Medium: Andean Music Location: Times Square Email: nyaguaclara@yahoo.com Phone: (646) 207-4272 Website: www.nyaguaclara.com I’m pretty amazed with the Zoom H2 (the tool I use to record all the artists I meet. Not that it made them sound better than they already were, but that this outside performance on a fairly windy day in Times Square [...]

Medium: The sound of the Andes; guitar and charango Location: Grand Central Email: andesfusion@yahoo.com Phone: 347-898-3931 Website: myspace.com/andesfusion, youtube.com/andesfusion Bio: Andes Fusion is led by Juan Castillo, from Ovalle, Chile. The blending of the rhythms and sounds from their varying countries — Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Japan — make for a unique sound. They [...]

Medium: Music of the Andes Location: Times Square Email: lvilcherrez@msn.com Phone: 718-278-8777 Website: www.grupo-wayno.com (sorry about the audio – I didn’t have my recorder. The actual music sounded a lot warmer and less tinny in real life) They play at the Pio Pio Restaurant, 84-15 Northern Blvd, every Wednesday, 9:00 – 11:00 PM They’ve recorded [...]

Medium: Percussionist/Master log drummer/Drumset Location: MUNY Email: percussionistwilliamruiz@gmail.com Phone: 917-388-7755 Website: www.williamruiz.com, CD Baby, youtube, all about jazz, myspace Bio: William Ruiz (bandleader, Taino percussionist, master log drummer, hand drummer and on Tribal drumset), is one of today’s most talented modern improvisational world music artists. Based in NYC, this young spirited Native American Taino Puerto [...]

Medium: Music of the Andes Location: MUNY Email: espirituandino@aol.com Phone: 917-903-4315 Website: www.espirituandino.com Bio: Espiritu Andino was created in the summer of 2005 as a response to the vital necessity to keep alive, share, spread and transmit to our new generations, the philosophy of the inca culture so as to show the world the different [...]

Medium: Drums, percussion, Hammered Dulcimer Location: 14th Street Union Square Email: info@meccabodega.com Phone: 914-248-5994 Website: www.meccabodega.com, and myspace.com/meccabodega function startGallery_48() { var myGallery = new gallery($(“myGallery_48″), { timed: false, showCarousel: false, showInfopane: false, showArrows: true, embedLinks: true, slideInfoZoneOpacity: 0.80 }); document.getElementById(“myGallery_48″).style.display = “block”; } window.addEvent(“domready”, startGallery_48); mecca6 mecca5 mecca4 mecca3 mecca2 mecca7 mecca1 See an [...]