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The 13th NY Son Jarocho Festival presents an album release show by Oaxaca-based ensemble Tapacamino Colectivo Musiquero, whose music draws on multiple influences across Latin America. The album, titled "Vientos del Cerro," was recorded in Mexico and Argentina and produced by multi-instrumentalist Gregorio Quiros. Come enjoy the smooth and rapid beats of Tapacamino Colectivo Musiquero's music. It'll be a fandango, or a dance between two parties -- this wickedly talented band and you!

"Vientos de Cerro" features Grammy winner Jarocho poet Fernando Guadarrama and guest artists from the Son Jarocho tradition who weave the sounds of this musical style from Veracruz with other Latin rhythms and instruments, including the marimba de Chonta from Colombia.

"Vientos del Cerro" is the ensemble’s second LP, recorded between Mexico and Argentina, and produced by Gregorio Quiros. In this album, Grammy winner Fernando Guadarrama proves to be the greatest reference of Jarocho poetry accompanied by Quiros in the musical direction with his marimba and other instruments, and guests from the Jarocho tradition who perform traditional songs. Quiros and Guadarrama have been working together for 10 years. In Vientos del Cerro they mix South American rhythms with Son Jarocho, creating musical landscapes that range from Afro-Colombian marimba to melodies and instruments from the Argentine Andes. Son Jarocho is the common thread for these two artists who developed their own compositions focused mainly on various water goddesses from African and Mesoamerican cultures that have syncretized with various saints of the Catholic religion. The album is a prayer to the Mexican Chalchiutilicue, the African Iemanja, and the European Candelaria. Guadarrama with his verse and Quiros with his South American musical influences, manage to transport us to a modern mythological world, intertwining rhythms, religions, and cultures from across the American continent. 

Get ready to dance across the streets of Buenos Aires, walk the high mountains of the Andes, and delve into rhythms of Mexico!

Artist Bios:

Tapacamino Colectivo Musiquero bring to the stage the shared rhythms and sounds of Latin America. They describe their music as "a synthesis of party, rumba and fandango throughout the continent."

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Fernando Guadarrama is a musician, poet, and lyricist of the Son Jarocho and fandango traditions. Originally from Córdoba, Veracruz, he has lived in the city of Oaxaca for thirty-six years. He is a member of Grammy-winning Conga Patria Son Jarocho Collective for their collaboration with Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra in the album “Fandango at the Wall in New York.” Guadarrama’s poetry has appeared in Mexico’s national media and he has participated in international spoken word events such as the Jornadas Cucalambeanas de Las Tunas in Cuba; La Peña de Berkeley, San Francisco; the International Troubadour Week held in Puerto Rico: and at the concert "An evening of Fandango and Afro Latin Jazz", with Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at the Symphony Space, New York. Since 2005, he has directed and coordinated in Oaxaca the Taller de sones y verseda Tapacamino, today Tapacamino Colectivo Musiquero, a cultural space with which he produced the album "La Coronela" in 2013, with the support of the National Institute of Fine Arts. "Chichicastenango" (2017-2018), was a self-published album produced in Oaxaca, Mexico, and Buenos Aires, and contained songs and poems accompanied by the music of Argentine percussionist Gregorio Quiros. Guadarrama was the winner of the 2020 "Strengthening of Traditional Music" contest, convened by the Secretariat of Arts and Cultures of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Gregorio Quiros is a marimba player and multi-instrumentalist singer, composer, and scholar of traditional Latin American music. He completed his studies in Argentine folk percussion at the Higher Institute of Music of the City of Buenos Aires. After graduating, he began to travel methodically through various Latin American countries (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Mexico) researching and learning about traditional music. Between 2015 and 2019 he was Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory in the city of Buenos Aires. In 2012, he made a trip to the Colombian Pacific with a scholarship from the Colombian Ministry of Culture, where he trained as a traditional marimbist and recorded his first solo album titled “Currulao Al Sur.” In 2015 he was selected by the Ibermúsicas program as a representative of Argentina in the IMERSAO LATINA residency of the Embaixada Cultural in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The result of the residency was an album titled “Forza da Paz”. At the beginning of 2018 he returned to Mexico with an exchange scholarship where he produced and recorded “Placa Placa Coatepec,” with musicians of traditional marimbas from Senegal, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Colombia. In 2019 Quiros settled permanently in Mexico. Since then, he has performed at various festivals in Quintana Roo, Mexico City, Veracruz, Nuevo León, and Michoacán. In 2022, he completed his first tour of the US, performing in New York and New Haven, and teaching workshops on Latin American music.

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This project is supported by funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, Statewide Community Regrants Program (formerly the Decentralization program) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and administered by Flushing Town Hall; and is made possible (in part) with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts. Additional support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the CUNY Mexican Studies Institute, and Son Jarocho NY.