MarKamusic is a high energy ensemble that plays a mixture of Andean-South American and Latin music in an array of nearly 50 ancient and modern instruments.

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MarKamusic (means music of the people in Andean Quechua language - the most widely spoken native language of the Americas), is a high energy ensemble that performs a fusion of Latin genres rooted in South American Indigenous music, Caribbean influences and Latin jazz and pop amalgams. MarKamusic uses Over 50 ancient and modern instruments to create an entrancing and eclectic weave of music, rhythms and colors. The ensemble plays chiefly original Folk/Traditional/Pop/Latin amalgams based on Andean, Caribbean, Latin, Jazz and Afro-South American themes on an array of nearly fifty ancient and modern instruments. During its performances, MarKamusic accents the contributions of the four major cultural influences that have shaped modern Latin American music—the indigenous South American, the West African, the Euro-Iberian, and the contemporary North American. Melodic forms from these diverse cultures intermingled over the centuries, creating much of what is Latin American music today.

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Bio

In the beginning, the six-piece ensemble, "MarKamusic" had been performing its unique "Pan-Andean World Beat" music before multi-cultural audiences across the United States. From its conception as an ensemble of South American music, the group expanded its repertoire to include music form other Latin genres, saxophones, electric instruments, and jazz drums complementing the bamboo flutes and diminutive Indian guitars of the folkloric music in marvelous, if sometimes offbeat, ways.

Since then, MarKamusic's musical selections have emerged as a combination of many themes: their own interpretation of ancient Andean aboriginal melodies; songs arising from the twentieth-century Latin American struggle for Political peace; the sometimes jarring, sometimes hypnotic Música Negroide of Peru; of folk-rock protest music—banned in the mid 1970s under pain of death by the military Juntas; and a handful of favorite Caribbean and Latin-American torch songs and high-energy pop tunes. The sum of it all is that chairs are often empty or kicked over at the end of the night: everyone is up on their feet, prancing or kicking about like crazy or taking part in a madcap, coiling conga-line.

Today, MarKamusic is an improbable alliance of a North American Jazz, Classic and rock musician, a Peruvian folkloric multi-instrumentalist, an Ecuadorian Jazz, Salsa and Cumbia musician, a Peruvian aboriginal-communications scholar, and two Puerto Rican folkloric multi-instrumentalists.