Grupo Raíz in Performance and Conversation About Nueva Canción [Behind the Scenes Documentary]

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Grupo Raíz in Performance and Conversation About Nueva Canción [Behind the Scenes Documentary]

Activist-musicians Rafael Manríquez, Quique Cruz, and Hector Salgado formed Grupo Raíz to affirm and introduce Chilean nueva canción to the USA's California Bay Area and beyond. As musicians who honed their poetic and musical talents at peñas (or "café concerts") of their native Chile, they established La Peña, a community arts center in Berkeley, California. The goals of the group were twofold: to make known the music and culture of the Latin American people, and to give support through their music to the resistance movement in Chile and to liberation movements in Latin America and throughout the world. For more music from Grupo Raiz, please visit: http://www.folkways.si.edu/grupo-raiz/amaneceres/latin-world/music/album/smithsonian Smithsonian Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smithsonianfolkwaysrecordings Twitter: https://twitter.com/Folkways Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smithsonianfolkways The content and comments posted here are subject to the Smithsonian Institution copyright and privacy policy (www.si.edu/copyright). Smithsonian reserves the right in its sole discretion to remove any content at any time.

3 min 19 sec

music folk "Woody Guthrie" "Pete Seeger" Smithsonian Folkways old-time non-profit