Celebrating 20 years of MusicMaking, Education Programs
SIRIUS COYOTE
DUO
and Community Building
Giovanni Ciarlo
and Kathleen Sartor
perform musical renditions of original and traditional songs from various cultures of the Americas. Many of their instruments are intended to reproduce sounds occurring in nature: of the wind, birds, animals, waterfalls, oceans, the jungle and deserts. They use these instruments in combination with more traditional ones such as guitar, flutes, drums and voice to produce music both ancient and contemporary.
Programs feature:
- LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC AND STORIES
- CULTURAL DIVERSITY THROUGH MUSIC
- ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS
- HANDS ON AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
- HISTORY AND FOLKLORE OF THE AMERICAS
- SPANISH SONGS FOR ALL AGES
- SIMILAR REPERTOIRE AS LARGER BAND
Giovanni Ciarlo is an artist, craftsperson, educator and folklorist with extensive Latin American musical experience. He has lived and worked in Venezuela, Mexico, Europe and the U.S. performing and teaching about global cultures and communities. Giovanni is a Connecticut Master Teaching Artist and is listed with the New England Foundation for the Arts. He plays the guitar and a wide assortment of percussion instruments he makes (berimbau, kalimba, log drums, turtle shell, congas, whistles...) or has
collected (charango, guiro, bells...) from Latin America, where he was raised. He is also the lead singer and arranger for their World Music band. Giovanni has been a long-time sustainable communities activist serving on the Board of Directors of the Global Ecovillage Network since 2003 and on the Council of the Ecovillkage Network of the Americas since 1999.
Find both at: www.ecovillage.orgKathleen Sartor studied history and Latin American studies at the University of Minnesota. She first learned music on the accordion and now plays bombo, rainsticks, kalimba, various drums, and assorted musical surprises. She has spent the past 25 years traveling and studying the myths, music and theatre arts of the Americas. Kathleen is also a founding member of Sirius Coyote Music. She is a gifted actress and storyteller. Her voice and rythms are clear, intimate and pasionate, with a deep understanding of Latin American oral traditions aquired during trips to Colombia and Peru and long residences in Mexico, where she shares a home with Giovanni in the ecovillage they co-founded in 1982.
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