Latin American folklore music for people from 4
Marko Simsa and the group "Pacha Manka"
Latin America is part of the “new world” to the South and Central America. There is Chile, from where the musicians of our concert come. Chile is a narrow, very long -stretched country that extends from the bottom of South America to Peru and is limited on its entire east side by the Pacific Ocean. In the west, this narrow country becomes very high mountains, the Andes, which are almost 7000m high.
One can well imagine that there are different lifestyle habits in this country of extreme height differences than with us and thus also a different music tradition.
Marko Simsa tells about life in and stories from South America. We learn that people wear "ponchos" there and we get to know musical instruments that some may have never seen before. For example, the rhythm on the "Bombo" (large drum from a hollowed out tree trunk) is beaten on the "Bombo" covered with a goat skin. The rattles made of goat tag nails are also fascinated and the "Charango" is a plucked instrument with ten strings (five double strings) and curved resonance body, which once consisted of the tank of a belt animal and is now made of wood.
We hear the story of the fox and the clever mouse, manufacture a poncho with a colored pattern and of course there are also dances together at our concert, because who can stay calm with these Latin American rhythms for a long time ...?!
Pacha Manka - four musicians from Chile and Peru around the founder and director Luis Parra
Marko Simsa - narrator
