Rueda: Bolivian type of Valley Music

This is a traditional Bolivian music type that is from Tarija and is played with the erke (which is very long trumpet made from many lengths of sugar cane combined together, with a bull’s horn at the end) and a caja which is a small hand drum. Sometimes the bass drums abnd guitars are used, but they are not traditionally part of the music. The name which refers to the wheel or circle came from the manner in which it is danced. The dancers form a circle and hold hands; they then spin in one way and upon completing then circle, spin back in other way.