The Peruvian Cajon is a very commonly used instrument in Afro-Peruvian music and Peruvian music in general. The fifth anniversary of the Cajon Festival took place this year and it was a complete ...

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The Organization of American States on Saturday held a special ceremony to pay tribute to the Peruvian culture by declaring the Peruvian Cajon an "Instrument of Peru for the Americas." In this ...

Thousands of people in Peru have attempted to break the Guinness World Record for the largest cajon ensemble. The cajon is a wooden box with a sound hole on one side which is played by slapping ...

On the night of June 4, the Plaza Mayor of Lima was lit up with lights and colours, as the sounds of zapateo and cajon resonated through the public square in celebration of National Afro-Peruvian ...

Peru’s decision to shrink its archeological park home to the famous Nazca Lines by around 42% — an area roughly the size of 1,400 soccer fields — has sparked alarm among conservationists ...

For more than 30 years, singer Eva Ayllon has been a strong advocate for black Peruvian music. ... which features call-and-response vocals and a box-shaped percussion instrument called the cajon.

EL CAJON, Calif. — Terrell Gibbs, a 47-year-old man, is in custody and facing homicide charges after fatally shooting a man in El Cajon, Thursday morning. According to a press release from the ...

Eva Ayllon is sometimes called Peru's Tina Turner. On Kimba Fa, the 30-year veteran takes all sorts of liberties with Afro-Peruvian music, adding in piano and sometimes a brass section, as well as ...

Thousands of people in Peru have attempted to break the Guinness World Record for the largest cajon ensemble. The cajon is a wooden box with a sound hole on one side which is played by slapping ...

A lively celebration as Peruvians hold festival in honor of the cajon drum, and attempt to break the Guinness record for Largest Cajon Ensemble. Gavino Garay reports.

A lively celebration as Peruvians hold festival in honor of the cajon drum, and attempt to break the Guinness record for Largest Cajon Ensemble. Gavino Garay reports.