La Descarga 10+ Year Anniversary Fiesta

Forget about the siesta and get down to the fiesta!

Celebrating a decade of Cumbia style party in Melbourne.
Melbourne’s longest standing Cumbia roots band, La Descarga, threw a bone-shaking fiesta at Northcote Social Club on Sunday 23 May, 2021, celebrating ten+ years of deep-rooted tropical Colombian music.

This family friendly explosive afternoon took us into a tropical land of traditional music, dance and performance from the Caribbean and the Pacific coasts of Colombia, in the drumming and jamming hands of La Descarga with special guests and supported by The Electropical Orchestra and Paprika of Sabrosa Sound System (Brisbane).

La Descarga is led by interdisciplinary artist Jorge Leiva and features award-winner producer Oscar Vargas, Melbourne’s leading gaita players Felipe Paz and Andres Carreño and recognised dancer and choreographer Kathleen Gonzalez, with Maria Paula Espinoza and Camila Gonzalez.

The Electropical Orchestra, the extended family of La Descarga including Lauren Mullarvey (The Cactus Channel) and Stefano Ioele (The Pirateska Rebellion), Luke Dema (The Itchy Feet Pep Band) and Luisa Estupiñan also joined the party bringing psychedelia, electronica and dub to the Caribbean and Afro-Colombian grooves.

The party featured guest artists who have been part of La Descarga history, including Oscar Jimenez and Katherine Gailer (Amaru Tribe), Javier Rodriguez (Dela Caye), Mauro Gomez (Madre Monte), Coya Lee (The New Monos), Claudia Escobar-Vega and Mat Robb (Miss Colombia), Mat Robb, Paprika (Sabrosa Sound System), Mauricio Rivera (MR Video Art), Rodolfo Hechavarria Despaigne "Panga" (Ausecuma Beats), Joaquín Correa and our beautiful, gracious and colourful dancers Claudia Vidal, Maria Paula Espinoza and Kathleen Gonzalez.

Big thanks to all the artists and audiences for celebrating with us.

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