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ABOUT BOLEADORA
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Jim Duncan
- webmaster and creator of Boleadora.Com
I am a Certified
Professional Broadcast Engineer and systems administrator in
Central California USA. I have a long time love for Andean and Latin
American music and am pleased to make examples of the
music available to the Internet. I own OKAY
Multimedia, and my performance art is
dance. Email: Jim |
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 Paul
Farren - Andean/Latin American musician
with Achalay (London)
"Unfortunately, the group doesn't now function thanks to
the lack of musical Latin Americans in London. When we played, apart from the
basic three Englishmen, we always had a variety of young Latins in the group, from Bolivia or Chile or Colombia, etc. Now that (happily) there are
no military regimes in South America there are no latin refugees here and,
consequently, no longer the same opportunity to form musical groups. Achalay was based on three
English, two of whom met when they shared digs in Punta Arenas, Chile. The third (me) had at that time never visited Latin
America, but I was imbued with a great love and respect for andean music.
We always had Latin Americans in the group from various countries and thus
widened our musical base. Our main interest was Andean music, but we also
played music from Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, etc always using the appropriate instruments. Apart from playing in theatres, concert
halls, universities, fiestas, etc all over England; we made an LP; we provided the soundtrack music for a travelogue film about South America and
the soundtrack music for the BBC TV film "Great Train Journeys: The
Altiplano" and we broadcast on the radio (BBC Radio London and Radio Southwest) as well as several TV programmes. We also took part in a work organised by Chilean refugees "Violeta Nuestramerica": a musical about the
life of the Chilean folklorist Violeta Parra. Among our instruments were:
guitar, charango, venezuelan cuatro, colombian tiple, quena, pinkullo,
tarka, mocseña, zampoñas (sikus), rondador, accordion, harmonica, bombo,
caja, matraca, guacharaca, claves, maracas and tambourine. I believe sincerely that Achalay always behaved in the best interests of
Andean music, always treating the music with great respect, realising that it represented
the heritage of the Andean peoples. It was our "policy" never to copy the
recordings of others, but always to make a fresh arrangement, but one which
would be totally traditional. We brought the music of the Andes and other regions to English audiences. Our recording of the Argentine chacarera
doble "Añoranzas" can be heard on the BOLEADORA website."
Email: Paul
Many thanks for helping me update
Boleadora!
| Ruth Oliver of
Australia |
Juan-Carlos Molina,La Paz, Bolivia |
| Kelly Crump |
Duilio Monroy in Brazil |
| Hector Duarte in the
Netherlands |
Joyce Pearce, US |
| Wolf Hamma |
Brian Surks, US |
| Anahy Echeverria |
Rea Dorame |
| Andre, Canada |
Ricardo Dorado, Madrid, Spain |
| Joel Fentin, California,
US |
Janeth Villacis, Miami, Florida, US |
| Wayne Selcher,
Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, US |
Pat Barry, Laguna Woods, California, US |
| Marcela Comejo, Peru |
Silvia Montalvo |
| Fernando Szklanny,
Argentina |
Roberto Rios, New York
City, US |
| Raul Garcia, Texas, US |
Omar Bernal, New Jersey,
US |
| Mario Torrico,
California, US |
John Burke, US |
That's the Boleadora team,
but what about you? As a Boleadora visitor do you have any photos showing
you in folkloric garb and/or with an Andean or Latin American musical instrument?
Please send them with some
information about yourself or your group to Boleadora. These will be
put up on the FOTOS page.
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