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The Cali Fair is the main and most important event in the city.
Get to know the Cali Fair.
It is the biggest event of our city and a cherished symbol of our cultural identity. Every year from December 25th to 30th, Cali residents reaffirm their unwavering passion for life, salsa, and joy.
The Fair’s origins trace back to an exclusively bullfighting event. Historians note that this celebration lasted an entire month. Priorly, festivities were held in the grand halls within hotels and clubs, with Antillean-inspired music.
The Cali Fair in Colombia offers a variety of events, including the Salsódromo parade featuring classic and antique cars, the Superconcert, and the great verbena. This maximum event of the city showcases the folklore and culture of its people.
The Cali Fair has a mythical origin, with its birth rooted in history. Unfortunately, a colossal explosion resulted in the immediate death of nearly 4,000 people and left at least 12,000 injured.
For an entire year, our city experienced a deep depression, compounded by socioeconomic hardships.
Around 1.1 million people attend annually.
The event showcases a historical tour of the city’s streets and the collections of Cali. Participants drive vintage vehicles manufactured during the early 1900s while dressed in period costumes alongside their loved ones.
Symbol of our caleñidad.
Fair exemplifies the unique qualities of our community, transforming and showing resilience.
This fair is a timely invitation to reconstruct socio-affective bonds, safeguard traditions, and strengthen culture.
The Cali Fair is a unique, inclusive and diverse space where, within the framework of the festival, the exercise of a responsible, civic, supportive and respectful citizenship is valued, which as one makes alive the exercise of citizenship with a deep intention to strengthen vital elements for life in citizenship, in a bid to unite the city in purposes that contribute to the common good in a constructive dialogue that recognizes who we are to meet again in the difference, ratifying that the Cali Fair is and will continue to be joy that inspires.
Cali is Salsa.
If you are in Cali during the Feria you will live the best days of your life, where Salsa, dance, gastronomy and the warmth of its people will make you fall in love with La Sucursal del Cielo.
The city where there are more than 100 dance schools and more than 2,000 dancers and where the World Salsa Festival is held every year.
Cali is Gastronomy.
Cali is a universe of flavors, a city with a rich gastronomic offer, invaluable gift
gastronomic offer, a priceless gift from the cultures that converge in the Sultana del Valle, such as the mestizo peoples of the Andes, the indigenous and Afro-Colombian
indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples.
To enjoy all these wonderful dishes in Cali there are five gastronomic zones: Peñón, Granada, Ciudad Jardín, Parque del Perro and Zona T (Calle 9 between carreras 56 and 66).
Cali is Tourism.
Santiago de Cali is strengthened in tourism to show the world all its virtues in nature, culture, sports, among others.
We are a destination that inspires locals and visitors with the human quality of its inhabitants, the traditional flavors and dozens of tourist resources that you have to know. There are more than 44 festivals and 50 events every year, welcome!
Also Read: Arabella la Sonera Mayor de Colombia in her Callejón on a Sunday in Barrio with Chico Matanza
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Leo Pacheco Sonero del barrio and beloved example of father and friend was lead vocalist of the Orquesta Renovación under the direction of the tumbador Nico Monterola.
On May 17, 1948, Alejo Veliz Pacheco was born in Las González, Miranda State.
Under the musical influence of his father, an outstanding Afro-Venezuelan drummer, his debut as a professional took place in 1973, when he became the lead vocalist of the Renovación, after the departure of Orlando Castillo “Watussi” to the orchestra of Porfi Jiménez.
An advanced group, which emerged on February 6, 1973, under the musical influence of Harlow y la Perfecta, became the ideal competition to the “Galician” Dimensión Latina.
Under the direction of tumbador Nico Monterola, La Renovación, despite not having much luck, presented in its ranks timbalero Alfredo Cutuflá, (great Venezuelan timbalero, with a brilliant career in France), then Cheo Navarro (Director of Bailatino), the future trombonists of Oscar D’ León, the Piñango brothers: Nené and Taito.
This is the first recording for the album of La Renovación, one of the best Venezuelan salsa groups of the 70s. La Renovación since its foundation had in its ranks a select group of musicians that in the future would make a brilliant career in our salsa, needless to say that this group in its different stages has always tried to maintain a very fat and hard sound in the style of the good bands of New York”.
This LP gathers many good songs but there is one in particular that I like very much and it is “Guaguancó a Barlovento”, authored by Orlando Watussi, who was also founder of this group, but he left before the recording of this first album.
Rafael García on bass, Félix Suárez “Shakaito” (future director of the Bronko), Hungria Rojas (later Oscar D’ León’s bongos player) and the vocalization of Leo Pacheco, who recorded with them, (5) Cinco Producciones: Echa Pa’ lante (1974); Llegó la Renovación (1975); Pare Cochero (1975); Lo máximo es Renovación (1976) and A todo el mundo le gusta (1976).
Due to some problems he left La Renovación and went on tour to Colombia with Nelson Henríquez, commitments that prevented him from joining the newly formed orchestra of Oscar D’ León, who observed in Leo his great conditions to do the chorus and second voice, (as a substitute for the work done by Wladimir Lozano in Dimensión Latina), and in a nightclub, Oscar told him: “Leo was looking for you, because the two of us, for whatever comes out …”, “here there is nothing else…”, “here we are going to bust everybody…”.
In fact, after Rodrigo Mendoza’s departure in March 1977, the band replaced him thanks to Leo Pacheco’s very special timbre to do the chorus and second voice, with some songs that served as witnesses, such as the unforgettable: Juramento, Fuego de Amor, Capullito de Azucena, Cruel Desilusión (Con la Crítica de Oscar), among others.
The last days of May 1977, the breakup of Oscar D’ León’s Salsa Mayor is announced, where the bassist-singer in record time reassembles his orchestra dismantling the Renovación itself, while Leo Pacheco, together with the timbalero Alfredo Padilla, Henry Camba, William Puchi, Miguel Pacheco, José “Pipo” Pérez form: “Nuestra Orquesta La Salsa Mayor”, with whom he recorded three anthological albums: De frente y luchando (1978); Strong & Hots (1979); Sello de garantía (1979).
He continued his musical activity in the following years with La Crítica, Combo Venezuela and other groups.
“There was a lot of history left to tell, impossible to tell in this opportunity for reasons of space, although we hope it will be the beginning of a series of works on Venezuelan Salsa, which unfortunately we begin with the sad news of the death of Leo Pacheco, who left us with the fullness of his vocal cords and strength, which impressed the doctors on the day of his death when he resisted 8 hours with a heart attack while driving home in Ocumare del Tuy in his native Miranda state”.
For July 2023 the Lutier, Percussionist and friend Maestro Nico Monterola made a well-deserved tribute with a single titled:
“Tribute to Leo Pacheco”.
Sonero of the neighborhood and beloved example of father and friend.
Source: Jose “Cheo” Guevara of Asocosalsa 74
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