Cleer interviews the members of the acclaimed Colombian band, Doctor Krápula, known for both their music and social activism.

Christhian and Cleer teach us how to dance Colombian Cumbia to the famous song, "La Pollera Colorá."

Catalina Garcia, lead singer of the Colombian music group, "Monsieur Periné," talks a bit about the group's origins and influences.

This segment explores the extent to which the musicians at the Mono Núñez festival combine formal training with natural instinct to make their traditional Colombian music.

Do the rules and restrictions associated with entering a contest like the Mono Núñez affect the musicians' artistic freedom? In this segment, our host and musicians examine that question.

Our behind-the-scenes look at the Colombian Mono Núñez music festival continues with an interview with a group who plays Afro-Colombian music and, has opted to perform but not to enter the festival's contest.

An itinerant concert at the Mono Núñez gives people who could not otherwise attend the festival the chance to experience some of its music and festivities.

Our host at the Mono Núñez festival in Colombia continues to interview people who have come to the festival from many countries, expressing his desire to create an integrated musical product: Colombian music with influences from many different countries and cultures.

As the festival continues, we meet a group of Colombians who talk about how they've modernized the themes of the Andean music they play. We also meet an Argentinian who shares about the types of songs she performs.

At Colombia's Mono Núñez music festival, native Colombians and foreigners alike share their deep love for traditional Colombian music.

Singing in Nasa Yuwe, their native language, is one way in which Colombia's indigenous Nasa population strives to preserve and make more visible their language, culture and customs.

Colombians at the Mono Núñez Festival in Cali talk about their objectives for attending it, among them the importance of preserving traditional Colombian rhythms in a period in which their mainstream popularity is waning.

Native Colombians speak about the importance of taking pride in their traditional music as well as its influences as they look forward to celebrating it at a festival.

Singer Cecilia Villar Eljuri, considered one of the top female guitarists of her time and recognized for her socially-conscious lyrics, was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and raised in New York by multicultural parents. In this candid interview, she talks about the ways in which her exposure to different places, cultures and types of music has influenced the evolution of her music.

In the electronic press kit for singer, Eljuri's latest album, Fuerte, she talks about her background and musical influences, her producer, her early music days and the ways in which her current work differs from her past music.