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Marta Gomez “The Hands of Women,” Marta sings for women in honor of Mother’s Day Marta Gomez “The Hands of Women,” Marta sings for women in honor of Mother’s Day

with Pajarillo Pinta’o Dance Company

Sun May 12th, 2013

7:00PM

Main Space

Minimum Age: All Ages

Doors Open: 6:00PM

Show Time: 7:00PM

Event Ticket: $25

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“Manos de Mujeres” Marta le canta a las mujeres en el Dia de la Madre
 
New York City’s annual Colombian music festival ENCUENTRO NYC will present more Colombian music to New York this year in celebration of its 10th anniversary, with a special concert in honor of women on Mother’s Day, featuring internationally renowned Encuentro artist, singer Marta Gómez.

 

National Public Radio Journalist Steve Inskeep said he admired Marta’s capacity of “turning the bitter history of her native country into sweet music.” Having just been chosen to represent Colombia with her poignant voice in the United Nations’ video “One Woman,” released March 8, 2013, it is especially noteworthy that she be visiting NYC for the first time in over a year to present a concert especially geared towards women.
 
Marta will travel to New York from Barcelona, Spain, to present her repertoire, new and old, including a preview into her upcoming album set for children –“Canciones de Sol y Luna”—featuring lullabies and other children songs. Opening the evening will be Encuentro artist and world-renowned dancer Daniel Fetecua (of the Limon Dance Company), with whom Marta collaborated to produce a video in the deserts of Spain in 2012. Daniel and his Colombian dance company Pajarillo Pinta’o, will present bullerengue, a dance from the Caribbean coast, that is traditionally sung by women, and danced by exclusively women, with subtle hip movements very closely associated with the cumbia. The bullerengue dance is a ritual dedicated to all stages of a woman’s life.

 

$15 for minors, FREE for 4 year olds and under (at the door only)
 
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Marta Gomez “The Hands of Women,” Marta sings for women in honor of Mother’s Day

Marta was born singing. In her cradle she composed and sang the noises around her to call upon sleep.
 
Marta composes to ward off nostalgia and chase away sadness, hers and others. She learned how to sing to the soul and the soul learned how to listen.
 
In her voice sings the wind, sometimes a river laughs and even the whispers of the earth can be heard.
 
With her guitar, her voice, and full of will, she keeps composing the songs around her, and the voices dictated by absences, to lull the silence

-Nicolás Buenaventura VidalFilm maker, screen writer and story teller
 
Graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Berklee College of Music, after receiving the Best Achievement Scholarship, Marta Gómez has developed an extensive music career which has placed her as one of the most interesting singer songwriters on the world music scene today.
 
Marta and her group perform a repertoire of original compositions based on a vast amount of rhythms from Latin America. On her songs, Marta mixes the joy of the Caribbean with the nostalgia of the Andes adding jazz and pop elements, taking the authenticity of South American indigenous folk music into a new realm.
 
With more than 80 composed songs, This young singer-songwriter not only traverses a whole range of Colombian cumbias and bambucos, Argentinezambas, chilean cuecas, Bolivian carnavalitos and Peruvian festejos but she also writes the kind of melodies and refrains that translates across any language barrier. That may be the reason that lead Marta to share the stage with musicians of different genres such as Bonnie Raitt , John Mayer, Totó la Momposina and Mercedes Sosa.
Marta was also chosen to record Kris Kristofferson’s “The Circle” on a tribute to this great American icon. Marta “lifted that song up to when it’s supposed to be, to where it belongs” according to Kristofferson’s own words. American writerJohn Sandford made a reference to that version of “The circle” on his novel “Dark of the moon” (2007).
 
In March 2003, Marta’s song “Paula Ausente” based on the book “Paula” by Isabel Allende, won the The SIBL Project International songwriting contest as the best song inspired by a South American book. The song was included on a CD among others by artists such as Tom Waits and David Bowie. “Paula Ausente” was also included on the Putumayo Compilation “Women of the world: Acustic”(2007) and on the soundtrack of the HBO Latin America’s series “Capadocia”. Her song “La Ronda” was also included on the Putumayo compilation “Women of Latin America” (2004) and in 2005 Marta was chosen by “Fucsia”, a Colombian magazine as one of the 5 Most representative women of her country.
 
