Rock al parque 2007.
Rock al Parque, Spanish for Rock at the Park, is a rock music festival that takes place in Bogotá, Colombia every year. The festival is very popular since it is a free entry event and it is sponsored by Bogotá's district government.
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History

1996-2000
In 1996, three simultaneous stages gave place to the second version. There were more than sixty national bands such as Dogma, Sagrada Escritura, Policarpa y sus viciosas, La pestilencia, Agony, among others. The foreign contributors were Lucy Bell and Los Tetas from Chile; Autenticos Decadentes from Argentina; Spias and Zapato 3 from Venezuela, Zopilotes from Peru; La Lupita from Mexico and Puya from Puerto Rico. Around 105.000 people attended the concerts.
The continuity of the festival was kept and as of year 2000 there were more international well-known artists. During that year artists such as Manu Chao from France and La mosca Tse Tse from Argentina stunned the audience with monumental performances. This year the festival goes under the motto "It is up to us that the music continues".

21st Century
For 2003 the festival continued and it was more commercialized than ever. After the success of Aterciopelados which became a Latin Grammy nominee, more local bands thought of Rock al Parque as a starting point to be discovered by the music entrepreneurs and the media as well. Nationwide broadcasting radiostations gave more importance to the events and committed themselves to the discovery and support of new artists. The band 1280 almas (1280 souls) celebrated its ten years with its fans. The closing events took place under a rainy day but this did not stop the 400.000 people that attended the concerts.
2005 saw the light of experimentation for the festival. The band Kraken opened the festival by playing with the Philarmonic Orchestra of Bogotá. For the first time the festival has an opening attendance of more than 400.000 people. The band Apocalyptica from Finland surprised the audience with its original performance and creativity on stage.
In 2006 among the bands that played were Fear factory, Horcas and Manu Chao
2007 was a uncommon year for Rock al Parque since the first festival's day was joined of huge hailstorm that made the fest be cancelled for that day.
Recovering the lost presentations, next Saturday (November 10th), bands that were canceled due the hailstorm matter, played at the same stage in a "sub-festival" called "Metal al Parque", because of the numerous heavy metal bands that showed during the day.
Among the groups playing at Rock al Parque 2007 are Aterciopelados, Agony and Ultrageno (as a tribute to National Rock Bands, closing the festival every day), Nepentes, Agent Steel, Coheed and Cambria, Have heart, Carajo, Nadie, Alerta, De bruces a mi, Sigma, Injury, Grito, Brujeria among others.