By Carlos Passage
Seven-time Grammy and Latin Grammy nominees and three-time winners Grupo Niche have revealed the dates for their Pachanguero Tour world tour for the second half of 2024.
The summer/fall leg will take Niche through Europe, the Caribbean, the United States, Mexico, Colombia and Panama.
In Europe, the orchestra created by maestro Jairo Varela in Bogota, Colombia 40 years ago, already performed on July 11 at the spectacular Cruilla Festival in Barcelona, where they shared the stage with some of the most important names globally in tropical music, urban music, Latin jazz, pop and rock including Argentines Maria Becerra and Trueno, salsa legend Oscar D’Leon, Chucho Valdes: Iraqere 50, Olga Tañon, Canadian star Avril Lavigne, British Pet Shop Boys and the legendary Smashing Pumpkins.
After Cruilla Festival, Niche will play three shows in Boston, Newark and Chicago and then cross the Atlantic again to perform at the Milano Latin Festival on July 26.
On July 31, Niche will close the Noches del Botánico, the event that was recently awarded at the ‘Premios de la Academia de la Música’ in Spain as the most outstanding concert festival of the Madrid summer.
The Noches del Botanico started on June 4 and closes with Niche on July 31. During these two months, the impressive festival has had names so beloved by the public as Tom Jones, The Pretenders, The Cult, Julieta Venegas, the prodigious jazz star Laufey from Iceland, Take That and the American superband Toto.
Dallas, Los Angeles, New York and Cancun are other key cities that Niche will visit in September, October and November, but its date of September 28 is one of the ones that has generated the most expectations among its fans residing in Colombia. That day, Niche will perform at the MoviStar Arena in what has been called La Fiesta Mas Grande de Colombia (The Biggest Party in Colombia).
The December dates are yet to be confirmed by the group’s Management office, which is run by the daughter of its founder, Yanila Varela.
Niche’s current hit on tropical radio throughout the hemisphere is an inspiring collaboration, “La Primera Vez,” with Colombian actress and singer Juliana Velazquez.
