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- Members:
- Quique Cruz - Strings/Flutes
Jeremy Allen - Bass/Percussion
Maria Fernanda Acuna - Venezuelan Cuatro/Percussion
John Calloway - Piano, Flute
Ely Samuels - Saxophone/Clarinet - Genre:
- World Jazz
- Hometown:
- San Francisco Bay Area
Quijerema Set 2
12/11/09 Quijerema w/ Classical Rev @ Red Poppy Set 2, On a cold Friday night in San Francisco, we m
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to Charith for streaming last weeks performance at Red Poppy. Charith
Premawadhana - Viola, Mads Tolling - Violin, Anthony Blea - Violin,
Lewis Patzner - Cello. Set 1
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Classical Rev and Quijerema set 1.1:@ Red Poppy Art House recorded on USTREAM. Classical
Quijerema This is the last performance of our year-long residency at the Red Poppy Art House. We will perform works from our three albums, Tinta Verde, Archeology of Memory, and the forthcoming Kakri, which features the Venezuelan bandola llanera and incorporates audacious string arrangements performed by Classical Revolution.
Audacious strings ready their passports for Latin America
Location:Red Poppy Art House
Time:8:00PM Friday, December 11th
Quijerema This is the performance not to be missed! Join Quijerema and special guests, venerated venezuelan musicians Luis Rodriguez and Mora Diaz, for an exciting evening of tambores, canto y arepamania.
Tres campanas, dos cumacos y una charrasca - the Soul of Venezuela
Location:Red Poppy Art House
Time:8:00PM Friday, November 13th
Quijerema
Quijerema will be performing works from their forthcoming Album Kakri, featuring the Venezuelan bandola llanera; Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi an innovative Latin American jazz fusion experiment, and Tinta Verde, their soundtrack to the film Pablo Neruda Presente!
Featuring special guest - the gran mama of poesi...a - Avotcja Jiltroncillo reading selected works of Pablo Neruda.
About Quijeremá:
Founded in 2002, Quijeremá is a performing arts quintet that celebrates and expands the cultures of the Americas through original music, poetry and multi-media art installations. Members of Quijeremá play more than thirty instruments. They have performed worldwide and appeared on national and international radio and television programs.
Quique Cruz (Chile): strings, winds, percussion
Jeremy Allen (US): bass, percussion
Maria Fernanda Acuña (Venezuela): percussion, Venezuelan cuatro
Elijah Samuels (US): saxophones, clarinet, percussion
John Calloway (US): piano, flute
“A potent mix of Latin American folk music and jazz!”
—Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle
www.quijerema.com
www.facebook.com/Quijerema
Quique Cruz is a Chilean-born musician and composer who has performed, taught and recorded Latin American music for more than thirty years. Cruz has recorded numerous albums with artists such as Jackson Brown, William Ackerman, Strunz and Farrah, and has produced albums for the Chilean ensemble Grupo Raiz.
Maria Fernanda Acuña specializes in a variety of drums and Latin American percussion instruments. Her unique approach plays a major role in defining the sound of Quijeremá. Acuña has worked with artists such as Alex de Grassi, Rafael Manriquez, Jackeline Rago, The Venezuelan Music Project, The Latin American Sax Quartet, and Eduardo Mendelievich of Creative Voices.
Jeremy Allen is a multi-instrumentalist, educator, composer, producer, and audio engineer. Specializing in traditional Venezuelan music, he is also adept at the music of other Latin American and Caribbean countries. Allen has worked and recorded with Jackeline Rago & the Venezuelan Music Project, Maria Marquez, Lichi Fuentes, Kachimbo with David Peñalosa, Julio Clemente's Orquesta Original, guitarist Alex de Grassi, and hip-hop groups Fiyawata and Empireal with Cava Menzies.
Elijah Samuels is an up-and-coming talent in the Bay Area music scene. He is a saxophone and clarinet player and arranger, and has recently been collaborating in Afro-Cuban music projects with master musician John Calloway.
John Calloway is a multi-instrumentalist performer, composer, arranger, and educator specializing in Cuban popular, Latin, and Latin jazz music. He has worked with renowned artists such as Israel “Cachao” Lopez, Max Roach, Omar Sosa, John Santos, Pete Escovedo, and Manny Oquendo. Calloway also currently works with his own band, Diaspora, as well as with the Bay Area Afro-Cuban All-Stars and the John Santos Quintet.
