Cha Wa + Héctor Guerra — World Music Festival Chicago Finale!
Schedule
Sun Oct 09 2022 at 03:00 pm
Location
Navy Pier, 600 East Grand Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 | Morton Grove, IL
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3pm. All Ages. FREE!Part of the 2022 World Music Festival Chicago — Featuring 10 consecutive days of FREE live, global music, with 34 bands (including three DJs) representing 22 countries and spotlighting 10 local music groups. September 30th - October 9th throughout the city. Visit www.worldmusicfestivalchicago.org for full schedule and info.
Cha Wa recently released its third album, the Grammy-nominated My People, on Single Lock Records as the follow-up to 2018’s Grammy-nominated Spyboy. But the true history of the music goes back much further.
The first documentation of Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans dates back to the late 19th century. These were African-American men who paraded on the city streets on Fat Tuesday morning and St. Joseph’s Night in celebratory groups, playing handheld percussion like glass bottles, tambourines and cowbells. They shouted and chanted in a unique dialect that scholars have tried to explain the roots of, but never quite agreed on. “Cha Wa” is a traditional Mardi Gras Indian shout from which the band took its name; so is “jock-a-mo-fee-nah-nay”, familiar to music fans from the enduring tune “Iko Iko.” Some suggest that Black Masking Indian phrases can be traced to Native American languages, which is a distinct possibility since the culture is meant to pay tribute, in song and spirit, to the Native American groups that gave shelter to fleeing slaves.
www.chawaband.com
Héctor Guerra’s music and divergent movement, which began in the streets of Madrid with his collective Pachamama Crew back in 2000, is defining and impacting a generation. It is one without prejudice that incorporates new flavors and fearlessly fuses different visions that may not have previously seemed possible. It embodies many different worlds within the same world. Héctor Guerra is an exciting mix of styles. He is the definition and the arrowhead of the Global Bass movement, a trend that is growing every day around the world,
based on the mixing of world music and root music with sounds of urban music (trap, afrobeats, dancehall, and hip-hop lyrics), the flavor of cumbia, the hope of reggae, the mysticism of the Andes, and
others. He was born to a Bolivian father and a Spanish mother, in Minas de Rio de Tinto, Huelva, Spain. At the age of 18, he was sponsored by DJ Lord of Public
Enemy, who he accompanied on tour in 2003 at major international festivals in Spain.
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Where is it happening?
Navy Pier, 600 East Grand Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, ,Chicago,IL,United States, Morton GroveEvent Location & Nearby Stays: