HOUSE #1635

Performance time: 2:30 pm

Site contact: Samantha Dubendorf
Phone: (301)-260-2331 | sdubendorf@bgf.org

Playing across America:  A bi-lingual Adventure through Music and story (Melissa Foss):
Take a journey across the Americas through song. In this performance we’ll learn about instruments that have shaped the sonic landscape of folk and popular music traditions across Latin America. We’ll get an introduction to the Charango, a small Andean stringed instrument widespread throughout Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina. We’ll also experience songs from the tradition of Canto con Caja, an ancestral music passed on through oral tradition across Andean cultures of the north and north-west of Argentina.