| Gather with friends - new and old - in stunning Frick Park. Laugh, cry, (and maybe dance in your seat) to haunting melodies inspired by the rich life of Violeta Parra. | | Emily Pinkerton - Composer/Ensemble.
Emily is a singer, composer, and ethnomusicologist who has divided her time between the U.S. and Chile for over 20 years. A member of the award-winning folk trio The Early Mays, she divides her time between performing and teaching. During her extensive time in Santiago, Chile, she became a fan of Violeta Parra and studied the 25-string guitarrón with Alfonso Rubio, Osvaldo Ulloa, and Santos Rubio. This guitarrón features in Looking for Violeta, along with several other traditional Andean instruments, many from her personal collection. | | | 
| Looking for Violeta Carolina Loyola-Garcia stars as Violeta Parra, the legendary Chilean folk musician and visual artist. Pablo Neruda introduced her authentic interpretation of Chilean folk music to the world. Joan Baez sang her songs and emulated her activism. The Louvre exhibited her embroideries. And yet she eludes easy understanding and left us too soon, so we take the attitude of her brother, poet Nicanor Parra, played by internationally acclaimed opera singer Eugene Perry. He serves as our guide as we seek her essence in hauntingly beautiful music composed by Emily Pinkerton. Parra elevated all South American people, her music synonymous with protest movements that resisted dictatorships and improved the lives of thousands. We've erected a tent – a Quantum first – in Frick Park, representative of Violeta's peñas - where music and dancing, food and drink provided cover for activism. Feel free to picnic in the park before the show, and then join us under the tent (in our comfortable chairs) to celebrate Violeta's inspiration, in six-part harmony with a live four-piece band. | | | | |
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