Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, Fruko, and Carmelo Torres

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Cumbia probably arrived in your life through a car stereo belonging to somebody older than you, and for years you had no idea the drums and the cane flutes on it came from a specific town on the Colombian coast where the same families have been playing that way for generations. This bill is that lineage, stacked. One act is the traditional gaita ensemble whose members are the direct inheritors of the form; another is the bassist and bandleader whose arrangements turned it into the sound of Colombian dancefloors in the seventies; the third carries the accordion tradition forward now. Three generations of one music on a Thursday, which basically does not happen north of the border. Expect actual dancing rather than watching — the older couples in the room will make that decision for everybody else within two songs. Music at 8:00 PM at the Ventura room on East Thompson Boulevard. If you have family who would understand what this lineup means, this is the show you call them about.