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The Valle de Punilla (Córdoba province’s Punilla valley) puts on its best clothes to stage Latin America’s most imposing folklore show. Here the town of Cosquín rings among the loudspeakers of the main stage of this venue in the Córdoba hills.
Little by little it turned into an emblem of the town and grew to become Latin America’s most important folklore music festival.
Almost 50 years have elapsed since the first National Folklore Festival took place. With the simple aim of promoting this culture a group of citizens organized a small folklore meeting that featured singing, dance and poetry. Little by little it turned into an emblem of the town and grew to become Latin America’s most important folklore music festival.
Not content with its growth in Argentina and Latin America, the festival reached out to Europe and Asia. Numerous delegations of these continents came to the town bringing their own art with them. The charm of the festival was so powerful that every month of October since 1975 the Japanese city of Kawamata stages an event called “Cosquín in Japan”, during which Japanese amateurs interpret native Argentine dances.
The size of the audiences increased steadily year after year , so that in 2001 the town decided to build a new stage. It has a surface of more than 800 square meters and is one of the largest in Latin America.
The festival doesn’t take place only on the stage. The whole town partakes of the event in its streets and squares, staging street shows featuring dances, singing and native food during these nine moons (this name refers to the nine days of the duration of the festival).
