Featured Concert: Sara Curruchich
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording
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content: 2024 June 30
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2024, Item SFF2024_0630_IVA_FourDirections_0007
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copy available
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content: Cliff Murphy; Michelle Banks (Presenter); Sara Curruchich (guitar, vocals, Kaqchikel Maya); Sandra Moreno (marimba, keyboards, vocal chorus, Guatemala, Chiapas Maya); Moty (drums, vocal chorus); Karla Molkovich (bass, vocal chorus); Nadia Larcher (percussion, vocals, Daiguita CalchaquÌ) Singer-songwriter Sara Curruchich is the first Indigenous Guatemalan artist to sing in Kaqchikel for an international audience. Her songs blend elements of rock, folk, and Maya Kaqchikel traditional music, with marimba, bass, and percussion accompaniment for this performance.