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Black Hills News StoriesGo back to News ArticlesCrazy Horse to feature South American musiciansCRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL, S.D. (7/30/10) -- Family members from Ecuador will play traditional South American instruments at the free Thursday, Aug. 12, Summer Performance & Lecture Series program at Crazy Horse Memorial. Humberto Burga and Luis Rene' Saransig will begin their presentation of contemporary and traditional ethnic music at 6 p.m. in the Crazy Horse visitor complex.The men, brothers in law, are members of the Kichwa Nation, the indigenous tribal people of western Ecuador. Saransig said he has performed publicly since 1991 and toured in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Spain with the group "Ecuador Marka." He also played with the group "Taky Winds" at Crazy Horse in 1996, and has been a solo performer since 2002. "I dedicate all my work, first of all, to the elders, to the ones we owe everything, and also to thank my family for their support, their advice and their love," he said. Saransig said he will play the Rondador, "panpipes sounding like the winds." Burga, who now lives in Spain, will play the "Quenacho," a flute made from bamboo. The men and other family members, many living in Chicago, are among summer exhibitors at the Native American art market at Crazy Horse. Saransig and his wife, Sofia Farinango, won first in the jewelry division at the Memorial's 20th annual Gift from Mother Earth art show and sale last month. Burga won first in the show's leather category. The heads of the family, parents Jose Farinango Lema and Marina Manuela of the Deguche Reservation in Ecuador, have previously won the tapestry competition and presented several gifts of their traditional woolen weavings to Crazy Horse Memorial. People attending the Thursday programs are admitted free to Crazy Horse Memorial with three cans of food per person for the KOTA Care & Share Food Drive. Program audience members are welcome to tour the visitor complex, see the 7:15 p.m. weekday Lakota dance presentation on the viewing deck and stay for the "Legends in Light" laser-light show at 9:30 p.m. The Aug. 19 program will feature Hunkpapa-Oglala historian and storyteller Alton Little Soldier Belt, and the Aug. 26 final program will feature speakers Harriet Brings and her daughter Ailine Maea For more information, visit www.crazyhorsememorial.org. -30- **Hi-resolution images of performers are available for download by clicking on HUMBERTO BARGA and LUIS RENE SARANSIG. CONTACT: |
