Cali Underground

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Cali Underground
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Cali Underground is an annual rock music festival celebrated in Cali, Colombia. Bands as Angelcorpus, Ultimos Romanticos, Astreas Domains, Desdenia, Deadline and Orus have played at this festival.

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History

The first running of this festival was in 2004 with the presence of only a few hundred visitors before a few relatively unknown bands, but at the following year the number of visitors increased to several thousands. After obtaining the support of the Secretaria de Cultura y Turismo de Santiago de Cali and private enterprises like Parquesoft [1] and Deeplunar [2] the festival drew more visitors.

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References

  1. Parquesoft
  2. "Deeplunar". Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2020-07-11.