Feast and music have been key elements of black culture of Valle del Patia (Cauca, Colombia), even before that day in 1749, when the free brown Fabian Hernandez gave the curia El Guabito ranch, to built a village in it (the current Patia). Since that time, the place has become a reference of freedom and pride for its inhabitants, who have had to endure, throughout history, stigmatization and adjectives that payanesa society -white and mestizo-, has deployed to them. In this article, after presenting fundamental aspects of the history of this community, from an analysis of several old bambucos, a native rhythm also known as patiano bambuco or currulao, born in the slave plantations of the Great Cauca at the eighteenth century, a recovery of key aspects of their culture and thought is done.