Family Concert
Los Mapaches
Saturday May 10, 2008
$10 adults, $5 kids - 7pm
Come join Los Mapaches for another fabulous evening of music from Latin America for the whole family. We dance with the drums on the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia, and bring you high into the Andes mountains with parading zampoñas. With slides from our 2007 trip to the Andes!
Los Mapaches was founded in 1998 as a spontaneous after-school class with teacher and Latin American musician Lydia Mills. One day, Lydia brought zampoñas (panpipes) to school and began teaching traditional songs of the Andes. Children and parents alike were drawn to the music, and Los Mapaches enrollment soared. Over time, the group began performing at schools, libraries, retirement homes, and cultural centers around the Bay Area.
Today, Los Mapaches includes more than forty young musicians, ranging from kindergartners to high school students, who study and perform locally with Lydia. The group's focus has expanded to include traditional music not only from the Andes, but from other regions of Latin America as well. Members of Los Mapaches are proficient on a variety of panflutes, including the paya, antara, and zampoña. They also play the tarka (a wooden flute from the Andes), the quena (bamboo flute), and percussion instruments from the Venezuelan and Colombian coasts. Vocal numbers are sung in Spanish, with some bilingual arrangements as well.
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