Where the Paletero Man Goes: A Journey of Neighborhood, Music, and Art with Lucky Diaz
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Take an immersive, multisensory journey into the world of ancient sound through live demonstrations of instruments from the pre-Columbian Americas. These performance-based demonstrations give an inspiring introduction to ancient instruments whose unique forms, scales and sounds provide a glimpse into the extraordinary cultures that created them. Learn about and experience the evocative sounds of little-known ceramic instruments like whistling bottles, polyphonic flutes, trumpets, whistles and rattles. Participants get to make music themselves with hand-built ceramic ocarinas.
Paletero Man: un viaje por el barrio, la música y el arte con Lucky Diaz
Agarra un puñado de monedas y prepárate para bailar por la calle. Únete a nosotros para una enérgica conversación mientras celebramos la alegría de la comunidad y la diversión del verano con Lucky Diaz, músico ganador del premio Latin GRAMMY y autor del sensacional libro ilustrado bilingüe, Paletero Man.
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