Come make a traditional gourd rattle for Day of the Dead with Martin Espino

Come make a traditional gourd rattle for Day of the Dead with Martin Espino

In honor of Dia de los Muertos, La Vida Loca galeria is
teaming up with well-known, professor of instruments from ancient Mexico, Martin Espino, to have a workshop, making traditional gourd rattles and decorate them with a skull or Calavera face.

Details:

Workshop:  Traditional Gourd Rattle

Date:        October22, 2011

Time:        10:00am o 2:00pm

Location:   5050 York Blvd, Los Angeles, 90042

Phone:      323 739 6009

Cost:       $25 for early bird reservation and payment/ $35 the day of.

Class is limited to 20 students and rated to be an intermediate level technically, please no children under the age of 16.

During this 4 hour class you will be cleaning, preparing and
decorating the gourd. You will get lots of tips, assistance and knowledge about, not just the making of this ancient instrument, but in its significance and traditional use as well. While your rattles dry Martin will introduce you to a few of his other instruments and the wonderful music they can make. He will also give a quick lesson on how to play and care for your new traditional gourd rattles.

Sign up now, space is limited.

Martin Espino  is of Indigenous Yaqui and Tepehuano ancestry.  He began music at age 11, and eventually became a very well rounded musician, in that he was first, "street trained"(playing by ear), then "classically trained" and finally, "folklore/indigena trained"!

He has been teaching adults and children since age 13 and has been a professional musician since 1968.  He has studied his ancient Mexican heritage and its musical practices since 1975.

Martin began building instruments in 1990 and since then has made over 50,000. His instruments can be found in museums, schools and performing arts centers!

He is an expert in working with bamboo and gourd! In 1980 he pioneered what is called "Interactive  Performance", an innovative interactive program illuminating the heritage of the ancient Americas,
especially Mexico, which is how he teaches and performs today.

Currently he tours nationally and internationally as well as
teaches, lectures, records, builds instruments and composes.