8th National Festival of Children's Music Bands

This festival is held every year in chinchiná caldas, a town surrounded by coffee plantations and beautiful landscapes, this place is cold and rainy, it is near the snow park and cataloged as the electric city of Colombia because there are two hydroelectric plants, the Ínsula and the Esmeralda.

Every year this national festival of children's music bands takes place, where delegations from the different departments of Colombia participate, in the 8th edition in which we participated as a social and cultural corporation "Crescendo" representing the Valle del Cauca, there were also the bands of Sopetrán and Santa Rosa de Osos, for Antioquia; Rondón and Pachavita, for Boyacá; the Obra Salesiana del niño Jesus, for Bogotá; Villa Pinzón and La Peña, for Cundinamarca; Mundo Nuevo de Pereira, for Risaralda; Leyva, for Nariño; Yotoco for Valle, and Villamaría and San Juan Bautista de La Salle of Manizales, for Caldas. (The image corresponds to the badge of my best friend because I could not find mine)

This time we stayed in a hotel and shared rooms and beds, depending on the bone structures of each one we made groups of 5 to 6 people to occupy a room with two beds, many of the parents slept in the corridors of the hotel or in other parties, while the older boys had the responsibility for the rooms. Despite the limited space, the people in charge of the place were very friendly and always there to help us.

The food this time was in a restaurant (do not ask me the name because I do not remember) and honestly I did not like it very much, but people took good care of us and they also lent us the place for quick changes of clothes before the parade and presentations in the stage. For the parade that year the mothers of the children of the corporation made costumes representative of the Cali fair, as seen in the images and the whole community liked it. During the 3 days that the event lasted we made friends, not only of the other bands but of chinchiná, because the joy of its people filled every space and filled us with good vibes.

The next installment will be the last of my participation in children's or youth bands, so I hope you like it and remember that George Sand said: "One is nearing the end of the journey, but the end is a goal, not a catastrophe."