Pedro Giraudo "Expansions" Big Band, Juancho Herrera, Rebolu, Ñawi and Alejo García at NYC South American Music Festival at Zinc Bar

Building on the success of a sold out first edition, the NYC South American Music Festival returns to Zinc Bar during the APAP NYC conference 2014. The festival celebrates a new movement in the US: music rooted in the folklores of various countries of South America, as they borrow from each other and meet with styles from all around the globe including pop, rock, jazz, world and electronica. These musicians have blurred the boundaries between their musical cultures and carved out a renovated identity of the South American diaspora.

SAMF was launched by a group of artists from Argentina (Sofia Rei and Sofia Tosello), Colombia (Gregorio Uribe) and Venezuela (Juancho Herrera) who are now known as El Colectivo Sur, together with Lilihouse Agency, and continues with the addition of new artists for each edition: the 2014 edition will feature the Pedro Giraudo Expansions Big Band, in which the Argentine leader combines his love of classical forms, Argentine tango and folk music, and the spontaneity of jazz improvisation, Juancho Herrera, one of our founding artists and NYC-based Venezuelan guitar/cuatro player and singer-songwriter with his urban pan-Latin sounds, Rebolú, a NYC-based musical ensemble promoting traditions of the Afro descendants of Colombia's Carribean coast, Ñawi, a collaboration of Boston-based group Yarina and Alex Alvear (now based in Quito) presenting a new and contemporary vision of Ecuadorian music, Alejo García, a singer/songwriter from the collective Barrio Colombia, flying in from Antioquia for the festival...

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Building on the success of a sold out first edition, the NYC South American Music Festival returns to Zinc Bar during the APAP NYC conference 2014. The festival celebrates a new movement in the US: music rooted in the folklores of various countries of South America, as they borrow from each other and meet with styles from all around the globe including pop, rock, jazz, world and electronica. These musicians have blurred the boundaries between their musical cultures and carved out a renovated identity of the South American diaspora.

SAMF was launched by a group of artists from Argentina (Sofia Rei and Sofia Tosello), Colombia (Gregorio Uribe) and Venezuela (Juancho Herrera) who are now known as El Colectivo Sur, together with Lilihouse Agency, and continues with the addition of new artists for each edition: the 2014 edition will feature the Pedro Giraudo Expansions Big Band, in which the Argentine leader combines his love of classical forms, Argentine tango and folk music, and the spontaneity of jazz improvisation, Juancho Herrera, one of our founding artists and NYC-based Venezuelan guitar/cuatro player and singer-songwriter with his urban pan-Latin sounds, Rebolú, a NYC-based musical ensemble promoting traditions of the Afro descendants of Colombia's Carribean coast, Ñawi, a collaboration of Boston-based group Yarina and Alex Alvear (now based in Quito) presenting a new and contemporary vision of Ecuadorian music, Alejo García, a singer/songwriter from the collective Barrio Colombia, flying in from Antioquia for the festival.

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