Folk music from Peru - Andean Peruvian Guitar in Miraflores Lima

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Folk music from Peru - Andean Peruvian Guitar, The Peru's traditional folk music, huayno, is a type of music and dance that originated in the Andean mountains. Huayno is the oldest traditional folkloric music in Peru and expresses the emotions of the Andean people. For more info visit our website:

ANDEAN GUITAR - PERU
The guitar is an instrument that Spanish settlers introduced to Peru, but the indigenous Quechuan people of the Andes adopted it to perform their traditional music. Peru's traditional guitar has a smaller variant called the "charango". Other instruments used in Peruvian music include the flute, the antara or zampoña, and the cojon.
Afro-Peruvian music, also known as "música negra", is a blend of West African music and Spanish music. It features flamenco-influenced guitar, as well as a range of percussion instruments such as the box-like Cajón, the cajita, and the cowbell

Andean Music
Along the Peruvian Andes, in every town, there are a variety of songs and dances. In Inca times, the word “taki” as used to refer simultaneously to both song and dance, as both activities were not separated from one another. Now, Andean music is blended, even most used instruments in the Andes is mestizo. In Arequipa and Southern Andes has spread greatly yaraví, melancholic style of singing, which is one of the most widespread types of singing. An Andean song that is the Condors passes, a traditional song composed by the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles, it was popularized in the United States by the duo Simon & Garfunkel. The original composition is a hymn to the sun, slowly, followed by a leak kashwa and Huayno.
Then there is the huaylas, a cheerful rhythm of the central Andes. This is another widespread type of song and dance. In Ancash is grown rhythms of huayno, chuscada, pasacalle and cashua. The huayno is the genre of popular Andean music, although its origin can be traced to the Inca period, so it seems to be purely a creation mestiza. Variants are grown throughout the Peruvian highlands. A similar genre is the tondero northern Peruvian coast