Peruvian music featured on the Comstock this Saturday
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Mon, 08/08/2022 - 7:27am
Event Date:
August 13, 2022 - 6:00pm The historic Comstock town of Silver City, Nevada is the venue for another free, family-friendly public event on Saturday, August 13. Kantu Inka will perform music of Peru and the Andes on the town's outdoor stage, the Silver Pavilion, from 6pm-7pm.
Bring a chair or blanket and a picnic and enjoy a summer evening of music and dancing in the park with Carlos Ocampo and Julie Lozada Ocampo of Kantu Inka. The popular duo brings Peruvian culture alive in dynamic performances with traditional instruments such as zampoñas, quenas, charangos, bombos, chacchas, and cajón.
When: Audience members are invited to arrive around 5:30 p.m. The concert begins at 6:00 p.m. and ends at 7:00 p.m.
Where: The Silver City Park and the Silver Pavilion Stage are located at 385 High Street, Silver City, Nevada 89428. Parking is on the south side of the building. Silver City is located within a federal historic landmark on the Comstock 3 miles south of Virginia City, 11 miles from Carson City, and 29 miles from Reno.
More about Kantu Inka: Carlos Ocampo and Julie Lozada Ocampo unite their musical and teaching experience performing as Kantu Inka. An Andean musician and composer and an alumnus of La Universidad Nacional Federico Villareal in Lima, Carlos Ocampo plays guitar, mandolin and charango as well as the Andean wind instruments quena and zampoña. Julie Lozada Ocampo was Nevada's State World Language Teacher of the Year in 2014 and is a National Board Certified Spanish teacher who plays zampoña and percussion for Kantu Inka. In 2022 she was awarded an Honorary Lifetime Membership Award by the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching for significant contributions to the teaching of second languages.
Sponsorship: The Saturday, August 13 concert is funded by the Ray A. Isaac Endowment for the Arts and the Resident Artist Program in Silver City. The Ray A. Isaac Endowment for the Arts funds events that celebrate traditional music of Latin America, and projects that imagine a sustainable future through art.
What is the Resident Artist Program? The artist-in-residence program in Silver City provides a way for those from other parts of the U.S. and the world to engage with the community and the region through the arts. Selected applicants creating in the performing, visual, or literary arts reside at McCormick House, a geodesic dome designed in the 1970s by Nevada artist and professor Jim McCormick. As part of their residency, visiting artists offer free public performances, exhibitions, readings, workshops, etc. Alumni of the program, among many others, include Pulitizer Prize nominated poet David Lee; David Cote, an award winning opera librettist, arts journalist and playwright based in New York City; Stewart Easton, a London, UK based artist who has shown his unique artwork at the Tate Modern (a Tate Lates installation) as well as in galleries in New York, LA and beyond. The Autumn artist-in-residence for 2022 is Alice Cazenave of London, UK, a doctoral researcher and photographic artist. The subject of her current research for her PhD in Visual Anthropology at University of Goldsmiths, London is the chemical and ecological legacies of the materials used in analogue photography, and her focus is on silver.
For more information about the concert or the Resident Artist Program in Silver City, contact Director Quest Lakes at 775 847 0742.
