Los Mapaches

Los Mapaches includes more than forty young musicians, ranging from kindergartners to high school students, who study and perform locally. The group's focus has expanded to include traditional music not only from the Andes, but from other regions of Latin America as well. Members of Los Mapaches are proficient on a variety of panflutes, including the paya, antara, and zampoña. They also play the tarka (a wooden flute from the Andes), the quena (bamboo flute), stringed instruments, including guitar and charango, and percussion instruments from the Venezuelan and Colombian coasts.Vocal numbers are primarily sung in Spanish, although the group also sings numbers in native Andean languages with some bilingual arrangements as well.