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Kaypi Perú 1: Traditional Music and Dance

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 ...
NPR

Peru: Chicha, the electric pulse of cumbia

This is part of a special series, Cumbia Across Latin America, a visual report across six countries developed over several years, covering the people, places and cultures that keep this music genre ...
NPR

'Chicha' Music Expands out of Peru

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WFAE

Peruvian culture, food and music return to Camp North End

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

How Novalima modernizes and revives Peru’s African roots music

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 ...
Paste

The Curmudgeon: The Other Side of Peruvian Music

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 ...
Laweekly

How Underground Peruvian Music Changed the Sound of L.A.'s Latin Alternative Scene

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Peru’s José Luis Carballo finally gets the respect he deserves for creating a new way to play cumbia

This Sunday, José Luis Carballo will be the central figure of the “Tribute to Peruvian cumbia” segment included in the Peruvian Fest Chim Pum Callao LA 2022, at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown ...
New York Daily News

Afro-Peruvian music finds peña to call home in midtown Manhattan

After the Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet’s first set one recent rainy Saturday, Tutuma Social Club owner Santina Bari plugged the band’s CDs and quipped, “It’s much cheaper than opening up a ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Tourism in Peru is on the rise, and here's why

AMAZING COUNTRY. ADD THIS TO THE LIST OF REASONS. WHOA! WHY? NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC READERS NAMED PERU THE TOP INTERNATIONAL DESTINATION ANYWHERE. PARAGLIDING IS ALSO HOW YOU EXPERIENCE THE BEST VIEWS OF ...
PBS

Peru: Lima Original

Hosts Fernandez and Edgar meet in Lima, Pera to explore the different sights, sounds, and tastes. Hosts Fernandez and Edgar meet in Lima, Pera to explore the different sights, sounds, and tastes of ...