Ozawa Hall is a lofty, beautiful barn in the Berkshires -- or maybe a riff on a country church -- with natural wood and great acoustics. For the big concerts, the Tanglewood Jazz Festival throws open ...

The Colombian harpist Edmar Castañeda was born in Bogotá, and began playing at 13. A few years later, in the mid-1990s, he moved to New York, where he studied jazz trumpet. Then he returned to the ...

For Pavelid and Edmar Castaneda, father and son harpists from Bogotá, Colombia, overcoming obstacles with the harp has been a family tradition. This Sunday, Edmar, a rising international jazz artist, ...

Edmar Castaneda’s description of his harp’s sound isn’t something you’re going to find in a classical music – or classical mythology – text. “People always think of angels when they think of the harp, ...

Yale Bands and Creative Concerts Inc. will present a concert featuring Colombian jazz harpist Edmar Castaneda on Saturday, Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. in Morse Recital Hall, 470 College St. Castaneda will ...

Jazz artist Edmar Castañeda never had any doubt he could groove and do pretty much anything on the harp. “It’s really an honor for me to create this way of playing the harp,” said Castañeda, calling ...

The harp may be the least common instrument in jazz/improvised music—even the humble kazoo gets more of a run out. Dating back over 5,000 years to ancient Mesopotamia, the harp in its various guises ...

The harp seems such a cerebral instrument, the sound a mix of, light, lush delicacy, refinement and finesse. It is not often heard in jazz outside of large ensemble settings. Columbian ...

WILTON — A new, vibrant sound happens when Colombian harpist Edmar Castaneda takes to the Brubeck Room stage with his trio for Wilton Library’s Hot & Cool: Jazz at the Brubeck Room concert on Sunday, ...

Any jazz ensemble that includes a Colombian harp is striding into uncharted territory. But in the hands of Edmar Castaneda, the folkloric instrument, smaller and lighter than the European concert harp ...

NORTH ADAMS — Banjo auteur Béla Fleck, harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer Antonio Sanchez are immense artists in their own right, with decorated careers, but there was no sense of ego in how they ...