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Venezuelan Folk Music Workshop
July 6, 2024 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free
Venezuelan Folk Music Workshop
Venezuelan violinist, maraca player, music teacher, and music producer Brenda Rengel will offer the Venezuelan Music Workshop in which she presents the most relevant rhythmic and sound characteristics of four genres of Venezuelan popular music: waltz, joropo, merengue, and gaita zuliana.
To close the conversation, the artist will distribute the sheet music of the waltz Linda Mujer and the merengue El Frutero, two iconic pieces of the Venezuelan popular repertoire, and will invite the attendees to join in a common song and playing, which will include two violins, cuatro, guitar, cello, ukulele and the voices of all the attendees.
The activity will be an interactive, enjoyable, and joyful experience that will serve to spread the richness of Venezuelan folk music, promote bonds of friendship among the inhabitants of Houston, and provide musical education and appreciation.
This event, will be held at the Looscan Public Library in the city of Houston, on July 6, 2024.