In the spirit of their name, Sonoma-based trio Chaskinakuy (chas-kee-NAH-kwee, meaning "to receive from hand to hand among many people") have spent the past 30 years collecting and sharing the jubilant, haunting indigenous music of the Andean mountains with audiences throughout the US. Beautiful vocal harmonies in Spanish and the Andean dialect of Quechua, as well as an extraordinary collection of more than 25 different traditional string, wind and percussion instruments including feather panpipes, bone flutes, a harp which is played upside-down, and a 10-foot-long trumpet, evoke images of high plateaus and rural celebrations as multi-instrumentalists Edmond Badoux, Francy Vidal, and Daniel Zamalloa perform traditional music found in the high-mountain communities of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Chile. |