This blog comments news about environmental and cultural affaires, festivals, music, musical instruments and history related to the chilean cityport of Valparaiso.
Friday, September 07, 2012
FIMIV 2012- Oct. 12-15-2012
Our IX Festival inmigrante de Valparaiso is due for next October 12 to 15th
This time we will have bands from Danmark (Himmerland), Brasil (Olam Ein Sof) and many others from different cities in Chile, plus we will have an ethnic fusion orchestra set after the Ethnos project we call the Ensamble Transatlántico de Chile directed by Nano Stern and Ernesto Calderon.
Geologist trained as paleontologist, naturalist, & musician/organiser of folk festivals in Chile. Teaching geology, organising folk music venues, playing church, celtic and traditional folk music as member of Celtamericana, Sarmientos del Señor Choir, and Remembranzas de Galicia pipeband. More could be found at the following URL: http://profiles.yahoo.com/luchai1.
Our current main working projects are: -Festival Internacional de Música Inmigrante de Valparaiso -Banda celtamericana -Clan celta -Shanties and plectrum instruments -Adoquin and urban geology