Los Mapaches Music Ensemble
Los Mapaches Youth Ensemble, founded at Berkwood Hedge School, includes more than 60 young musicians, ranging from kindergartners to high school students, who study and perform locally. They group plays traditional music from the Andes and other regions of Latin America.
Members of Los Mapaches are proficient on a variety of panflutes, including the paya, antara, and zampona. They also play the tarka (a wooden flute from the Andes) the quena (bamboo flute), stringed instruments, including guitar and charango, and percussion instruments from the Venezuelan and Colombian coasts. Vocal performances are primarily sung in Spanish.
For more information about their program, visit, www.losmapaches.org