Orquesta Monte Calvo
Lusty Surfy Afro-Latin Dance Music!
Shady Stage on Campus Way, Lower Campus
Saturday:
5:00 PM -
6:00 PM
Lusty Surfy Afro-Latin Dance Music!
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Corvallis band Orquesta Monte Calvo (Bald Hill Orchestra) plays
Afro-Latin dance music, with emphasis on Peruvian popular dance
music from the 1960's and 1970's. Blending surfy psychedelic
guitar, Hammond organ, funky bass, a powerful percussion section,
and Spanish vocals, Orquesta Monte Calvo will make you want to
dance.
Like most of the New World, Peru is a melting pot of indigenous,
African and European cultures. Chicha music gets its name from the
powerful liquor made from fermented corn or pineapple skins. It is
uniquely Andean, merging mountain folk melodies, Cumbia rhythms
imported from Africa via Colombia and Venezuela, and the sounds of
psychedelic rock, a sound as deliriously intoxicating as its
namesake beverage. The Festejo and Zamacueca styles come from the
coastal areas, and derive from African traditions originally from
the Congo and Angola. Orquesta Monte Calvo draws inspiration from
these sounds, and add their own interpretations, with decades of
experience in jazz, rock, funk, African and latin ensembles. Band
members have played with Alfredo Muro, Balafon, Eleven Eyes,
Xenat-Ra, Snappy Larry, Ordinance and many others.