           
"The music was
just exquisite -- powerful, moving, truly soul-cleansing."
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Lisa Faithorn, Walnut
Creek, CA
"All
the musicians ... represent the purest traditional sound."
-East Bay Express
“… the most beautiful, soothing, and soul-healing music.”
-Avalon Bay News
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Lalo
Izquierdo, Afro-Peruvian cajón
Born
in Lima, Perú, Lalo Izquierdo is a founding member of the most important
Afro-Peruvian Cultural Association Perú Negro, a well-known
ensemble that has traveled the world promoting Black Peruvian culture. He
is a master percussionist, choreographer, dancer, and folkloric innovator.
During his fifteen-year stay in Venezuela, he collaborated
artistically with the Central University of Venezuela. He returned to
Perú
as professor of the National Superior School of Folklore, Jose Maria
Arguedas, to begin a series of cultural exchanges among national and
international colleges and universities. His most recent work took him to
a European Cultural Festival in Holland, as choreographer and teacher of
Perú Negríto, where he conducted percussion and dance workshops.
Lalo
has been teaching dance for the past 30 years. His outstanding
performances have been recently acclaimed in artistic events such as the
2001 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, People Like Me,
and Collage
of African Cultures.
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