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A Close Up
A close up of Pepe Santana playing the pan flute and drum.
A Close Up of the Pan Flutes
The audience gets a close up of Pepe Santana's pan flutes as he explains the importance of them in Andean Music.
A Heartbeat
Pepe Santana explains to the audience the importance of the drum-the heart beat of a song. It helps us to feel the song not only just hear it.
After the Interview
Pepe, Francisco and I pose at Pepe's Stanhope home after the interview. I left the interview with a completely different view on what culture means and how its changing in our modern-day world. I left with more appreciation for traditional musicians…
An Andean Song
Pepe Santana sings an Andean song. It was the first time that the audience heard Pepe sing a song in an indigenous language. There was a great silence in the room making it known that the audience was moved by the new and unfamiliar music they were…
Andean Dance Music
Members of the audience were up and dancing during Pepe Santana and Grupo INKHAY’s concert in November 2018 in Highland Park, NJ. Members of the audience from the cultures being presented were quick to teach others who were not from those cultures…
Andean Innovation
The Charango is an indigenous adaptation of the European guitar, make with materials available from the local environment. Instead of wood, the body is made from an armadillo shell.
Armadillo Shell Charango
The back of a charango, an armadillo shell. This shows just how resourceful the indigenous peoples of the Andes were and are. They used nature to make their music.
Bolivian Instrument
Bolivian instrument
Charango
There are several sizes of Charango played in Andean music.
Charango and Pipes
The staples of Andean Music. A genre of music that has survived so many years. In pre-columbian South America music was thought of as sacred. It was used in agricultural and religious rituals and wars. Thanks to musicians like Pepe Santana, we can…
Chullo
Pepe Santana wears a chullo hat. This is an iconic hat worn by indigenous peoples of the Andes for thousands of years. The different colors, patterns and weaves are used to differentiate between communities. …
Dual Pipes
Pepe Santana demonstrates a style of music where a single musician plays two different flutes at the same time, through the two sides of their mouth.
El Charango
Pepe plays the charango. This is another staple in Andean Music. It is a small guitar made up of ten strings. The back of a charango is the shell of an armadillo.
Flyer for Raíces Music Concert Series - Pepe Santana and Grupo INKHAY - Andean folkloric music
Flyer for the concert in the 2018 Raíces Roots Music Concert Series held in November of 2018. This concert series sought to bridge cultures through the universal language of music, while at the same time bringing together NJ based culture bearers,…
Grupo INKHAY
INKHAY is a Quechua verb that means "to tend the fire". The members of the group have chosen this name to symbolize their commitment to keep alive, expose and spread the beautiful music of the Andes mountains of Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador.
Indigenous Roots, European Influences
INKHAY's music, primarily, represents elements of South American indigenous culture when they perform wind and percussion music. They also include European musical elements when they play stringed instruments like the guitar, mandolin and the well…
INKHAY - “Keep the Fire Alive”
INKHAY's commitment is to keep alive the fire of their vibrant Andean Traditions.
Instruments of the Andes - Charango
Pepe Santana playing the charango.
Instruments of the Andes - Drums
Drum patterns played in Andean folkloric music keep a strong pulse in the music, like the heartbeat of the songs.
Instruments of the Andes - Guitar and Violin
The influence of European colonization is reflected in the folkloric music of the Americas, even in Indigenous music, as is seen with the use of European instruments like the violin in Andean folkloric music.
Instruments of the Andes - Strings
There are many kinds of stringed instrument played in Andean folkloric music, each with its own distinctive sound. The variety of stringed instruments illustrates the evolution of culture and arts as the guitar ws changed and adapted to the materials…
Keeping the Fire Alive - Pepe Santana and Grupo INKHAY
Pepe Santana and Grupo INKHAY stay committed to keeping the fire of their indigenous Andean traditions alive by sharing their talents and knowledge and educating their audiences.
Large Pan Flutes
These large pan flutes are one of the staples of Andean Music. Andean Music traditionally consists of only two types of musical instruments,wind and percussion.
( https://www.pura-aventura.com/pothole/all-you-need-to-know-about-andean-music)
( https://www.pura-aventura.com/pothole/all-you-need-to-know-about-andean-music)
More Charango
Pepe Santana plays the charango