How Cusica Fest is trying to rebuild the Venezuelan music industry

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Cusica Fest, a music festival in Caracas, Venezuela, is building momentum for renewed creativity and expression in the country that has experienced ongoing political crisis.

"We basically created an e-commerce portal so people could legally support national bands," says Cusica co-founder Maria Fernanda Burbano., a website publishing music news and reviews; not long after, they started operating a venue in El Hatillo. As they produced more and more live shows and their following grew, they knew they wanted to eventually launch a larger-scale festival.

For Banhart, that audience included much of his family watching him play live for the first time ever — so he did so wearing a dress. In 2015, around the height of the crisis, Rawayana's members made the difficult decision — like so many other Venezuelans — to leave the country, relocating between Mexico City and Miami. But theback home still affects them, says Montenegro, adding extra hoops to jump through for things other artists might not struggle with as much, like obtaining visas and passports needed to tour.

 

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