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 ...

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 ...

Kaypi, Perú—“This Is Peru” in the indigenous Quechua language—highlights Peru’s rich and diverse cultural heritage and traditional arts. For the webcast portion of the festival, we recorded ...

This Afro-Peruvian traditional music is lively, has complex rhythms, allows for improvisational riffs, and has contributed several important percussion instruments to the world, including the quijada ...

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 ...

For too many years, it seemed as if the only references to Peruvian music in this country were Andean sounds (like Simon & Garfunkel’s rendition of “El Condor Pasa” and New Age musicians’ love affair ...

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 ...

One of the best L.A. concerts of 2016 took place in a little space in Boyle Heights that is no longer there — a bar called the Whitt, with strong $3 margaritas and a guitar covered in tiny mirrors ...

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 ...

Kaypi, Perú—“This Is Peru” in the indigenous Quechua language—highlights Peru’s rich and diverse cultural heritage and traditional arts. For the webcast portion of the festival, we recorded ...