The Sound of GarífunAmérica: Aurelio Martínez in Conversation with Natalia Algarín
NYU’s Hemispheric Institute
in collaboration with
The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
present a special evening of music and storytelling
The Sound of GarífunAmérica:
Aurelio Martínez in Conversation with Natalia Algarín
Friday February 18 @ 6 pm - 8 pm EST
Broadcast live from 370 Jay Street, Studio 2, Brooklyn, New York
Co-sponsored by NYU’s Institute of African American Affairs
and the Center for Black Visual Culture
Garífuna singer-songwriter, guitarist, and percussionist Aurelio Martínez is one of Central America’s most gifted composers and performers. Born in Honduras, the artist is known for his powerful and evocative voice and for compositions that bring a modern expression to Garífuna music. He is a major tradition-bearer of Garífuna diasporic culture, a former Honduran congressman, and a global ambassador for the Garífuna nation. His albums have been named to multiple year-end critics lists, including The Sunday Times and The Guardian. Roots named Martínez as “the finest living exponent of the music of the Garifuna people” and The London Evening Standard called him “one of the great artists of Latin America." Martínez joins NYU’s Hemispheric Institute as artist in residence during the 2022 calendar year as part of the Mellon Foundation’s World Making and Social Emergency Initiative.
As a kick-off event for a new partnership between the Hemispheric Institute and the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Martínez will perform music and engage in discussion at NYU’s 370 Jay Street campus in Brooklyn. Martinez will be joined by festival curator and manager Natalia Algarín.
They will discuss Garífuna cultural history, Martínez’s personal history and formation as a musician, his priorities as a composer and performer, the connection between Garífuna music and Latin and World music, and how Martínez’s work builds the future of music from GarífunaAmérica.
The event will be broadcast live via Zoom.
To watch the livestream, please register here.
The live broadcast will be in Spanish.
For more information, please visit:
https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/events/the-sound-of-garifunaamerica.html