Yeison Landero: 2026 Community Celebration Performer
July 8, 2026 | 7:00 p.m. | Railyard Plaza (Water Tower)
The 2026 International Folk Art Market will begin with the artist procession and a performance by Yeison Landero (Colombia). In partnership with Lensic360, IFAM is honored to be the presenting sponsor at this community event.
Yeison Landero stands at the forefront of modern Colombian roots music as a leader of cumbia sabanera – the vibrant, accordion-driven sound born in Colombia’s Caribbean heartland. Landero delivers exhilarating, high-energy performances that fuse tradition with contemporary power, bringing Colombian sol music to new audiences worldwide.
Yeison is the grandson of the legendary Andrés Landero. widely revered across Latin America as “el rey de la cumbia.” Andrés Landero helped shape what the world now recognizes as cumbia, translating the Indigenous melodies of the gaita flutes into accordion lines, driving them with African-derived percussion, and giving voice to the lives of rural Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities.
