Superfolk: Global Strings – Sophie Lukacs feat. Trio Guadalevín
$20 + sales tax
- Sophie Lukacs, kora
- Antonio Gómez, percussion
- August "Gus" Denhard, lute, theorbo, baroque guitar, oud, & vihuela
- Abel Rocha, voice
Join us for an evening celebrating the rich sounds that emanate from around the world. Opening the evening are hometown heroes Trio Guadalevín, followed by rising start and Canadian kora player Sophie Lukacs.
About Trío Guadalevín
A unique collaboration between a folklorist from Mexico City, a lute/oud/guitar player specializing in the early music of Europe, and a globe-traveling percussionist and arts educator, Trío Guadalevín explores the musical dialogue between Indigenous, European, and African cultures that define Latin American identity. With memorable stories and an incredible array of instruments from the Americas, Africa, and Europe, the trio weaves together a tapestry of music, languages, culture, history, and geography. They move seamlessly between the past and present, employing a mix of contemporary, folkloric, and historic melodies sung in Spanish, Zapotec, and Ladino, which ride on rhythms from the Afro-Indigenous son jarocho to the Italian tarantella and Moroccan shabia.
https://www.facebook.com/TrioGuadalevin/About Sophie Lukacs, kora
Sophie Lukacs, a Budapest-born, Montreal-based artist of Jewish Hungarian descent, began her musical journey with the violin and Western classical music. Inspired by her grandmother, Holocaust survivor Eva Fahidi, Sophie's passion for music led her to study International Development and Music at McGill University. Her path took a transformative turn in Burkina Faso, where she discovered the kora, a traditional West African instrument.
Despite the kora being traditionally reserved for men of the griot caste, Sophie pursued her passion. After a fateful encounter with kora master Malang Jobarteh in New York, she immersed herself in kora studies, eventually learning from legends like Toumani Diabaté in Paris and Bamako.
https://www.sophielukacs.com/About Antonio Gómez, percussion
Born in South Texas to a Chicano activist and an Italian American VISTA volunteer, Tony moved often growing up. Music and language became constant companions in decoding ever-changing cultural ecologies between South Texas, the Bay Area, and Tucson. This trajectory formed his calling to develop cultural dialogue and empathy. Tony specializes in not belonging anywhere, but making friends everywhere. Mestizaje—a mixed identity formed at the intersection of cultures—shapes his work as a musician, curator, educator, and producer. Having studied on four continents, he plays Afro-Latin, Mediterranean, and Arabic percussion. Previously a K12 teacher, he has served as an educator and curriculum writer for public television and is now the Education Manager at Tacoma Arts Live. Being a working musician is indivisible from being educator, an arts administrator, and a parent. The same heart that draws him to teach compels him to speak through the drum.
Antonio M. Gómez received a 2018 James W. Ray Venture Project Award for Raíz y Rama (Root and Branch), an effort to disrupt stereotypical notions of Mexican identity by exploring the complexity and diversity of Mexican musical traditions. The project centers on Trío Guadalevín and occurs in two parts: 1) An "encuentro" encounter—with scholars and folklorists in Mexico City, including learning sessions and shared performance 2) A 5-day tour to provide bilingual performances in community venues and schools in Yakima, the Tri-Cities, Walla Walla, and Wenatchee. Mexico's musical traditions are historic legacies: the reinvention of Indigenous music in Oaxaca; West African resilience in the son jarocho of Veracruz, Baroque forms realized in Nahuatl voices, medieval poetry developed in Spanish, descending from Arabic poetic traditions of Muslim Spain. The project spotlights this rich heritage even as it makes it widely accessible to all-age audiences across the state.
https://earlymusicseattle.org/antonio-gomez/