Join award-winning Pan-Latin ensemble Sol y Canto for a concert and workshop, hosted by Upper Valley Music Center!
Workshop: Body & Voice, A Latin Orchestra with Rosi Amador of Sol y Canto
Friday, October 2, 5-6:30 pm
Norwich Congregational Church, Norwich, VT
Concert: Sol y Canto
Friday, October 2, 7:30 pm
Norwich Congregational Church, Norwich, VT
Community Chorus at UVMC and Children's Chorus members receive a $10 discount towards either the concert or workshop! Use code CHORUSMEMBER to activate your discount.
Workshop Details
Join Rosi Amador for a hands-on celebration of Latin rhythms, voice, and collective sound. Discover the orchestra within! You’ll explore
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Cuban salsa, Afro-Puerto Rican bomba, Afro-Uruguayan candombe, Brazilian rhythm games, and Venezuelan joropo
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Playful vocal and body-percussion patterns woven with rhythmic improvisation
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How to recreate the sounds of instruments, including piano (drum), barril, cua, chico, repique, claves, congas, maracas, campana (cowbell), and more
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Vocal improvisation techniques from the beloved Brazilian troupe Música do Círculo
In this dynamic workshop, Rosi Amador will guide you through select vocal percussion and improvisation techniques inspired by Caribbean and South American rhythms. You'll embody the sounds of a Cuban salsa band, a Puerto Rican bomba group, and much more. No experience is necessary — just your voice, your body, and your curiosity.
In addition to improvisation, participants will learn a song in the workshop which they are invited to sing along with the band in the evening concert.
About Rosi Amador: Rosi Amador is a Puerto Rican/Argentine vocalist, percussionist, and educator with over 17 years of study in vocal improvisation and body percussion with world-renowned teachers, including her primary mentor Rhiannon (a close collaborator of Bobby McFerrin). She attended Bobby McFerrin's Circle Singing School in 2022 and also studied Latin vocal percussion with one of the founders of Vocal Sampling, the groundbreaking Cuban ensemble known for recreating entire salsa bands using only the human voice.
Rosi cofounded her first Latin band with her husband Brian Amador in 1984. Together, they founded Sol y Canto in 1994, now celebrating its 31st anniversary. She regularly teaches this workshop across the United States, Argentina, Brazil, and Spain.
About Sol y Canto
Sol y Canto is the award winning Pan-Latin ensemble led by Puerto Rican/Argentine singer and percussionist Rosi Amador and New Mexican guitarist, singer and composer Brian Amador. Featuring Rosi’s crystalline voice and Brian’s lush Spanish guitar and inventive compositions, Sol y Canto is known for making their music accessible to Spanish- and non-Spanish speaking audiences of all ages. In this concert, Rosi and Brian will be joined by Queralt Giralt on cello/vocals, Paul Lieberman on winds, and Keala Kaumeheiwa on acoustic bass.
Sol y Canto’s original songs are distinguished by poetic, often quirky lyrics set in a framework of varied musical styles with surprising twists. They can make you dance, laugh, cry and sigh all in one concert. Their arrangements of classic and contemporary Latin tunes are always fresh and original. With Brian’s commanding, intricate guitar playing, Rosi’s rhythmic drive on cajón and bongos, and liberal use of vocal improvisation, the duo often sounds like a much larger ensemble.
Since 1994, Sol y Canto has brought audiences to their feet from the Kennedy Center to the California World Music Festival, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Puerto Rico’s Museo de Arte and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well as countless club shows and house concerts. The Boston Globe hails them as “sublime ambassadors of the Pan-Latin tradition”. Music critic Norman Weinstein of the Christian Science Monitor and Boston Phoenix observes:
“Every Sol y Canto album is a demonstration of what the poet Federico García Lorca identified as deep song. Always they evoke the sensual splendor of simply being vitally, vividly alive in a magical and mysterious universe. Brian Amador is a Spanish modernist poet in the guise of a musician…Together, Rosi and Brian Amador create a musical marriage made in heaven.”
This residency is supported in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Couch Family Foundation.
