The Zampoñistas are Australia’s
premier Bolivian Style Pan Pipe Marching Band. (Not much competition, you
say!)
Their act is unique. They are not your usual panpipe
band that you might see busking in the City Mall. The haunting tones
of the Andean panpipes and a heartbeat of percussion create a swirling,
syncopated, high energy chorus of sound, the like of which is rarely
heard outside the lands of the Inca realm.
Dressed in ponchos, they weave in and out of crowds, twisting,
turning and spinning as they play – totally engaging audiences and innocent
bystanders alike!
Some call it guerrilla music, some call it pop-up music.
The Zampoñistas play mostly traditional Inca tunes, and
they play it in the pre-Spanish Inca way – splitting up the musical scale
between two set of players. The Incas pioneered stereo sound! It creates
an exciting dynamic in the music.
They bring joy and delight wherever they play.
The Zampoñistas have performed at the Port Fairy and National
Folk Festivals, the Darebin Music Feast, Melbourne’s Ventana Latina festival
and many other community and music events.
The band is united by three things: their love of panpipe
music, their love of chocolate, and their unstoppable but totally irrational
belief in world domination by panpipes!
¡Viva los Zampoñistas!
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