Music of the Americas: Chile, Mexico, and Coro Acardenchado

Tuesday, April 1, 10 am

Naara Andariega is Chilean singer from the Magallanes region based in Buenos Aires since 2011. Her first album, Cardinal, was released in 2021. During return trips to Chile, she has performed at festivals in Magallanes and developed her technique of transposed guitar, including inventing her own tuning. Her singing, the use of the guitarra campesina, the alternate tunings, and her poetic depictions of the traveler and emigration makes her one of the leading performers of her generation. 

From Coyhaique, at the foothills of the Chilean Andes in the Aysén region, she sent us this video of "Del lucero y del agua." It was recorded as part of the Andariega Trío that also includes Jorge Fortune Bayer and Andrés Guerrero Toledo. 

Thursday, April 3, 10 am 

Chilean singer, songwriter, and actress Vero Soffía, holds a master's degree in cultural biology and has participated in festivals in Latin America and Asia. Her 2014 debut album, Hay que andar, explored the fusion of pop and folklore in an intimate and sensitive way, and featured collaborations with Arlette Jequier, Andrés Pérez, and Nano Stern. This was followed by four more releases, including the latest, released in April 2022 at the Teatro del Lago in Frutillar and supported by the National Fund for Music and the Arts, which is a work strongly inspired by the natural landscapes of southern Chile, where she lives. Currently, seeking to generate transformative processes through music, she leads Proyecto Hécate, a female choir working on a popular cantata that, through its songs, seeks to raise awareness about various gender issues.

"Llévame al río," recorded in Frutillar with Dominique Arenas and Consuelo Valenzuela, is a song that was born in the middle of the forests of southern Chile as a reminder of the importance of connecting with the natural world that surrounds us and of the perspective that this eternal cycle of waters and the earth offers us, in the face of the daily anxieties that result from our current way of life. Inspired by Andean sounds of Latin American folklore, the song mixes styles to create an organic sound full of emotion and wonder. 

Wednesday, April 2, 10 am

Lohengrin Paredes is back on En Casa from his new home in Cozumel with "El Nácar y el Coral," recorded on the pier of that city in the Mexican Caribbean.

Friday, April 4, 10 am 

In November 2024, this remarkable Mexican vocal ensemble, directed by Juan Pablo Villa, María Emilia Martínez, and Leika Mochán, had its U.S. debut in a concert presented in a new collaboration between Music of the Americas and the Celebrate México NOW Festival. 

Watch here

The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas concert series is made possible by the generous support of Presenting Sponsor MetLife Foundation.

The 2024-2025 series is also supported, in part, by the Howard Gilman Foundation, Augustine Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Mex-Am Cultural Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, and Mid Atlantic Arts.