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XOCHI CUICATL: An Interactive Concert of Mesoamerican Music
March 24 @ 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
$5 – $25
Come and bring your whole family to this interactive concert and workshop with ancestral Mesoamerican instruments!
This concert is a demonstration of the sounds and the history of Indigenous breath string and percussion instruments of Mesoamérica and México, along with flower songs in Nahuatl, Purepecha, and Spanish.
Participants will experience and interact with the sound, resonance and silence of breath, string, and percussion instruments and voice, most of which have never been experienced in an interactive context like this. The oldest instruments are radio carbonated to 100 B.C., and continue to be played daily by modern day practitioners. It is crucial that our living history not only gathers dust behind glass cases in a museum, but is understood, experienced, and shared with all of our senses!
MUSICIANS:
Christopher Garcia is a composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and lecturer who has presented in 28 countries and 5 continents since 1990. He has participated as a featured composer or soloist with numerous ensembles e.g., indigenous, jazz, world, chamber, and symphonic orchestras, specializing in drum sets, marimbas, percussion instruments of north and south India, and Indigenous instruments of Mesoamerica and Mexico. He continues to study, work, and present with anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnomusicologists, historians, modern-day practitioners, museologists, and researchers at every venue imaginable in order to learn and share the most up-to-date information available about Mesoamerican and Mexican history & culture.
Yolanda Delgado Garcia is a native of del Valle del Yaqui in Sonora, MX, and grew up in Ciudad Obregon Sonora where she attended the Universidad de Sonora Altos Estudios and studied Spanish literature with the Yaqui on one side and the Seri on the other by Bahia Kino. She moved to Los Angeles, California in 1983 and had the opportunity to learn and work as a bilingual media reporter for El Sol de Los Angeles and La Opinión, covering community services and events for Spanish speakers in the city and county of Los Angeles. She continues to be in demand as a translator for different musical organizations translating listening guides and voice-over narrations.