Quite by chance I found a lovely image on an blogspot blog that you might enjoy looking at. It demonstrates the unlimited power of music to travel to all corners of the world.
The photo was originally published in December 2006 by Welcome Online and shows eleven ladies in colourful colonial costumes typical of the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Each lady has a huge flower in her hair; her dress is long, with a flouncy skirt, frilly bodice and puffed-up tops of sleeves. Five gentlemen standing in the background wear formal suits and bow ties; one of them is holding a white parasol – or is it a transparent plastic umbrella with a white rim?
This is the photo
and here's the caption/explanation of the photograph you can find at http://organizacionraizal.blogspot.com/2007/02/schottische-en-bogot.html (my translation from Spanish):"The Group of Dancers from the Island Colonies Resident in Bogotá won the unanimous approval of everyone who attended the Festival Colombia in the Park, which took place from 1st to 3rd December [2006] and consisted in a show of the various artistic and cultural groups resident in the Capital of the Republic. During the weekend, our performers in the [Bogotan venues of] Media Torta and Teatro Jorge Eliécer Gaitán captured their audiences with the "Schottische" [Scottish dance], the Mazurka, the Jumping Polka, the Pasillo and the Caribbean airs of the Calypso and the Reggae.
"As Dilia Robinson, one of the founders of the Organisation of the Raizal People Outside the Archipelago (ORFA), told Welcome Online, the group had been selected, despite its short existence, from many other – already professional – groups, for its novelty and the relevance of its scenography.
"The group consists of some 30 students from the Islands and is directed by Eugenia Robinson Davis and Lizeth Jaramillo Davis."
NOTE added by your blogger:
According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raizal), the "Raizals are a Protestant Afro-Caribbean ethnic group, speaking the San Andrés-Providencia Creole, an English Creole, living in the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, presently the Colombian San Andrés y Providencia Department, off the Nicaraguan Miskito Coast. They are recognized by the Colombian authorities as one of the Afro-Colombian ethnic groups under the multicultural policy led since 1991."
There is quite a bit more interesting information about the Raizal people to be found on that Wikipedia page.
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