upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
The Leeway Foundation in partnership with Girls Rock Philly, Son revoltura/Philly son jaracho, Casa Monarca and Juntos Co-Sponsers Desde el Fondo De La Tierra. Zenen Zeferino, who has been a pioneering force in Son Jarocho music for the last thirty years, will lead the Son Jarocho Workshop.
Son Jarocho is a 250-year-old regional folk music style from Veracruz, a Mexican state along the Gulf of Mexico. The music gets its name from the mixed descendants of African, European, and Indigenous people – inhabitants of southern Veracruz since Colonial times who came to be known as “Jarochos” – and reflects the cultural richness of its practitioners, consisting of a fusion of Spanish (primarily Flamenco), African (and Afro-Caribbean), and Indigenous elements. This tradition was born out of and continues to revolve around the concept of the Fandango, an all-night party featuring a tarima, a large wooden platform made for percussive dancing, around everyone gathers to dance, play and sing in a community setting.
Juntos is a Latino immigrant community led organization in Philadelphia fighting for our human rights as workers, parents, youth, and immigrants.
Workshop is free and open to all ages.