The Rain-Stick or "Palo de Lluvia"

A rainstick is a long, hollow tube which is filled with small pebbles or beans and has small pins or thorns arranged helically on its inside surface.

Chilean Chinchineros

Chinchinero is an street performer who dances while plays a big drums attached to his back.

 

The Colombian Gaita

 

Today I met a guy who plays “Colombian Gaita”

The Colombian Gaita is made from the tube that transports the juice of the heart of a cactus. And when is drained after boiling it gets really hard and is ready for the building of this special instrument.

L' Organetto Diatonico

L' Organetto DiatonicoThis post most be written with Italics, right?

Il Organetto Diatonico (Diatonic Little Organ)

The Diatonic Organetto is a wind musical instrument, but not as flutes or trumpets, is more relative to the big organ, the Organetto is a small mechanical device that sounds really nice and doesn’t have keyboard as the traditional accordion. Invented in Viena around 1829 was really popular all around Europe and brought to America later where became popular, especially in Argentina by Tango musicians.

I want to share this

I want to share something that happened to me, few years ago (2007).

Mexican Enfrijoladas

Hi. As a Mexican living in the USA, sometimes I miss eating some real Mexican food and Taco Bell is not the best option. So after years of trying to find real Mexican food I found my own way to cook some real traditional Mexican dishes and today I decided to share with you one of them.

While life is still going on

I'll start posting some of my pictures, ideas and links to some other web sites, as well as musical links and information about some special events that I want to share and you don't want to miss.

Sorry in advance because some of these postings will be only in Spanish and no way to translate them.

Thanks for visiting

Victor Ruiz