GALA Hispanic Theatre will be holding a workshop and audition for local union and non-union actors for an upcoming production of Kumanana! An Afro-Peruvian Musical Revue, an original musical revue ...
Eva Ayllon is sometimes called Peru's Tina Turner. Her 30-year career has taken her in many musical directions, but she remains best known for her renditions of Afro-Peruvian music. That's a style ...
Afro-Peruvian music was born of slavery and, over the centuries, has been on the verge of slipping into obscurity on many occasions — overlooked by record labels, shrugged off as marginal. Yet it has ...
Can you believe it’s practically Halloween? Although if you’ve been visiting big box stores like Costco, it’s been Halloween ...
Women dance “La Marinera” at the Charlotte Peruvian Festival in this undated photo. This story first appeared as part of WFAE's EQUALibrium newsletter, exploring race and equity in the Charlotte ...
If you follow world music, it’s a familiar narrative: A once proud musical tradition is in danger of disappearing from its native land in the face of modernization and/or social or political strife.
When most Americans think of Peruvian music, they think of the high Andes Mountains’ Quechuan music, marked by the fluttery sound of the bamboo zamponas pipes, the trebly, 20-string miniature guitar ...
A few weeks before she died in 1983, the great Peruvian singer and composer Chabuca Granda sent a note to Susana Baca, whom she'd befriended and mentored when Baca was a fledgling singer from a poor ...
As poets, musicians, dancers, choreographers, and historians, Victoria and Nicomedes Santa Cruz led the resurgence of Afro-Peruvian arts in the 1960s. Their efforts to restage and reconstruct ...