PRESS RELEASE

UW Ethnomusicology Visiting Artists: "Latin Caribbean Music and Balinese Gamelan"
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Concert:
UW Ethnomusicology Visiting Artists: Joe Santiago & I Wayan Sinti,
"Latin Caribbean Music and Balinese Gamelan"

Date/Time:
Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 7:30 p.m.

Location:
Meany Theater, University of Washington, Seattle

Tickets:
$15 general, $12 student/senior
(206)543-4880
www.music.washington.edu

Program:
Joe Santiago, bass player for Eddie Palmieri, Tito Puente, and many luminaries of Latin music, leads an ensemble performing salsa, Latin jazz, and other Afro-Caribbean music.

I Wayan Sinti, distinguished performer, composer, and teacher from Bali, returns with an exciting program of Gamelan Gambuh, including a solo dance by Cokorde Istri Nilawati, and Gamelan Siwa Nada. Pak Sinti created the nine-tone tuning system for the Gamelan Siwa Nada based on the Balinese vocal genre Wirama. Because of the unique tuning system, this gamelan is the only one of its kind in the world. The gamelan's name literally means "Gamelan of the God Shiva," the Hindu god and creator of the arts. It was constructed in Seattle by Pak Sinti and his wife Nilawati, and nine UW students.