La Peña del SurCo

A Latin American Folk Music Gathering Join us: All Ages/All Welcome! Free Event! ADA Accessible! NEW LOCATION: The Historic Y – Outdoor Courtyard 738 N. 5th Ave. La Peña del SurCo is trying out yet another new venue this November, so thank you for bearing with us! The event will feature El SurCo playing both folk and a new repertoire of Argentine tango music, and TucSon Jarocho. • Get parking info here: https://www.thehistoricy.com/location Please use street parking when possible to keep the parking lot available for guests with limited mobility. • Be sure to dress for the weather, since this event will be outdoors. • Patricia’s Cuban Kitchen will start selling at 5:30 p.m. • In addition, we will be building a community ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos and hosting a papel picado workshop. Please bring photos of your loved ones to add to the ofrenda! ______________________________________________________ What is a peña? A peña is an informal Latin American folk music gathering. Peñas are found in different forms across Latin America. Peñas are more participatory than a normal concert in that usually more than one musical group performs, group singing often occurs, and frequently community members are invited to share a song informally as part of the event. By design Peñas are intended to be inclusive community events open to music lovers of all ages. What is La Peña del SurCo? A cultural initiative led by ethnomusicologist and arts and health researcher Dr. Jennie Gubner and her Argentine/Chilean folk music trio El SurCo. Gubner’s current research interests involve leveraging intercultural participatory music practices to foster and strengthen age-friendly healthy communities and intergenerational spaces of diasporic belonging. La Peña del SurCo seeks to celebrate folk music traditions from Argentina, Chile and across Latin America while building community through intimate, acoustic, and participatory musical practices. Each month our events feature a 30 minute performance by El SurCo and another 30 minute performance by a rotating featured community group. Our events also feature a handful of individual performances from invited community members. We always have empanadas for sale! Drinks will be available for purchase and there is a water bottle filling station at the venue. Read more about this project and see our past event photo archive here. Featured October Performers: TucSon Jarocho is an intergenerational community of learning of the artistic traditions of son jarocho. They see themselves as an ensemble that seeks to engage meaningfully and purposefully with traditional musicians, artists and educators in Veracruz while living and playing in the Sonoran Desert. Their teachers are primarily Pablo Campechano Gorgonio from Los Tuxtlas and Karen García Muñoz from Tlacotalpan, but they embrace and would receive with love all knowledge and experiences from all jaraneras, jaraneros and jaraneres who wish to share with them. El SurCo is a musical collective that blends guitars, violin, charango, bombo, and vocal harmonies to bring to life chacareras, cuecas, chamamés, gatos, cumbias, tonadas, and other Latin American popular and folk stringed music traditions from Argentina to Colombia and beyond. The word surco means groove in Spanish, and references the furrows where seeds are planted in agricultural fields. A musical term with a rural subtext that speaks to the landscape where many of these styles emerged and continue to thrive, El SurCo (or The Southern Collective) transport their listeners into the diverse and vibrant musical ecosystems of South America. Current SurCo members are: Maxi Larrea (guitar, vocals, bombo), Jennie Gubner (violin, vocals, bombo), Esteban Hernández Parra (viola, bombo, vocals), Gabriela Ocadiz (vocals, guitar), and frequent invited guests. As part of their performance, El SurCo will also be presenting some of their new tango repertoire along with Kelsey Nussbaum. ___________ This event was organized by University of Arizona Ethnomusicologist Dr. Jennie Gubner with the support of the band members of El SurCo (Maxi Larrea, Esteban Hernández & Gabriela Ocadiz) and AIAR Graduate Student Researcher, Chris Zatarain. This event is made possible by financial and in-kind support from: The Applied Intercultural Arts Research Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (AIAR GIDP) aiar.arizona.edu, The School of Music, and Southwest Center at the University of Arizona, and The Tucson Guitar Society. For more information about this event series or if you are interested in sharing a song at a peña, please contact [email protected] Interested in supporting what we do? Please visit https://www.elsurcotucson.com/donate