El origen del Chamamé - Una historia para ser contada

Hailed by The Boston Globe as a "premier exponent of Chamamé", Brazil-based Argentine composer, accordionist, and researcher Alejandro Brittes explores his chamamé heritage, an ancestral rhythm connecting us with the Earth and the Universe through music and dance, born of the encounter between the ritual musicality of the Indigenous Guaraní and Baroque music within the context of the Jesuit missions in a cultural microregion encompassing parts of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay which extends through the waterways in these nations, as described in Brittes´ book A Origem do Chamamé. Chamamé is declared as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.

Alejandro Brittes is a composer, researcher, author, and musician. Brittes' parents migrated from the interior of the Province of Corrientes to Buenos Aires, where his father was a pioneering chamamé event organizer and his mother a chamamé radio host, both attending to the cultural needs of the rural migrant community in the city. It was in this environment that Brittes was born and raised, amongst the most-respected chamamé musicians and ensembles, beginning his professional career at 15 years old. Following the success of his 2023 U.S. East Coast tour – being featured at Library of Congress - Alejandro Brittes returns in 2024, this time to the West, performing at festivals, universities, historical sites, libraries, museums, etc., giving trilingual lecture-demonstrations, and engaging in musical collaborations with diverse border Roots Music masters.