¡Mark your Calendars for the April 22 Earth Day Andean Interactive Music Event!
The event will feature a brief lecture and a live music and theatrical performance incorporating audience participation
- Title of event: Interactive Andean Concert:, Celebrating Andean Traditions and Earth Day.
- Native Andean instruments playing modern music like rock, fusion and techno
- Amado Espinoza can play up to 40 instruments from all around the globe and up to 5 instruments at the same time.
- Amado and his talented wife Karen Lisondra (actress/director/educator/yogini) will present an amazing performance to celebrate Andean traditions.
- Goals: to re-dignify native instruments within the scope of modern music for listeners of every culture to experience and enjoy, to transmit through the native instruments different cultural values, to use the power of music to impulse students to embrace (or return to) the cultural heritage of their ancestors and of others, while sharing a unique way to keep their traditions alive within our modern individuality, and to share the richness of his Andean traditions.
- More info: As the director of an indigenous instrument museum (Foundation Luis Ernesto de los Andes Marikina, Bolivia) Amado spent years collecting and studying the history and interpretation of these instruments. “To play these instruments is to keep memories alive, to acknowledge the wealth of knowledge of our ancestors, their rites, rituals and communities, and travel over time and space to connect with the lands and the cultures from which these instruments came.” After an unfortunate fire took these instruments as offering to the earth, Amado began a new stage in his life and career, composing and performing in urban centers in Bolivia.
Please enjoy this interview with the Artists for a preview of the event and some cultural context!
Hope to see you there!
This event is made possible in part by LAGO, CLACS KU, Quechua Club and KJHK.