Surprise for the evening:

Special guest and performance by "Romy Martinez"

Melodias Guaraní

Romy Martínez is a singer and ethnomusicologist. Her musical career and academic background are set between Paraguay (her country of birth) Brazil and Argentina.

Besides being a native speaker in Spanish and indigenous language Guarani, is proficient in Portuguese and English. She develops musical and research projects with artists and genres from different nationalities, especially those interrelating the cultural diversity in the Southern Cone of Latin America. As the founder of Purahei Trio, musicians from the aforementioned countries, she has released two albums and research work about a common regional musicality.

She holds an undergraduate degree in Music Education from UDESC and a masters

Latin America’s Integration Postgraduate Program (/USP), both obtained in Brazil. Besides, she in Argentinian music at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory in Buenos Aires. As a scholarship holder, she is a doctoral researcher from the Music Department of Royal Holloway University of London, focused on Paraguayan popular song, and the relations between bilingualism, exile identity in its interpretation

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGqmQf61_V2eif-WypmSCvg

Past Events

Mayo 2018 Fiesta de la Independencia

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Events

Event by Instituto Cervantes. Canning House and Birkbeck