@BoliviaBella : Andean music usually focuses on telling a story, traditionally the legends of the Aymara, Quechua, and Tiahuanacota people, and each music style is also accompanied by a particular dance style (each dance tells a story too). It is most evident in our Carnaval, which takes place in Oruro each year in February or March.

@Music of Bolivia on Wikipedia : In 1965, Edgar 'Yayo' Jofré formed a quartet called Los Jairas in La Paz. With Bolivian folk music gaining popularity throughout the country, Jofré, along with Alfredo Dominguez, Ernesto Cavour, Julio Godoy, and Gilbert Favre used traditional music in modified forms to appeal to urban-dwellers and Europeans.

@Mundo Andino : : Zulma Yugar served on the jury for the UNESCO programme Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity and is credited with lobbying successfully for the Oruro Carnival to be proclaimed a masterpiece in 2001

@Viento Sur : Today I spoke with Adrian Villanueva of the bolivian band Kallawaya. Adrian has played Quena (bolivian flute) for over 30 years and now is considered a master.

@Culturas de los Andes : A llamera is an Andean girl who takes care llamas. These dances are very pretty, and were composed by the llameras who dance and sing while pasturing their llamas, or while traveling with the llamas along the lonely mountains. In the present time, it is notjust the mountain girls who sing and dance this, but also girls in every city of the Andes, in any major event or celebration.

@ Boleadora : Los Incas is a "classic" group popular in the 60s and early 70s. They recorded on European record labels an exciting variety of music from the countries of the High Andes. Los Incas also backed Paul Simon in his popular "El Condor Pasa" rendition which familiarized millions worldwide with the music of the Andes.

@Los Kjarkas : : El grupo los Kjarkas surgió en 1965, mas el tiempo demandaría varios años para que surja el mito. Aquel año, 1965, según la biografía contada por los propios fundadores, se revolucionaría el pensar y el sentir de todos los seguidores de la música boliviana, puesto que los Kjarkas comenzaron a imponer un estilo diferente, una nueva forma de interpretar la música autóctona.

@Transcultural Music Review : The instrument is so-to-say integrated and developed from then on into an icon that no longer refers to an acculturated instrument but rather a new, independent product, in this fall the charango as national instrument of Bolivia.

to be continued… probably