Musical Journey Through Latin America is an educational concert that celebrates music, culture, stories, and landscapes of several Latin American countries, among them Ecuador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil. In this concert, Vento Sur will perform folk and popular music styles like Tango, Cumbia, and Samba.
Vento Sur is a Calarts-all-alumni group composed of João Junqueira, Julissa Bozman, Alex Bozman, and Jay Gravatt.
Video images produced by Visual Artist: Ana Maria Penaranda
Vento Sur performs music in both Spanish and Portuguese languages. Its bilingual name Vento (“wind” in Portuguese); Sur (“South” in Spanish) was inspired by a metaphoric representation of a fresh breeze of music and culture moving from south to north. Vento Sur represents a flowing motion that originates in South America, reenergizes itself in Central America and the Spanish speaking Caribbean, and continues traveling northward. It reaches us in North America as the south wind that brings cultural and musical enrichment to Santa Clarita. Directed by Joao Junqueira, Vento Sur presents music as a great medium for transcendence and as a uniting element for various Latin American cultures.