Celebrating their 40th anniversary season, Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 8pm at the State Theatre, Mexico's Los Folkloristas continue to introduce and preserve the traditional music of Mexico and Latin America.
Carrying a collection of more than 100 traditional and non-traditional instruments, and playing music from more than 15 countries and pre-Columbian Mexico, their performance takes the audience on a musical tour of Latin America. Tickets range from $20-30 (group, college student, and senior discounts available).
The group's broad repertoire explores the diversity of styles and original instruments from their home country. Whether playing traditional guitars and violins or dried butterfly cocoons, turtle shells, and theYaqui water drum, Los Folkloristas go back through time to present insights into the culture that produced the many distinct regional songs of Mexico and Latin America.
The seven-member group includes talented musicians José Avila (principal arranger), Olga Alanis (lead vocalist, percussion, strings), Adrian Nieto (violin, guitars, strings), Gabriela Rodriguez (vocalist), Efren Vargas Payan (electric bass), and Enrique Hernandez Huerta (strings, flutes, percussion).
The liberal translation of "Los Folkloristas"Â is the "folklore people."Â The term relates to this group, not simply as singers or instrumentalists, but as people who communicate their heritage, folklore, and culture through music with vocals and instruments. -- www.statetheatrenj.org
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