Growing up in Berkeley with parents concerned about the political struggles in Central and South America, Lydia Mills spent a lot of time at the city's La Peña Cultural Center - an oasis of the region ...

MADRID: Migrants and descendants from across Latin America, joined by Spanish supporters, gathered outside the United States ...

Barr Middle School sixth-graders joined Oscar Rios Pohirieth con los manos - with their hands - in making Andean music. Pohirieth's appearance Friday was part of the school's "Travel Around the World ...

Don’t Cry for Me, Peru... Central to the music of the Andes presented here is the "Andean" flute. Traditionally made with clay, animal bones, or silver, the contemporary Sikus are constructed from ...

Andean music may often be identified with small, poncho-wearing bands playing pan flutes. But Peru’s Serenata de los Andes is taking the genre to the next level. Like a passing condor on steroids, ...

NEW YORK - Erwin Frankel, a radio host and concert promoter who broadened the American cultural palette by introducing audiences to Andean pan flute music, the whirling dervishes of Turkey, and the ...

If you listen closely, beyond the ringing bells of the downtown street cars and the bustle of eager shoppers, you can find the smooth sounds of the pan flute and a small guitar known as a charango.