Llamada Parade is the most representative festival of Candombe
In Uruguay, Montevideo dressed up as a party with a new parade of Llamadas. teleSUR
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00:00 This is the traditional music for Trinidad and Tobago and the traditional customs of the carnival.
00:07 Every one of them is representing one of the many points of this culture
00:12 and rend and give homage to everything that is happening here in the flora, fauna and the country.
00:18 From here we are also announcing other stories of carnival. Let's go now to Uruguay.
00:23 There is another of the stories of these festivities.
00:27 The Montevideo Llamada Parade is the most representative festival of Candombe and Afro-Uruguayan culture.
00:38 Every year thousands of people approach Isla de Flores street, the southern neighborhoods and Palermo
00:45 to enjoy a unique party that emerges influenced by the different African rhythms
00:49 introduced by the slaves who arrived from Africa in the 18th century.
00:53 Llamadas in Uruguay is the most important popular event in the country.
00:59 Candombe is culture, tradition, history, much ancestry.
01:03 Many of us Candomberos lived by the Candombe and respect it as a way of living.
01:09 The thousands of attendees were thrilled with a party that lasted five hours
01:14 and where 22 comparsas played and almost 2,500 artists paraded.
01:19 I lost my car and I go out of Las Llamadas, but today I'm happy.
01:25 I'm happy but sore because the nicest thing there are Las Llamadas.
01:30 It is part of culture and really today I spent a better day.
01:33 But I'm happy just the same because I feel the drums on my skin because it's part of that culture.
01:39 You feel it, your skin stand up, the drums.
01:43 I live in this neighborhood since I was born.
01:46 In, for example, what was Dominguera, which already today does not go out,
01:51 the comparsa missing the school, but on Sunday the drums always there.
01:56 Candombe is magic, love, color, it's everything.
02:01 You have to feel it to live it. It's imposing, it's beautiful.
02:05 Under very hot weather and just after 8 o'clock at night,
02:08 the African Candombe comparsa started the parade.
02:12 The drums begin to ring and the dance completed the party.
02:16 Waiting all year for this moment that for us is the best.
02:21 Culture, a feeling, everything. From a girl, always, always.
02:26 It's the party of people, of African descendants,
02:30 the most beautiful party of blacks, whites, lovers, everything.
02:35 I love Llamadas. You don't know what it is, what it feels like.
02:40 They have to come and enjoy it. It's feeling, it's having to be and feel, nothing more.
02:45 Let's go to Lanzarivo, which is undoubtedly the best comparsa.
02:50 We will bring the first prize home.
02:52 The second part of the Llamada parade was postponed by a rain threat,
02:56 but will continue in the coming hours.
02:59 When this happens, Montevideo will be a party again.
03:02 The candombe and the drums will sound strong
03:05 and the magic of the Afro-Uruguayan culture will be present as it has been for 300 years.
03:12 [Drumming]