Concerto Espírito Nativo

Culture is a trip with a round-trip ticket. The Native Spirit is a combination of diverse materials and textures: the wood of the cajón and the donkey quijada from Peru, the Argentine bass drum, the fragility of the Andean charango and the speech of the guitar, the party of the trumpet and the ancestry of the harmonica Colombian. Everything comes together in a delicious combination of European, African and indigenous musical heritages, in the fabric that sustains the musical traditions of Latin America.

The Espírito Nativo concert covers a wide-ranging geography, from Argentina to Mexico, with stops on the coasts of Peru, the Andean plateau, the Venezuelan plains and the Caribbean islands. The chacarera goes hand in hand with the Peruvian festival, the altiplanic huayno gains momentum in the Venezuelan joropo and the Cuban son is also son in Veracruz – son jarocho! What do they say to each other? What are they looking for? O Espírito Nativo draws from the universality of musical traditions in Latin America to show us, in different accents, the various ways of telling our story.

Jacqueline Mercado – voice
Rui Meira – guitar, charango
Denys Stetsenko – violin
Iúri Oliveira – percussion