PLEASE HELP THE CHILDREN OF CHILE have a MERRY CHRISTMAS Where: Art House Gallery & Cultural Center               2905 Shattuck Ave.               Berkeley Ca, 94705 When: Friday Dec 3rd Donation $50.00 - $10.00 Time: 7-10:30 pm Info: Harold Adler 510-472-3170 A benefit concert for Chilean children victims of the February earthquake   Donations for international aid are needed especially for Christmas time…give a gift worth giving.   RAFAEL & INGRID + QUIJEREMA IN CONCERT!!! Rafael Manríquez has been one of the leading exponents of Latin American music in the San Francisco Bay Area for over twenty years. Originally from Santiago, Chile, Rafael brings us the gift of both his exquisite voice and remarkable skill on Latin American string instruments, ranging from the guitar to the charango to the cuatro and tiple. Rafael is a passionate and well-loved composer and performer. Through his music, he reveals the richness of Latin folk rhythms influenced by the Spanish, Native American and African cultures. His lyrics reflect the struggles and hopes of the people of this continent. He has performed throughout the Americas and Europe. His music has been recorded on over ten albums. Rafael Manríquez and Ingrid Rubis specialize in Latin American music from the past and the present. They sing and play guitar, charango, quena and zampoñas (from Bolivia), cuatro (from Venezuela), cajón (from Peru) and bombo (from Argentina) as well as many other folk instruments. Residents of Berkeley, California, they have been performing together for over 4 years. www.rafaelmanriquez.com quijeremá  "A potent mix of Latin American folk music and jazz" - Jesse Hamlin, SF Chronicle   "Using various methods of artistic expression, Quijeremá is more than just a band. They are poets and multi-media designers. Combining sounds from almost all over Latin America, their music contains a multi-cultural vibe that is guaranteed to impress anyone." - SFReMezcla Quijeremá is a fine-tuned San Francisco Bay Area based quintet that has been recreating the concept of mixtura in World Music. The ensemble infuses their original contemporary Latin American compositions with a deep sense of unique ancient musical traditions. Still, the blending of rhythm, texture, and color in their music is seamless, transparent and one-of-a-kind. As writer Willy Lizarraga states, Quijeremá “...manages to render a whole constellation of South American rhythms into a jazz idiom... how the cueca from Chile, tango from Argentina, waltz at its most Latin, landó from Peru, joropo from Venezuela, huaino from the Andes fuse into a musical continuum whose identity, no matter how jazzy, always remains rooted in the deep South, not of the U.S. but of the Americas.”   Members of the ensemble play over thirty instruments, and have performed worldwide and appeared on regional, national and international radio and television. Founded in 2002, Quijeremá is: Quique Cruz (Chile: strings, Andean wind instruments & percussion) Jeremy Allen (USA: bass & percussion) Maria Fernanda Acuña (Venezuela: percussion & venezuelan cuatro) Elijah Samuels (USA: saxophones, clarinet) www.quijerema.com    Featuring: Guest Artists:Patrick Fahey and LeAnna Sharp