As a rule, things always sound more romantic in Spanish. So it goes with Tito La Rosa, Peruvian sound healer. Or, in other words, curandero de sonido. The 52-year-old musician comes down from deep in ...

The Mystic Warriors, dedicated to the preservation of Andean folk music, will use ancient flutes and panpipes in conjunction with contemporary instruments during their concert on Friday, Oct. 11, at ...

An album mixing Andean wind instruments, some played in a cave, with an electronic music beat? Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.

A different drum: an open-air platform at Viejo Sangayaico that makes a deep percussive sound when stomped on may have been a “sounding” dance-floor used to venerate a nearby mountain deity of thunder ...

Music is an integral part of many of life’s most important moments and is a powerful way to create communal bonds. But the significance of a musical instrument is not only found in the events where it ...

In a classroom at Ohio State University's Sullivant Hall, a guitar-strumming James Leow sang emphatically in Quechua, a language indigenous to the Andes Mountain region of South America. The dozen ...

Once a week, Michelle Wibbelsman, professor of Latin American Indigenous Cultures, and her group of students can be found in the Timashev Family Music Building at Ohio State, brandishing their ...

On a recent late afternoon, on the thirteenth floor of a high-rise apartment building near downtown Bogotá, the three members of Itinerante are rehearsing a classic piece of Colombian Andean music ...