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 ...

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 ...