Cuatro-pr.org Website Review

the puerto rican cuatro project cultural archives                folkloric oue most polished and tasty exponents of the puerto rican mountain music traditions, ecos de borinquen, has just released its second recording for the smithsonian institute—their first one being jibaro hasta el hueso their latest noble effort visiting their page at the smithsonian folkways puerto ricans mourn the pas*ing of the senior cuatro-maker foto de juan sotomayor para el proyecto del cuatro puertorriqueño it grieves us to have to announce to our followers the death late june 2015 of the renown senior puerto rican traditional instrument-maker vicente valentín rivera, who lived and worked in the town of vega baja. don vicente was a principal source for our cuatro project. with great humor and generosity, he made himself available to our cameras and constant questions. his rustic and prosaic manner hid a brilliant and profound understanding of his field, the traditions of his craft and a propensity to share and educate his compatriots around them. from the casa paoli collection museo de las américas in old san juan strings of my land: a history of puerto rico's native stringed instruments: cuatro, tiple, vihuela and bordonua. hardcover, 300 pages, 350 photos and diagrams in spanish, including a 15-page chapter summary. a production of the puerto rican cuatro project now available. the culmination of 22 years of field research and oral history in the field of puerto rican folkloric music and music craft traditions. eugenio méndez four months before his pas*ing in 2003                       photo by  xiaomin xiong spurred by the recent receipt of this wonderful photograph of the great builder, we pause to remember the pas*ing of the man believed by many to be puerto rico's finest cuatro maker—precisely 10 years ago this december. read about his craft in his own words here the highbridge section of the bronx celebrated the street re-naming of ogden avenue on 162nd & summit to yomo toro place on saturday, july