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2010 Pasache Music Afro Peruvian Festival
OCTOBER: Afro Peruvian Jarana Month
A tribute to Augusto Ascuez Villanueva, The Lord of Jarana!

Our purpose is to celebrate and promote our Afro Peruvian Heritage and create awareness about our people and culture in every possible way.
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Our objective is to every year organize, produce, co-produce, and promote a series of music and dance presentations, workshops, photo and video exhibits, culinary/gastronomic tours & fairs, and to use every tool possible to serve our purpose.

This year our limited resources have not discouraged us from achieving our objectives, to the contrary the current situation has allowed for creative solutions, opportunities for strategic alliances, and we are proud of it.

 

Our main objective for 2010 is to showcase the best Afro Peruvian musicians right now in New York.

Tutuma Social Club has joined the festival and we deeply salute Santina Bari (owner) and Gabriel Alegria (curator) for sharing the same efforts. Since April 2009, the most important Afro Peruvian music venue in New York. They are contributing with a full calendar of Afro Peruvian music every day of October, presenting shows from the most traditional style to the most elaborate arrangements in jazz.
Everyday 1-31.
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays: Gabriel Alegría Afro Peruvian Sextet
Mondays: Chilcano 2.0
Tuesdays: Laura Andrea Trío featuring Maestro Rufino Ortiz
Wednesdays: Edward Pérez Quintet

Thusdays: Bichiló with Freddy "Huevito" Lobatón
(All shows - No cover charge)
www.tutumasocialclub.com

Terraza 7 Train Cafe is adding more days of Afro Peruvian music -from traditional criollo to jazz- to its October calendar and we thank Freddy Castiblanco (owner) for the support. The first music venue presenting one day of Afro Peruvian jazz every week, uninterruptedly since 2005.
Monday 18: Edward Pérez Afro Peruvian Collective
Wednesdays 6, 20: Noche de Miércoles
Thursdays 7, 14, 21, 28: Eric Kurimski Afro Peruvian jazz
Fridays 8; Jarana & Festejo de PM
(All shows - No cover charge)
www.terrazacafe.com

Pío Pío Restaurant, Hell's Kitchen location, is also joining the celebration with three Mondays of Afro Peruvian music during the festival.
Mondays 11, 18, 25.
Eric Kurimski (guitar),
John Benitez (bass), and
Juan Medrano Cotito (cajón & vocals)
www.piopiorestaurant.com

Sofía Rei Koutsovitis is at Blue Note as part of the Jazz Argentino Brunch Series on the 24th. and we thank her for creating an unannounced ample Afro Peruvian segment on this Sunday Brunch joining the celebration with Juan Medrano Cotito and guests. Certainly an Afro Peruvian repertoire that creates awareness about our people and culture.
Sofía Rei Koutsovitis (vocals)
Eric Kurimski (guitar)
Jorge Roeder (bass)
Yayo Serka (percussion)
and guest Juan Medrano Cotito: La Voz del Cajón
(Sunday 24 Brunch - $24.50)
www.bluenote.net/newyork

Inca Gaucho Restaurant is presenting Friday nights of Afro Peruvian music and we thank Eduardo Campos (owner) for taking the challenge. Show of Afro Peruvian music for the first time in Westchester County and the potential for this place to become a consolidated and relevant music venue.
Fridays 1, 15
Jarana & Festejo PM
(All shows - Call for details)
www.incagaucho.com

Chimú Peruvian Cuisine & Steak House is also presenting one day of Afro Peruvian jazz and we thank the owners for adding a Sunday each month.
Sunday 10
Eric Kurimski (guitar)
Benjamin Willis (bass)
Juan Medrano Cotito (cajón & vocals)
(Show - No cover charge)

 

Virú Fine Peruvian Cuisine is presenting La Voz del Cajón the last three Fridays of October and We thank this venue for the late but opportune addition.

Fridays 15, 22, 29.

Juan Medrano Cotito (cajón & vocals)  15, 22, & 29.

Eric Kurimski (guitar)  15, 22, & 29.

Edward Pérez (bass)  15 & 22.

Sofía Rei Koutsovitis (vocals)  15 & 29.




