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 ...
Three local Peruvian female weavers creating colourful alpaca wool on the ground in the Sacred Valley. Obviously, you can’t travel to Peru right now, but if you’re itching to buy some of the country’s ...
Chicha is a form of Peruvian music that combines local folklore, South American beats and modern musical instruments. The recently released CD Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru explores ...
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 ...
Erhu (a two-stringed fiddle) player Li Ting embarked on a trip to Lima, capital of Peru, in September. After a flight of around 30 hours, she arrived at her destination: the Colegio Peruano Chino Juan ...
Artists from the United States, Scotland and Peru traveled to Amazonian communities as part of the “No More Blood Wood” campaign. The campaign hopes to raise awareness about the often-illegal origins ...