An influential music magazine Rolling Stone this orchestra album Let’s Go Guarachar! (2016) recognized it as one of the best albums of latino music and described it as a “revolution in latino music”. Let’s Go Guarachar! translated from Spanish is “let’s go celebrate!”.
“Sergio Mendoza and La Orkesta is an outstanding indie mambo orchestra from Tucson, Arizona, which in 2017 was declared one of the most successful and interesting associations in Latin music. The interplay of Latin American percussion, accordion, saxophone, trumpet, double bass, violin, clarinet and guitar and the voices of the ensemble create loud, stormy mambo and cumbia music with an intense touch of psychedelic music, forming a quality and sometimes even supernatural sound. Trizna: The orchestra was founded in 2009 by a charismatic singer and guitarist Serhio Mendosa who is also the leader of this group. The orchestra is actually a comprehensive ensemble of talented musicians consisting of seven members. These are: Serhio Mendoza (voice, piano, guitar), James Peter (drums, percussion), Marco Rosano (saxophone, clarinet, accordion, trombone), Sean Rogers (double bass), Raoul Marche (trumpet, guitar, voice), Brian Lopez (guitar, voice) and Ketals Gerrero (violin, voice).
Sergio Mendoza and La Orkesta The performance has made an unforgettable impression at many very different music festivals, such as Latin Pachanga and Santiago de Compostela In Spain. International World Music Forum WOMEX The orchestra has performed as many as three times, which is a very rare rarity in the United States. On the day of the concert on Monday, May 30, at At 13.00, the group’s creator Serhio Mendosa will also lead a master class for students of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music.
The concert is organized by the Wooden Architecture Foundation and is supported by the US Embassy in Latvia. The concert starts at Kalnciema market at 35 Kalnciema Street in Riga at 7 pm Tickets are available on the website www.aula.lv, where, by the way, you can also prepare well in advance to celebrate the mood of the upcoming concert by listening Mendoza Orchestra award-winning music album Let’s Go Guarachar! compositions.
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