The Ampay Carnival

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxHMTkZPn68

In Peru, music dates back to at least 10.000 years old due to recent archaeological discoveries of musical instruments, from that long tradition come the quenas, panpipes and a great variety of instruments.

The meeting of the Andean and the Western has given rise to more than 1.300 musical genres in Peru. But two of them have gone beyond the regional scope and have become symbols of Peruvian identity: the huayno and the marinera.

One of these expressions is a dance from the town of the province of Decal, Department of Cuzco. Its joyful and festive content is similar to the other peasant carnivals of Cuzco. It is the wild flowers that serve as the framework for the dance scenes, to the beat of the music of a huayno whose verses of love and request are in the purest Cuzco Quechua.

The women carry fruits and flowers in their little lights on their backs and dance girls and boys from Cuzco, making themselves the "SERRANO LOVE" with mischief and in very picturesque scenes.


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