Avotcja Jiltroncillo
Avotcja has been published in English & Spanish in the USA, Mexico & Europe, and in more Anthologies than she remembers. She is an award winning Poet & multi-instrumentalist who has opened for Betty Carter in New York City & Peru's Susana Baca at San Francisco's Encuentro Popular, played with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bobi & Luis Cespedes, John Handy, Sonido Afro Latina, Dimensions Dance Theater, Black Poets With Attitudes, Bombarengue, Nikki Giovanni, Los Angeles' Build An Ark, Dwight Trible, Diamano Coura West African Dance Co., Terry Garthwaite, Big Black, The Bay Area Blues Society & Caribeana Etc. Shared stages with Sonia Sanchez, Piri Thomas, Janice Mirikitani, Diane DiPrima, Michael Franti, Jayne Cortez, & with Jose Montoya's Royal Chicano Air Force & is a Bay Area icon with her group Avotcja & Modupue.
http://www.avotcja.com/
A night of latin american music, poetry & jazz
Time:8:00PM Saturday, October 10th
Location:The Jazzschool
Quijerema
Quijeremá and Rafael Manriquez lead you through a journey of the music, politics and poetry of the Chilean landscape. Starting in the 1960s with Violeta Parra, the Chilean song went through a shift wherein politics and art combined to form a style uniting folk, classic and contemporary musical forms. This new movement ...mixed Latin American instruments such as pan pipes and strings instruments with classical instruments. For tonight's concert, Quijeremá will be joined by Rafael Manriquez, the Bay Area's foremost representative of the Chilean song.
About Quijeremá:
Founded in 2002, Quijeremá is a performing arts quartet that celebrates and expands the cultures of the Americas through original music, poetry and multi-media art installations. Members of Quijeremá play more than thirty instruments. They have performed worldwide and appeared on national and international radio and television programs.
Quique Cruz (Chile): strings, winds, percussion
Jeremy Allen (US): bass, percussion
Maria Fernanda Acuña (Venezuela): percussion, Venezuelan cuatro
Elijah Samuels (US): saxophones, clarinet, percussion
John Calloway (US): piano, flute
“A potent mix of Latin American folk music and jazz!”
—Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle
www.quijerema.com
www.facebook.com/pages/Quijerema/5237143
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HEYyXM49cQ
Quique Cruz is a Chilean-born musician and composer who has performed, taught and recorded Latin American music for more than thirty years. Cruz has recorded numerous albums with artists such as Jackson Brown, William Ackerman, Strunz and Farrah, and has produced albums for the Chilean ensemble, Grupo Raiz.
Maria Fernanda Acuña specializes in a variety of drums and Latin American percussion instruments. Her unique approach plays a major role in defining the sound of Quijeremá. Acuña has worked with artists such as Alex de Grassi, Rafael Manriquez, Jackeline Rago, The Venezuelan Music Project, The Latin American Sax Quartet, and Eduardo Mendelievich of Creative Voices.
Jeremy Allen is a multi-instrumentalist, educator, composer, producer, and audio engineer. Specializing in traditional Venezuelan music, he is also adept at the music of other Latin American and Caribbean countries. Allen has worked and recorded with Jackeline Rago & the Venezuelan Music Project, Maria Marquez, Lichi Fuentes, Kachimbo with David Peñalosa, Julio Clemente's Orquesta Original, guitarist Alex de Grassi, and hip-hop groups Fiyawata and Empireal with Cava Menzies.
Elijah Samuels is an up-and-coming talent in the Bay Area music scene. He is a saxophone and clarinet player and arranger, and has recently been collaborating in Afro-Cuban music projects with master musician John Calloway.
John Calloway is a multi-instrumentalist performer, composer, arranger, and educator specializing in Cuban popular, Latin, and Latin jazz music. He has worked with renowned artists such as Israel “Cachao” Lopez, Max Roach, Omar Sosa, John Santos, Pete Escovedo, and Manny Oquendo. Calloway also currently works with his own band, Diaspora, as well as with the Bay Area Afro-Cuban All-Stars and the John Santos Quintet.
About Special Guest Rafael Manríquez ...
Rafael Manríquez has been one of the leading exponents of Latin American music in the Bay Area for more twenty years. Originally from Santiago, Chile, Rafael brings us the gift of both his exquisite voice and his remarkable skill on Latin American string instruments—from the guitar and charango, to the cuatro and tiple. His lyrics reflect the struggles and hopes of all the people of this continent. The Smithsonian Institution recently honored Rafael by releasing an entire album of his work on their label, Folkways.
