Tonight was another House Concert from Colibri Conciertos, which are hosted in private homes or boutique hotels in Cuenca. Mara Gano (lower right) organizes these special monthly events featuring talented local (and frequently world-class) concert musicians. This month, 30 guests were invited to the home of Greg and Charlene Redenbacher.

Guests were treated to hear a rare performance combining the charango and piano. The charango is a 10-string instrument, a small Bolivian/Andean relative of the guitar and ukelele.  This performance  featured Adrian Ortiz on charango (middle left and bottom left), Estefani Ortiz singing South American songs (upper left and right), and Daniel Brito (the pianist and lead musician at every house concert) on keyboard (top middle and bottom middle).  Gloria Uyaguari has been Evelyn’s Spanish teacher  for the past three years, and is the mother of Estefani and wife of Adrian.  The family asked us to record the performance, which we were happy to do.

In all, 15 videos were made of 15 musical pieces performed.  They can all be seen on my Facebook timeline (burt.johnson980), or they can all be seen here on Vimeo.

One of the songs performed tonight was Angel de Luz.  If you are interested, here are the lyrics for the song, in Spanish, or course.

Stephanie Ortiz sings Angel de luz from Burt Johnson on Vimeo.