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Join award-winning Pan-Latin ensemble Sol y Canto for a concert and workshop, hosted by Upper Valley Music Center!
Workshop: Body & Voice, A Latin Orchestra with Rosi Amador of Sol y Canto
Friday, October 2, 5-6:30 pm
Norwich Congregational Church, Norwich, VT
Concert: Sol y Canto
Friday, October 2, 7:30 pm
Norwich Congregational Church, Norwich, VT
Community Chorus at UVMC and Children's Chorus members receive a $10 discount towards either the concert or workshop! Use code CHORUSMEMBER to activate your discount.
Workshop Details
Join Rosi Amador for a hands-on celebration of Latin rhythms, voice, and collective sound. Discover the orchestra within! You’ll explore
-
Cuban salsa, Afro-Puerto Rican bomba, Afro-Uruguayan candombe, Brazilian rhythm games, and Venezuelan joropo
-
Playful vocal and body-percussion patterns woven with rhythmic improvisation
-
How to recreate the sounds of instruments, including piano (drum), barril, cua, chico, repique, claves, congas, maracas, campana (cowbell), and more
-
Vocal improvisation techniques from the beloved Brazilian troupe Música do Círculo
In this dynamic workshop, Rosi Amador will guide you through select vocal percussion and improvisation techniques inspired by Caribbean and South American rhythms. You'll embody the sounds of a Cuban salsa band, a Puerto Rican bomba group, and much more. No experience is necessary — just your voice, your body, and your curiosity.
In addition to improvisation, participants will learn a song in the workshop which they are invited to sing along with the band in the evening concert.
About Rosi Amador: Rosi Amador is a Puerto Rican/Argentine vocalist, percussionist, and educator with over 17 years of study in vocal improvisation and body percussion with world-renowned teachers, including her primary mentor Rhiannon (a close collaborator of Bobby McFerrin). She attended Bobby McFerrin's Circle Singing School in 2022 and also studied Latin vocal percussion with one of the founders of Vocal Sampling, the groundbreaking Cuban ensemble known for recreating entire salsa bands using only the human voice.
Rosi cofounded her first Latin band with her husband Brian Amador in 1984. Together, they founded Sol y Canto in 1994, now celebrating its 31st anniversary. She regularly teaches this workshop across the United States, Argentina, Brazil, and Spain.
About Sol y Canto
Sol y Canto is the award winning Pan-Latin ensemble led by Puerto Rican/Argentine singer and percussionist Rosi Amador and New Mexican guitarist, singer and composer Brian Amador. Featuring Rosi’s crystalline voice and Brian’s lush Spanish guitar and inventive compositions, Sol y Canto is known for making their music accessible to Spanish- and non-Spanish speaking audiences of all ages. In this concert, Rosi and Brian will be joined by Queralt Giralt on cello/vocals, Paul Lieberman on winds, and Keala Kaumeheiwa on acoustic bass.
Sol y Canto’s original songs are distinguished by poetic, often quirky lyrics set in a framework of varied musical styles with surprising twists. They can make you dance, laugh, cry and sigh all in one concert. Their arrangements of classic and contemporary Latin tunes are always fresh and original. With Brian’s commanding, intricate guitar playing, Rosi’s rhythmic drive on cajón and bongos, and liberal use of vocal improvisation, the duo often sounds like a much larger ensemble.
Since 1994, Sol y Canto has brought audiences to their feet from the Kennedy Center to the California World Music Festival, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Puerto Rico’s Museo de Arte and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well as countless club shows and house concerts. The Boston Globe hails them as “sublime ambassadors of the Pan-Latin tradition”. Music critic Norman Weinstein of the Christian Science Monitor and Boston Phoenix observes:
“Every Sol y Canto album is a demonstration of what the poet Federico García Lorca identified as deep song. Always they evoke the sensual splendor of simply being vitally, vividly alive in a magical and mysterious universe. Brian Amador is a Spanish modernist poet in the guise of a musician…Together, Rosi and Brian Amador create a musical marriage made in heaven.”
This residency is supported in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Couch Family Foundation.
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