La Peña del SurCo *NEW LOCATION*

La Peña del SurCo is moving to a new location!!! Join us this September 4th in the Little Theater at Project MORE High School (440 S Park Ave). Ample FREE parking can be found in the lot across the street.

**If this event says sold out please still come! Eventbrite caps free tickets but we still have space!**

All Ages/All Welcome! Free Event! ADA Accessible

Join El SurCo, Tradiciones, and more for this month’s La Peña del SurCo.

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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.

La Peña del SurCo is 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 and intergenerational healthy communities. 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. Che Cafe Empanadas will be selling Argentine Empanadas! They will have drinks for sale but you are also welcome to bring your own!

El SurCo is a musical collective that blends guitars, violin, charango, bombo, and vocal harmonies to bring to life chacareras, cuecas, chamamés, gatos, and other popular and folk stringed music traditions from Argentina, Chile, and surrounding regions. 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 the Southern tip of the Americas. El SurCo is composed of Maxi Larrea (guitar, vocals, bombo), Jennie Gubner (violin, vocals, bombo), and Andres Pantoja (guitar, charango, bombo, vocals).

Tradiciones represents the culture of the Andes of Peru and the Afro-Peruvian music and dance. The members of Tradiciones are Peruvians and their music and dance traditions come with them. They learned it from their parents and in their villages. They now reside in Arizona, where they like to present and showcase a little of their land in the way of music and dance. For them as Peruvians, it is part of their identity.

For more information visit our website: https://www.elsurcotucson.com

This event was organized by University of Arizona Ethnomusicologist Dr. Jennie Gubner in collaboration with Sydney Streightiff and the members of El SurCo.

This event is made possible by generous support from: The Applied Intercultural Arts Research Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (AIAR GIDP) aiar.arizona.edu, School of Music, and Southwest Center at the University of Arizona, The Tucson Guitar Society, and The Culture of Peace Alliance Tucson.

For more information about this event series or if you are interested in sharing a song at a peña, please contact [email protected]