Kansas City jazz musicians travel to Chile to share KC culture, music

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A bunch of Kansas Metropolis jazz musicians traveled to Frutillar, Chile, on Saturday to carry out their music and have interaction in cultural change as a part of a mission two years within the making.

From Monday by means of Thursday, the group will carry out within the annual Semanas Musicales de Frutillar, or the Frutillar Music Weeks competition.

These musicians, who’re a part of the United Nations Training Science and Cultural Group (UNESCO), have been hardly singing the blues as they departed.

“I’m wanting ahead to heading to Chile, studying their tradition and music,” flutist Amber Underwood mentioned. “However then coming again and actually telling individuals what we’ve finished and what UNESCO’s all about.”

Vocalist Paula Saunders Lewis mentioned over the past two years, the group coordinated with Chilean musicians and carried out by means of Zoom.

“After we performed ‘Summertime,’ they knew precisely what that was,” she mentioned.

Now, due to the U.S. Embassy in Chile sponsoring the journey, and the Kansas Metropolis Museum, these Kansas Metropolis Jazz musicians will be capable of carry out for the residents of Chile in individual. They can even maintain music classes with youngsters.

College of Missouri – Kansas Metropolis professor Jake Wagner mentioned the change is a chance to construct partnerships that span nations. The musicians who got down to share Kansas Metropolis jazz with Chile maintain the identical optimistic perspective.

“Music is a common language,” pianist Angela Ward mentioned. “The notes would be the identical, the kinds can be range, however we’ll all be on one chord after we play that music collectively.”

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