Santiago Trujillo, director of the Idartes art institute, told EFE that the first day Saturday "will be dedicated to classics of rock, heavy metal and hardcore, the second day will be for punk rock, reggae and some electronic inventions and the third will be all fusion music - rock-pop and rock-indie".u00a0According to the official, in Rock al Parque's 18th year it has become an embedded part of the city "for fans of alternative and independent rock".

Trujillo said, "We'll have the daddy of rock in Spanish, Charly Garcia", who will close the 2012 event Monday onstage at Simon Bolivar Park on the Colombian capital's west side.u00a0Other crowd-pleasers are here from Spain like Siniestro Total, "a group that fashioned and fed the punk movement in Bogota and Medellin in the 1980s and has a big fan base here", Trujillo said.