upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024

upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024

Leeway Co-Sponsors Desde el Fondo De La Tierra Son Jarocho Workshop

Saturday, May 21, 2016 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
[ Juntos - 1537 S 6th St ]

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.

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