Sones de Mexico Ensemble
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Sones de Mexico Ensemble is a Chicago
folk music group that specializes in the Mexican musical tradition known as son
. Sones de Mexico was nominated for a Latin Grammy for Best Folk Album of 2007 for its Esta Tierra Es Tuya (This Land Is Your Land) disc. It was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album for the album. http://www.sonesdemexico.com/index2.html
The group is Chicago’s premier folk music ensemble specializing in Mexican "son," including the regional styles of huapango, gustos, chilenas, and son jarocho, among others.
The group formed in 1994 to keep the tradition of Mexican ‘son’ alive in its many regional forms. As a performer and recording artist, the ensemble has developed and popularized many original arrangements of Mexican traditional tunes touring mostly in the Midwest, East Coast and Southern U.S. Some of its original work has experimented cross-culturally with symphonic, Irish, folk, C&W, jazz, and rock music, though never abandoning its roots in Mexican son.
Also a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, the ensemble is committed to teaching. The ensemble members reach out to young and old with many of their educational programs nationwide.
The group consists of Victor Pichardo (music director), Juan Dies
(CEO and producer), Zacbé Pichardo, Lorena Iñiguez, Javier Saume-Mazzei, and Juan Rivera
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Chicago
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folk music group that specializes in the Mexican musical tradition known as son
Son (music)
The Son cubano is a style of music that originated in Cuba and gained worldwide popularity in the 1930s. Son combines the structure and elements of Spanish canción and the Spanish guitar with African rhythms and percussion instruments of Bantu and Arará origin...
. Sones de Mexico was nominated for a Latin Grammy for Best Folk Album of 2007 for its Esta Tierra Es Tuya (This Land Is Your Land) disc. It was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album for the album. http://www.sonesdemexico.com/index2.html
The group is Chicago’s premier folk music ensemble specializing in Mexican "son," including the regional styles of huapango, gustos, chilenas, and son jarocho, among others.
The group formed in 1994 to keep the tradition of Mexican ‘son’ alive in its many regional forms. As a performer and recording artist, the ensemble has developed and popularized many original arrangements of Mexican traditional tunes touring mostly in the Midwest, East Coast and Southern U.S. Some of its original work has experimented cross-culturally with symphonic, Irish, folk, C&W, jazz, and rock music, though never abandoning its roots in Mexican son.
Also a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, the ensemble is committed to teaching. The ensemble members reach out to young and old with many of their educational programs nationwide.
The group consists of Victor Pichardo (music director), Juan Dies
Juan Dies
Juan Dies is the co-founder and executive director of Sones de Mexico Ensemble, a Chicago folk music group that specializes in the Mexican musical tradition known as son. Sones de Mexico was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2007. Dies has degrees from Earlham College and Indiana...
(CEO and producer), Zacbé Pichardo, Lorena Iñiguez, Javier Saume-Mazzei, and Juan Rivera
Juan Rivera
Juan Rivera may refer to:*Juan Rivera early Spanish explorer of North America*Juan Rivera , major league baseball outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers*Juan Rivera, wrestler, better known by his stage name Savio Vega...
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