Latin American folklore music for people aged 4 and over
Marko Simsa and the group "Pacha Manka"
Latin America is the part of the "New World" that includes South and Central America. This is where Chile is located, where the musicians in our concert come from. Chile is a narrow, very elongated country that stretches from the lowest tip of South America to Peru and is bordered on its entire eastern side by the Pacific Ocean. In the west, this narrow country is bordered by very high mountains, the Andes, which are almost 7000m high.
It is easy to imagine that in this country of extreme differences in altitude there are different ways of life to ours and therefore also a different musical tradition.
Marko Simsa tells us about life in and stories from South America. We learn that the people there wear "ponchos" and we get to know musical instruments that some of us may never have seen before. For example, the rhythm is beaten on the "bombo" (a large drum made from a hollowed-out tree trunk) covered with a goat skin. The rattle made from goat toe nails is also fascinating and the "charango" is a plucked instrument with ten strings (five double strings) and a curved resonating body, which was once made from the shell of an armadillo and is now made from wood.
We listen to the story of the fox and the cunning mouse, make a poncho with a colorful pattern and of course we dance together at our concert, because who can sit still for long with these Latin American rhythms...?!
Pacha Manka - four musicians from Chile and Peru around the founder and director Luis Parra
Marko Simsa - narrator
