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Welcome everyone to Viva Peru! We are back celebrating Afro-Peruvian history month in London. The event will showcase Afro Peruvian traditional live music and dance, and closing jamming involving the audience on stage and the dancefloor. Join us and immerse yourself into this amazing culture and their people from Peru.
Sunday 25 June / Time:: 7pm – Midnight
18+ Entry only / ID required @ The Water Rats
328 Grays Inn Road, Kings Cross WC1X 8BZ , London
Early Bird tickets £7 in advance £8 after/ £10 OTD.
Tickets via https://fatso.ma/X03j or www.fatsoma.com/vivalatino
Gracias / Thanks for your support to local artists!
The opening show will be preceded by official debut of our Peruvian dance group MULATA , including traditional and upbeat genres from different Afro Peruvian traditions including those in the Peruvian coast, including festejos, zamacueca, lando and blended with other world music fusion and Afro-Latin American genres such as salsa and cumbia.
The live music will be fronted by ELI ROSA DE TRUJILLO one of the sweetest voices and most representatives emerging artists in town accompanied by JARANA DEL BARRIO featuring Kieffer Santander on Cajon and afro-peruvian percussion, Shama on Bass guitar and Gustavo Alcantara on Keyboards and arrangements playing traditional afroperuvian music with traditional instrument. The easiest place to start in order to properly appreciate Afro-Peruvian music is percussion, and specifically the cajón, which thoroughly dominates it — and has subsequently popped up all over the world in various international styles which become the symbol of Afro-Peruvian music based on Creole music, blended with African and Peruvian culture with deep roots.
The full band will bring the well known music from Peru playing the likes of Victoria Santacruz, Eva Ayllon, lucila campos, Zambo Cavero, Los Hermanos Vallumbrosio, Susana Baca among others and celebrating the centennial of Victoria Santa Cruz (1922–2014) a cultural icon in Peru. There, she made Black lives and history visible, spearheading a mid-twentieth-century staged resurgence of Black theatre, music, and dance in partnership with her brother, the famous poet Nicomedes Santa Cruz. After training in Paris at the University of Theatre of Nations, she founded and directed Black Theatre and Dances of Peru. She led the Peruvian cultural delegation at the 1968 Cultural Olympics in Mexico City and went on to become appointed founding director of the National Folklore Ensemble under Peru’s Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces in the 1970s and ‘80s–a remarkable accomplishment for an Afro-Peruvian woman at that time. Victoria Santa Cruz is perhaps best known worldwide for her rhythmic poem “Me Gritaron ‘Negra!’” (They Shouted ‘Black Girl!’), which has gone viral online as a Black feminist anthem.
Hosted & DJ Carlitos Nino will bring the best latin american music and peruvian hits to enjoy the night and the dance floor bringing the rhythms of Afro-Peru their roots, origins and transformation of sounds until modern days.
To close the night we will open the dance floor for a Zamba Malató Jam and everyone invited to Dance, sing and enjoy the rhythms of Peru and the african roots.
The origin of the name”zamba malató” came throughout the famous song serves as a refrain and creates a hypnotic effect on the listener. It is believed that “malató” is a transition of the word “mandato,” which means an order or command. Thus, the song can be interpreted as a call to dance and enjoy life.
Join us!
Speciall thanks for this event supported by https://waynemcgregor.com/