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Eva Ayllon is sometimes called Peru's Tina Turner. On Kimba Fa, the 30-year veteran takes all sorts of liberties with Afro-Peruvian music, adding in piano and sometimes a brass section, as well as ...
The Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet is set to release its 20th-anniversary recording, El Muki,on August 15. This album, the group’s 7th, commemorates their two prolific decades as champions for ...
Artistic director Corina Bartra brings her Afro Peruvian New Trends Orchestra to The Cutting Room in New York. Experience a blend of Afro-Peruvian jazz and Latin rhythms. Learn how to purchase ...
This year’s celebrations include live concerts not to be missed and parades and festivals for the whole family.
For almost 30 years, the Tradición Peruana Cultural Center has been promoting Afro-Peruvian culture and traditions through dance, music and art. Today, 16 months after moving from the Excelsior to its ...
Our staff is mourning the loss of María Catalina Robles Izquierdo, renowned Afro-Peruvian musician and music educator. She passed away on November 26. Born and raised into a prominent Black musical ...
On a Mission to Promote Afro-Peruvian Jazz: Pasache Music NY good business begins every days work with a focus upon their mission statement. Its generally a paragraph that simply and clearly states ...
LA QUEBRADA, Peru (AP) - Every year, Peruvians descended from African slaves come to La Quebrada to celebrate an adored black saint.
He and his sister Lydia — a teacher of Afro-Peruvian dance — quickly got involved in festivals and community celebrations with the hope of growing the presence of Peruvian music and dance in the Bay.
Very few people know about Afro-Peruvians, I guess they want to showcase, the Afro-Peruvians and Afro-Latinos, not only here in Houston but I think in all of the USA.
Huellas is an Afro-Peruvian dance theater performance co-created by Carmen Roman and Pierr Padilla Vasquez. It is inspired by the ancestral dance Son de los Diablos. The Son de los Diablos is the ...
San Francisco's Peruvian community planned to celebrate Peru's Independence Day with a flash mob style dance performance at Civic Center Plaza. For some people, rhythm is simply in the blood. That is ...