Free 7th Annual Berkeley World Music Festival coming to Telegraph Ave, Saturday, June 5, 2010 Continuous music outdoors & in cafes + crafts bazaar ~ Something for Everyone! The Berkeley World music Festival has some of our best world musicians who call East Bay home. The Festival is 9 hours of free continuous music, in various cafes & music stores along Telegraph Avenue + People's Park. The festival's epicenter is Telegraph Avenue at Haste Street. People can pick up event schedules at the …

We in Quijeremá have been affected greatly by the devastation in Chile and are helping to fundraise with our performances and send aid to our chileno/a brother and sister artists. Quijeremá will be supporting with their performances “ Sala Arte Café Viejo” - a Chilean artist’s collective located in the central coast of the country. The artists at “Café Viejo” are close friends of ours and some of the best artists, painters, musicians and artisans …

I n the plains of Venezuela, the bandola is a cultural icon of fierce agile improvisation and above all, tradition. It is the maverick step-child of Joropo —a music that symbolizes the character of a country —a distinct Venezuelan musical soul; ever-changing, independent, jubilant and nostalgic. Then, musician/composer Quique Cruz left the how-to-play bandola instruction manual in a Caracas hotel just before returning to San Francisco. Now what? The bandola llanera, is emblematic of the folk …

Our film Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi was recently nominated for an award by the noted International Documentary Association, a Los Angeles-based organization that promotes non-fiction filmmaking, with the participation of 53 countries.

The film was a finalist in the Music Film category The awards ceremony, hosted by This American Life's Ira Glass, took place on Dec. 4 at the Directors Guild in Los Angeles. We were pleased to attend the ceremony in the company of many other great artists.

Archeology of Memory, which was directed and produced by Quique Cruz and Marilyn Mulford, debuted in 2008 and has appeared in many film festivals in the U.S. and abroad, including the Mill Valley Film Festival where it won the Audience Prize and was selected among the ten best films in the Vancouver Internacional Film Festival. In October of this year, it was shown nationally on PBS as part of the documentary film series Global Voices.

The September 2009 performance of Quijeremá at the Red Poppy Art House was featured in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Quijeremá was a 2009 resident artist at the Poppy and performed monthly with a different theme and invited special guests. September featured Chilean singer-songwiriter Rafael Manriquez and a selected repertoire of Latin American Nueva Cancion material.

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Quijeremá in the San Francisco Bay Guardian