Music lovers are invited to bring lunch, join friends and relax at the lively oasis to enjoy a taste of New York’s “underground” music scene.
Noon - 12:30pm
Gimagua, made up of twin brothers Guillermo and Gabriel Ariza, strum and step their way through rumba, flamenco, cumbia, and Afro-Cuban rhythms. Identical twins and real showmen, the duo is originally from Columbia. Both are guitarists and singers and have yet to meet a crowd they cannot win over. Gimagua has received wide media coverage and appeared on Sabado Gigante, El Show de Cristina, Despierta America on Channel 11, and various other programs in New York City.
12:30- 1:15pm
Sol, the “La Argentinita” dancer and singer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, has performed with the Metropolitan Opera for the past two seasons in Zeferelli's production of La Traviata. Since 2006, Sol has been on tour throughout the US, Mexico, France, and Spain with numerous flamenco companies. Recently, she received a scholarship for a summer intensive project at Jacob's Pillow and from the Cristina Heeren Foundation to study flamenco song in Seville. Cristian Puig, who accompanies Sol, was born in Buenos Aires to flamenco dancer and guitarist parents. He studied guitar classically in the conservatory and learned flamenco from his father. He has composed and worked with Pilar Rioja, Andrea Del Conte Danza Espana and Flamenco Puro, and others, and continues to perform, compose, instruct privately, and sing in the traditional and modern flamenco style.
1:15 – 2:00pm
Andean flute player Edgar Paucar created the group Raices in 1992. With members from Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, the group has the desire to express feelings of nostalgia and their longing for their homelands. They have performed at Symphony Space, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, Town Hall, the National Museum of the American Indian, and numerous festivals. Edgar has been the acting grand master of the Inti Rami festivities in New York for the last few years.
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