Don’t Cry for Me, Peru... Central to the music of the Andes presented here is the "Andean" flute. Traditionally made with clay, animal bones, or silver, the contemporary Sikus are constructed from ...

Editor's Note: To commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month this year, World Cafe is going on a musical tour of Latin America. Every weekday from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, we'll spotlight the music of a ...

When slave masters in colonial Peru banned drums, the slaves found new ways to preserve their outlawed rhythms. They used tables and chairs and almost anything that made noise when struck by a bamboo ...

When Juan de Dios Soto first arrived in California in 1990, he dreamed of a place where he could share the dance and sounds of his beloved birth country: Peru. Soto settled in San Francisco, where he ...

We recently noted considerable Instagram excitement over a brief video of a young Peruvian girl playing percussion on a donkey jawbone. The video was posted by the Afro-Peruvian band Novalima, who use ...

The music of Peru is a mixture of sounds and styles from Andean, Spanish, and African roots. The Andean people are known mostly for the wind instruments and melodies they produce, while the African ...