I started Putumayo World Music in 1993 with the goal of helping introduce people to the music of other cultures.
6 months ago

The New Orleans-based CEO talks about the label's legacy and its first digital compilation, Acoustic Latino, released on Friday.
17 months ago

English diplomat Sir Roger Casement exposed the injustices of the rubber trade in the Amazon before meeting an untimelyd in his native...
29 months ago

Miguel Chasoy, a young Inga-Kamëntšá Indigenous man living in Putumayo, Colombia, started a business as an artisan and received a grant for...
31 months ago

Putumayo's 'Afro-Cubano' continues the breezy, tropical tour of the world, pouring new ingredients into their familiar aural elixir.
25 months ago

Communities are finding themselves threatened, abandoned by the Colombian state, and deprived of access to basic needs.
13 months ago

Colombia's peace agreement brings hope and concern to rural areas like Putumayo, dominated by the drug trade and controlled by the FARC.
100 months ago

Dan Storper is the founder and CEO of Putumayo, and the music his label releases reflects the musical tastes of the man.
133 months ago

In the Putumayo region of the Colombian Amazon, Segundo Meneses' daily routine took him to the Chufiya river, its banks verdant and waters...
25 months ago

A demonstration in March 2022 against Canada-based mining company Libero Copper and Gold in Mocoa, the capital of the Putumayo department in...
17 months ago