Instituto Cervantes of Chicago

Born in Senegal to a Gewel griot family, singer and percussionist Sidy Samb has made his home in Spain for decades. A founding member of the celebrated flamenco-fusion hitmakers Mártires del Compás, Samb’s latest solo project, Afroflamenco (Dem Dikk), is...

The quintessential Chilean folk group begins its 70th anniversary celebration with a brief U.S. tour that begins in Chicago. Conjunto Cuncumén was started in February 1955 when Sylvia Urbina, Rolando Arcón and Alejandro Reyes ran into each other at a...

Hailed by The Boston Globe as a “premier exponent of Chamamé“, Brazil-based Argentine composer, accordionist, and researcher Alejandro Brittes explores his chamamé heritage, an ancestral rhythm born of the encounter between the ritual musicality and cosmovision of the Indigenous Guaraní...

Ana Casasola, a journalist in Costa Rica, investigates the terrorist attack in which her father died forty years ago. The recognition of a possible witness takes her on a journey to the site where the events took place. At the river, near the border with Nicaragua, Ana recognizes in this mysterious man something more familiar and intimate than just a witness.