The NYC Andean Music Festival is a unique cultural event produced in partnership with the Queens Museum’s “Family Day Series.” The festival both honors the cultural resiliency of Andean music from the homeland to the diaspora and highlights the tradition’s burgeoning female protagonists. Focused particularly on music and dance traditions from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, enjoy live performances via the atrium mainstage, Quechua language and instrument workshops and authentic craft and food vendors.

About Inkarayku

Inkarayku Music seeks to link the past, present and future of Andean arts, through the performance of indigenous music forms that have evolved into the contemporary mestizo music heard today. Inkarayku’s sound blends the organic power of Quechua folk songs with the energy and edge unique to our City that never sleeps. The band’s diverse line-up brings together a river of musical and artistic experience resulting in Andean folk music that transcends cultural boundaries and seamlessly shares the stage with other folk traditions of the Americas.