With six albums under her belt, her self-released “Solo es vivir” was chosen by The Boston Globe as one of the 10 best albums of 2003 and her “Cantos de Agua Dulce” (2004 Chesky Records), was nominated for the Billboard Latin Music Awards as best Latin Jazz Album among Paco de Lucia’s, Nestor Torres’ and Gonzalo Rubalcaba’s. Her album “Entre Cada Palabra” (2005 chesky records) placed Marta Gómez as “The Best National World-Music Act of 2006” by the Boston Phoenix.
 
Her fifth album “Musiquita” (2009 Aluna Records) was once again placed at the top of the European World Music Charts for several weeks. Marta and her group perform regularly in the US, Europe, Israel and South America with great acceptance by audiences of all origins. Marta also tours regularly with Israelian beloved musician Idan Raichel.
 
On her sixth production “El corazón y el sombrero” (The heart and the hat) (2011 Aluna Records), she pays a tribute to Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, adding Latin American folkloric rhythms to 12 of his poems. On this album, Marta had the fortune of having singer-songriter Javier Ruibal as her guest for one piece. To promote this new work, the group has traveled to Israel (Zappa Jazz Club), Colombia (Festival de músicas de Cartagena), Ecuador (Teatro Sucre), Spain (Festival Barnasants & La mar de músicas de Murcia) and South Africa (KKNK Festival).
 
Marta is nourished by the everyday stories, and from this nostalgia, songs emerge with a deep social and human content. In an interview on the National Public Radio, journalist Steve Inskeep said he admires Marta’s capacity of “turning the bitter history of her native country into sweet music”.

Pajarillo Pinta’o Dance Company

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With the founding of Pajarillo Pinta’o in 2003, Artistic Director Daniel Fetecua Soto has started to investigate the fusion of traditional dances and rhythms of Colombian Folklore with the principals of modern dance and German tanz-theater.

Pajarillo Pinta’o took its first steps as a traditional Colombian Folkloric dance ensemble while Colombian founder and artistic director Daniel Fetecua Soto was a student at the Folkwang Hochsule in Essen, Germany.

Later his choreography became shaped by not only his cross-cultural studies of Colombian traditional dance at Universidad Nacional in Colombia, but by his newly acquired experiences and training in dance-theatre, modern, and contemporary dance-notably, his position in the world-renowned Jose Limon dance company.

The culmination of this training and performance history has birthed a movement that interweaves the rhythms, music, choreographic structure and rites of the native dances of Colombia, with the lyricim and neo-expressionism found in contemporary dance.

Pajarillo Pinta’o is Daniel’s personal homage to his culture and his traditions.

Upon moving to the USA in 2006, Daniel started his work with dancers in New York City while continuing to travel annually to Germany to work with his dancers and Associate Artistic Director Maria Lucia Agon Ramirez abroad who KEEP the work alive across the ocean.

Here in NYC Pajarillo Pinta’o has started an incredible collaboration with Colombian musician and composer Pablo Mayor and his band Folklore Urbano as well as with the renowned Colombian singer Lucia Pulido, and Theatre Director German Jaramillo, founder and director of ID Studio Theatre.

In the last three years Pajarillo Pinta’o has been developing an infrastructure and under the managing direction of Anna Amadei, Pajarillo Pinta’o has received two grants from the Harlem Stage Fund for New Work (granted to Daniel Fetecua for two new choreographic works).

Our mission is to keep spreading the pure essence of Colombian Folklore to the world, and having people experience it through the music and the dances. We also aim to continue developing a new language and a new form to present the soul of tradition and its evolution in our contemporary world.

The richness of Pajarillo Pinta’o is that Daniel Fetecua has been willing to work with professional dancers, trained in many other disciplines (modern, contemporary, jazz) with a particular affinity with Latin sounds and beats but coming from all over the world. This way we show that Colombian Folklore is not something that only people from Colombia can do but that EVERYONE can experience, learn and enjoy!

Since 2010 Pajarillo Pinta’o is also a production company producing every year a project called DanSUR/DanSOUTH a choreographic collective directed by Daniel Fetecua willing to celebrate the traditions and the new waves of Latin American Dance.

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