Rafael has performed throughout the Americas and Europe, and his music has been recorded on more than ten albums. Since moving to the Bay Area in 1977, he has continued his work as a performer and a teacher: He has been an active leader at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, teaching classes in guitar and New Latin American Song, as well as directing the La Peña Community Chorus. Rafael was also the musical director and lead singer of Grupo Raíz, an internationally acclaimed Chilean ensemble that recorded three albums and toured extensively in the United States and abroad.
www.rafaelmanriquez.com
$12 - $15 admission. Doors open at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.
Developing the Chilean New Song Movement
Time:8:00PM Friday, September 25th
Location:Red Poppy Art House
Quijerema
Vancouver Latin American Film Festival
ARCHEOLOGY OF MEMORY - VILLA GRIMALDI / Film & Quijeremá Performance
The film will be presented as part of a multimedia event that will include the performance of the musical suite Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi by Claudio Durán (aka Quique Cruz) and the quintet Quijeremá, and... an exhibition of accompanying gigantographics.
http://www.vlaff.org/node/2467
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Vancouver Latin American Film Festival
Time:7:00PM Friday, September 18th
Location:Vancouver Community College (VCC)
Quijerema
We are pleased to announce that the documentary film ARCHEOLOGY OF MEMORY: VILLA GRIMALDI will air locally (SF BAY Area) on KQED as well as on the PBS program Global Voices. It will air on other PBS stations throughout the Country as well so check your local listings.
The film follows Quique Cruz as he creates his maste...r work, a multimedia art piece to heal wounds inflicted by state sponsored torture of the Pinochet regime. The film features music by Quijerema and is traveling the international festival circuit and garnering critical acclaim.
ON KQED (PBS) Archeology of Memory (#225) Duration: 56:46 Stereo DVI TVPG
KQED 9HD
Mon, Sep 14, 2009 -- 11:00 pm
with a repeat showing on
Tue, Sep 15, 2009 -- 5:00 am
http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/index.js
Global Voices (ITVS)
Archeology of Memory
Premieres October 11, 2009 on PBS WORLD
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/globalvoices/arc
For more information about the film, visit http://www.archeologyofmemory.org/the_fi
If you missed it at a film festival you can watch it at home
Time:11:00PM Monday, September 14th
Location:Your house
Quijerema Enjoy the trailer to the documentary film ARCHEOLOGY OF MEMORY: VILLA GRIMALDI
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http://www.pbs.org/itvs/globalvoices/archeologyofmemory.html A powerful, intense and imaginative musical journey, ARCHEOLOGY OF MEMORY follows exiled Chilean musician Quique Cruz from the Bay Area to Chile ...
Quijerema
Tonight the Red Poppy features music from resident artists Quijeremá’s Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi, an innovative Latin American jazz-fusion experiment. This musical suite, created by Quijeremá’s Quique Cruz, is a companion to a various multimedia work, including a documentary film in which Cruz attempts to co...me to terms with his imprisonment during the military dictatorship of Pinochet in Chile. Combining Latin American folk traditions with jazz influences, Archeology is a journey of musical exploration as well as a singular artistic proposal by a musician who looks to the abstract world of music as a site for healing.
About the Film:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/
www.archeologyofmemory.org/the_film.html
“This remarkably delicate and wrenching film featuring Bay Area musician and multimedia artist Quique Cruz's return to Chile, where he was incarcerated and tortured under Pinochet's regime, manifests the universal power of art to heal.”
—Mill Valley Film Festival
About Quijeremá:
Founded in 2002, Quijeremá is a performing arts quartet that celebrates and expands the cultures of the Americas through original music, poetry and multi-media art installations. Members of Quijeremá play more than thirty instruments. They have performed worldwide and appeared on national and international radio and television programs.
Quique Cruz (Chile): strings, winds, percussion
Jeremy Allen (US): bass, percussion
Maria Fernanda Acuña (Venezuela): percussion, Venezuelan cuatro
Elijah Samuels (US): saxophones, clarinet
John Calloway (US): piano, flute
“A potent mix of Latin American folk music and jazz!”
—Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle
www.quijerema.com
www.facebook.com/pages/Quijerema/5237143
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HEYyXM49cQ
Quique Cruz is a Chilean-born musician and composer who has performed, taught and recorded Latin American music for more than thirty years. Cruz has recorded numerous albums with artists such as Jackson Brown, William Ackerman, Strunz and Farrah, and has produced albums for the Chilean ensemble Grupo Raiz.