The jarana is an example of an improvised vocal duel. It was performed in the back streets of Lima, Peru, and can be interpreted as a precursor to similar urban musical 'cutting-contests' associated with stride pianists in Harlem in the 1920s and rappers in and around ghettos across the world.
Augusto Ascuez Villanueva who lived among the urban poor and mainly black slums and ghettos of Lima (Barrio of Malambo, El Rimac) - developed a virtuosic ability to use rhyme to compete for social recognition and ascendancy within a squalid and at times desperate urban milieu. Together with Manuel Quintana Olivares "El Canario Negro", Elias Ascuez Villanueva his younger brother, and Luciano Huambachano Temoche, they were known locally as the Four Aces of Jarana for their mastery and dexterity on this craft; but Augusto Ascuez Villanueva himself was considered "Señor de Señores", without a doubt: The Lord of Jarana!!!
At Pasache Music we know that by paying tribute to Augusto Ascuez Villanueva who embodies jarana we are also recognizing the enormous contribution of the jaranistas to our culture.

Participants in one venue or more:

Mariela Valencia (IGR)(TER)
Sofía Rei Koutsovitis (IGR) (TER) (BLU)
Ileana Santa María (IGR)(TER)


Juan Medrano Cotito (IGR) (TER) (PIO) (TSC) (BLU)(CHM)
Freddy "Huevito" Lobatón (TSC) (TER)
Leonardo "Gigio" Parodi (TER)
Pedro "Perico" Díaz (TER)
Roberto "Chino" Bolaños (IGR)
Félix Valdelomar (IGR)(TER)
Jhair Sala (TER)
Hector Morales (TSC) (IGR)
Yayo Serka (TER) (BLU)
Jeffrey Fajardo (TSC)

Rufino Ortiz (TSC) (IGR)
Yuri Juárez (TSC) (IGR) (TER)
Eric Kurimski (IGR) (TER) (PIO) (BLU)(CHM)

John Benitez (TSC) (IGR) (TER)(PIO)
Edward Pérez (TSC) (IGR) (TER)
Jorge Roeder (BLU)
Pablo Menares (TSC) (TER)
Benjamin Willis (CHM)

Shirazette Tinnin(TSC)
Ziv Ravitz (TSC) (TER)

Shai Maestro (TSC) (TER)

Gabriel Alegría (TSC)
Laura Andrea Leguía (TSC)
Xavier Pérez (TSC) (TER)

...and many more!!!

Blue Note Jazz Club (BLU)
Tutuma Social Club (TSC),
Terraza 7 Train Cafe (TER),
Pío Pío Restaurant (PIO),
Inca Gaucho Restaurant (IGR)
Chimú Peruvian Cuisine & Steak House (CHM)


 

At Pasache Music we find our inspiration in the Callejón del Buque musical experience of a time, in this Afro Peruvian neighborhood located in La Victoria district, in Lima, Perú.

We are about the people and conditions of a moment in history, their struggle, and their capacity and capability to overcome adversity with a positive attitude, a sense of nostalgic festivity, and lively rythm of life which gave birth to an original Afro Peruvian music as we know it today.

Beginning-1940's- A time of Abelino Ciudad when the Afro Peruvian expressions were kept to the callejones, and those in search of the original creole food, music and dance being done here had to bring themselves to this neighborhoods to enjoy it, and interact at par with the people in the so called jaranas.

1950's- A time when Alejandro "Manchao" Arteaga and his wife Valentina Barrionuevo welcomed the best jaranistas criollos, guitar and cajón players, singers, musicians and artists of all sorts, in her small house creating the most memorable moments in música criolla history. And giving birth to La Valentina, the most relevant Afro Peruvian venue in Lima, Perú, and home to the most important rythm and festejo competition in the world: Valentina de Oro.

1960's- A time when the son of Juan "Mata Toro" Pasache was growing up to be one of the most productive and successful song writers for Afro Peruvian singers such as Rómulo Varillas with Embajadores Criollos, Arturo "Zambo" Cavero with Oscar Avilés, Manuel Donayre, Lucila Campos, Lucía de la Cruz, and Eva Ayllón.

1970's- A time when the great Ronaldo Campos started Perú Negro with neighborhood youngsters from Luna Pizarro and Renovación, not to mention the co-founders, and created the most renowned and successful Afro Peruvian group around the world.

At Pasache Music we are persuing the successful integration of our Afro Peruvian experience in the callejones with the Jazz in all of us.

Our objective is to find and promote the best emerging musicians who are able to bring the world's finest jazz closer to you. Those who understand Música Negra from all the Americas and the Globe with a universal purpose.