Chicha Libre at the Delta Music Institute
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
, Posted by Tricia Walker at 5:53 PM
Chicha Libre is a Brooklyn-based group who have resurrected a 1970s style of Peruvian dance music called chicha.
They recently gave a performance in Studio A at the Delta Music Institute at Delta State University.
Chicha is the name of a South American music craze which started out in the early 70's in the Peruvian Amazon. Cumbias Amazonicas, as they were first called, were loosely inspired by Colombian accordion-driven cumbias but incorporated the distinctive pentatonic scales of Andean melodies, some Cuban son, and the psychedelic sounds of surf guitars, farfisa organs and moog synthesizers. "Chicha music", now called Tecnocumbia (originally a Peruvian styled cumbia), is also quite popular all over, as well as Salsa among youngsters.
For more info on Chicha Libre, contact the band at chichalibre@earthlink.net.
For more info on the Delta Music Institute, contact the DMI at dmi@deltastate.edu.
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