Maria Fernanda Acuña specializes in a variety of drums and Latin American percussion instruments. Her unique approach plays a major role in defining the sound of Quijeremá. Acuña has worked with artists such as Alex de Grassi, Rafael Manriquez, Jackeline Rago, The Venezuelan Music Project, The Latin American Sax Quartet, and Eduardo Mendelievich of Creative Voices.
Jeremy Allen is a multi-instrumentalist, educator, composer, producer, and audio engineer. Specializing in traditional Venezuelan music, he is also adept at the music of other Latin American and Caribbean countries. Allen has worked and recorded with Jackeline Rago & the Venezuelan Music Project, Maria Marquez, Lichi Fuentes, Kachimbo with David Peñalosa, Julio Clemente's Orquesta Original, guitarist Alex de Grassi, and hip-hop groups Fiyawata and Empireal with Cava Menzies.
Elijah Samuels is an up-and-coming talent in the Bay Area music scene. He is a saxophone and clarinet player and arranger, and has recently been collaborating in Afro-Cuban music projects with master musician John Calloway.
John Calloway is a multi-instrumentalist performer, composer, arranger, and educator specializing in Cuban popular, Latin, and Latin jazz music. He has worked with renowned artists such as Israel “Cachao” Lopez, Max Roach, Omar Sosa, John Santos, Pete Escovedo, and Manny Oquendo. Calloway also currently works with his own band, Diaspora, as well as with the Bay Area Afro-Cuban All-Stars and the John Santos Quintet.
$12-$15 admission. Doors open at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.
Villa Grimaldi in Three Cantos, An Innovative Musical Suite
Time:7:30PM Friday, May 15th
Location:Red Poppy Art House
Quijerema
Tonight the Red Poppy features music from resident artists Quijeremá’s CD Tinta Verde (Green Ink) in a concert combining the poetry of Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda with original musical compositions written by Quijeremá for the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Chilean bard.
Founded in 2002, Quijeremá is a performing... arts quartet that celebrates and expands the cultures of the Americas through original music, poetry and multi-media art installations. As reviewer Willy Lizarraga writes, Quijeremá “manages to render a whole constellation of South American rhythms into a jazz idiom. The cueca from Chile, tango from Argentina, waltz at its most Latin, landó from Peru, joropo from Venezuela, huaino from the Andes fuse into a musical continuum whose identity, no matter how jazzy, always remains rooted in the deep South, not of the U.S. but of the Americas.”
Members of Quijeremá play more than thirty instruments. They have performed worldwide and appeared on national and international radio and television programs.
Red Poppy resident artist Michael Warr’s literary awards include a Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award and a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship for Poetry. He is the author of We Are All The Black Boy and co-editor of Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry From Chicago’s Guild Complex. He performs his poems regularly with Nefasha Ayer. Michael counts Pablo Neruda among his early poet heroes.
More about Quijeremá:
Quique Cruz (Chile): strings, winds, percussion
Jeremy Allen (US): bass, percussion
Maria Fernanda Acuña (Venezuela): percussion, Venezuelan cuatro
Elijah Samuels (US): saxophones, clarinet
John Calloway (US): piano, flute
Quique Cruz is a Chilean-born musician and composer who has performed, taught and recorded Latin American music for more than thirty years. Cruz has recorded numerous albums with artists such as Jackson Brown, William Ackerman, Strunz and Farrah, and has produced albums for the Chilean ensemble Grupo Raiz.
Maria Fernanda Acuña specializes in a variety of drums and Latin American percussion instruments. Her unique approach plays a major role in defining the sound of Quijeremá. Acuña has worked with a variety of artists including Alex de Grassi, Rafael Manriquez, Jackeline Rago, The Venezuelan Music Project, The Latin American Sax Quartet, and Eduardo Mendelievich of Creative Voices.
Jeremy Allen is a multi-instrumentalist, educator, composer, producer, and audio engineer. He specializes in traditional Venezuelan music as well as the music of other Latin American and Caribbean countries. Allen has worked and recorded with Jackeline Rago & the Venezuelan Music Project, Maria Marquez, Lichi Fuentes, Kachimbo with David Peñalosa, Julio Clemente's Orquesta Original, guitarist Alex de Grassi, and hip-hop groups Fiyawata and Empireal with Cava Menzies.
