The following excerpt is from a February 10, 2010 article published in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal Online.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Guatemala and Renaissance music do not go together in many people’s minds. Nevertheless, Ensemble Lipzodes will explore that correlation at their concert Saturday, presented by Early Music Now. [...]

The following excerpt is from a February 7, 2010 article published by The Washington Post.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. IPALA, GUATEMALA — Red-shirted mariachis stroll singing and strumming into the dusty yard of a whitewashed villa where roosters crow the dawn. The lyrics of their serenade compare a maiden’s [...]

The following excerpt is from a February 2nd, 2010 article published by Guatemala Daily Photo. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Luna De Xelaju: The Famous Guatemalan Waltz. “Moon of Xelajú”, has to be the most popular Guatemalan waltz played on marimba and quite possibly the most famous Guatemalan marimba song. [...]

The following excerpt is from a January 25, 2010 article published by Reuters.  To view the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Archeologists have discovered a huge Mayan sculptured head in Guatemala that suggests a little-known site in the jungle-covered Peten region may once have been a significant city. The [...]

The following excerpt was taken from an article published on NewsOK.com on January 17, 2010.  To read the article in full, please click here. CHICHICASTENANGO, GUATEMALA-It’s hard to miss the handwoven tapestries and delicately carved wooden masks that appear in the hundreds of wooden stalls that line the streets of this southwest Guatemalan city.  On [...]

More cultural insight! This is an article published about the national archaeological park, Tak’Alik Ab’aj. I encourage you to set aside time to read this fascinating article!To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Guatemala – The ancient history of Tak’alik Ab’aj is one of the most fascinating of Mesoamerica. The traces of [...]

The following excerpt is from a January 12, 2010 article published by Antigua Daily Photo. It provides an interesting look at a unique part of the day in Guatemala. To read the article in its entirety, please click here. There are two ‘official’ snack times in Guatemala known as refacción; one in the morning and [...]

To get a taste of a Guatemalan Christmas celebration, filled with parades, song and dance, you can visit the following website.