, reaching more festivals and events where they perform, sometimes weekly, to bring the music of Cundiboyacense and Andes with its pasillos, bambucos and torbellinos.

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