Malu Dacio – Cenarium Magazine
MANAUS (AM) – With the proposal of promoting plurality, the production of the music festival “Kariwa Bacana” was contemplated in the Natura Musical edict. The event will promote a meeting between contemporary indigenous music and the urban Amazonian music scene, and has not yet set a date.
The Music Festival “Kariwa Bacana” is one of the 33 projects selected in the Natura Musical 2021 call, which received 3,720 registrations from all regions of the country.
The festival is produced by journalist Patrícia Borges and musician Agenor Vasconcelos, in partnership with João Paulo Barreto, coordinator of the Bahserikowi Indigenous Medicine Center. The inspiration for the Festival is the Kuximawara music, a symbol of cultural resistance in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira (AM).
With two days of programming, the producers plan to set up a stage in front of Bahserikowi (Bernardo Ramos Street, 97, Downtown). “The idea is to hold a festival to decolonize ears, break sound hegemonies, and share ancestral chords. A festival to exalt the voices and the musical production in the Amazon”, explains producer and journalist Patrícia Borges.
The production intends to count on presentations by musicians from the Upper Rio Negro region and other independent music scenes from the North. The event will be free of charge and will follow all health recommendations in force.
Inspiration
The festival is inspired by a song of the same name by artist Jack da Guitarra, from São Gabriel da Cachoeira, composed in 2016 during fieldwork conducted by researcher Agenor Vasconcelos in his doctorate in Social Anthropology at Ufam.
“Since the first time I heard this song and got to know a little of the kuximawara and the work of Jack, Ary Até Ykuema and Negão dos Teclados I thought of a festival that would honor this very rich cultural manifestation and full of symbology”, said Patrícia.
The journalist also argued that the festival is an opportunity to highlight the contemporary music of indigenous peoples. “Remembering that São Gabriel da Cachoeira is the most indigenous city in the country, with 23 different peoples, with the Nheengatu, the Tukano, and the Baniwa as official languages alongside the Portuguese language”, she said.
Besides “Kariwa Bacana”, Elisa Maia and LabVerde, both from Amazonas, and Marcela Bonfim, from Rondônia, were also contemplated in the Natura Musical 2021 by the North region. The greatest achievement is to realize that the music and culture of our region are receiving national recognition, after all, the propagation and dissemination of the cultural production of Amazonas and the North region is my greatest militancy”, said the producer.
“I hope this is an important step towards transforming the ‘mongrel’ complex still present in Amazonians who deny our culture, value outside artists, and find our own productions inferior”, she concluded.
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