Elijah Samuels is an up-and-coming talent in the Bay Area music scene. He is a saxophone and clarinet player and arranger, and has recently been collaborating in Afro-Cuban music projects with master musician John Calloway.
John Calloway is a multi-instrumentalist performer, composer, arranger, and educator specializing in Cuban popular, Latin and Latin jazz music. He has worked with renowned artists such as Israel “Cachao” Lopez, Max Roach, Omar Sosa, John Santos, Pete Escovedo, and Manny Oquendo. Calloway also currently works with his own band, Diaspora, as well as with the Bay Area Afro-Cuban All-Stars and the John Santos Quintet.
“A potent mix of Latin American folk music and jazz!”
—Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle
$12-$15 suggested donation
Soundtrack to the Documentary Film ¡Pablo Neruda! ¡Presente! With a Poetry Reading by Michael Warr
Time:7:30PM Friday, April 24th
Location:Red Poppy Art House
Quijerema
This evening the Red Poppy presents a unique collaboration between resident artists Quijeremá and the vocal ensemble Creative Voices. The performance, directed by Eduardo Mendelievich of Argentina, will explore the intricate rhythmic and harmonic arrangements of the renowned Venezuelan group Quinteto Contrapunto.
QUIJER...EMÁ:
Quique Cruz (Chile): strings, winds, percussion
Jeremy Allen (US): bass, percussion
Maria Fernanda Acuña (Venezuela): percussion, Venezuelan cuatro
Elijah Samuels (US): saxophones, clarinet
John Calloway (US): piano, flute
Founded in 2002, Quijeremá is a performing arts quartet that celebrates and expands the cultures of the Americas through original music, poetry and multi-media art installations. As reviewer Willy Lizarraga writes, Quijeremá “manages to render a whole constellation of South American rhythms into a jazz idiom. The cueca from Chile, tango from Argentina, waltz at its most Latin, landó from Peru, joropo from Venezuela, huaino from the Andes fuse into a musical continuum whose identity, no matter how jazzy, always remains rooted in the deep South, not of the U.S. but of the Americas.”
Members of Quijeremá play more than thirty instruments. They have performed worldwide and appeared on national and international radio and television programs.
“A potent mix of Latin American folk music and jazz!”
—Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle
Quijeremá’s composer, Quique Cruz, is a Chilean-born, award-winning musician and composer who has performed, taught and recorded Latin American music for more than thirty years. He plays a variety of Andean flutes including sikus, antaras (panpipes) and kenas. He also plays guitar and other stringed instruments such as the Venezuelan cuatro and bandola and the Bolivian charango and ronroco. In addition, he has created multimedia productions involving theater, dance and visual arts. Cruz has been awarded a prestigious Oshita Composer Fellowship from the D’jerassi Foundation; a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; and a Artist in the Community Fellowship, from the California Arts Council Foundation.
Cruz has recorded numerous albums with artists such as Jackson Browne, Strunz and Farrah, William Ackerman, and has produced albums for the Chilean ensemble Grupo Raiz. He has traveled nationally and internationally and has made significant crossovers into the realm of popular North American music, working with artists such as Kenny Loggins, Mimi Fariña, Pete Seeger, and Sting, among others. In 2000, he released Tatamonk with Alex de Grassi, a CD that unites jazz with Andean musical art forms. Recordings made in Chile include Santiago del Nuevo Extremo Live (2002) and Charango: Autores Chilenos (2003).
Cruz recently co-directed and co-produced the award-winning documentary film Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi. The documentary will be aired in September of this year on PBS, and is currently being featured in national and international film festivals around the world.
CREATIVE VOICES is a Bay Area a cappella chamber choir that seeks to provide intimate, vibrant choral performances that introduce audiences to the transformative properties of vocal music. They feature rarely performed and previously unperformed choral works organized in collaboration with artists from other disciplines.
Creative Voice’s Eduardo Mendelievich was born and raised in Argentina, where he was educated in the European musical tradition. Mendelievich is thankful for the inspirational influence of his early maestros, Carlos Lopez Puccio and Virtu Maragno, and for the chance to meet and learn from the late Robert Shaw during his last year at his Choral Institute. Mendelievich recognizes diverse musical influences that include Josquin Despres, Meredith Monk, Gustav Mahler, Miles Davis, Gyorgy Ligetti, and Arnold Schönberg.
$12-$15 suggested donation.
Exploring Venezuela’s Quinteto Contrapunto
Time:7:30PM Saturday, March 21st
Location:Red Poppy Art House
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