Edmar Castaneda is a New York Colombian harpist who makes heavenly jazz inspired by the folk music of Colombia and Venezuela.
Castaneda makes music of the angels. His emotional range would be exhausting if it wasn’t so sweet. Castaneda switches gears naturally like he is driving through the mountain neighborhoods of his native Bogotá.
Edmar Castaneda in New York City
He is based in New York, so plays here regularly.
Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Béla Fleck (American banjo player), Edmar Castañeda (Colombian harpist), and the Antonio Sanchez Trio (Mexican drummer); play jazz at the Blue Note jazz club in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; from Tuesday-Sunday, September 10-15, 2024, at 8pm and 10:30pm (6pm & 10pm doors). From $58. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽
New York City Venues
- Blue Note New York jazz club
- Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center
- Drom world music club
- LeFrak Concert Hall at Kupferberg Center at Queens College
- Lincoln Center
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
- Winter JazzFest
- World Music Institute
Edmar Castaneda is a Heavenly Jazz Harpist
Edmar Castaneda was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1978. His father, Pavelid Castaneda is a also a harp player, composer, and music teacher.
We get our share of Andean folk music on the streets and subways of New York City, but Castaneda takes this music to another level. In the same way that a Latin percussionist can make a full drum kit out of a tin can, Castañeda finds many different voices in his harp. The effect is something like listening to a chorus of angels. This is what happens when genius meets love.
One of the reasons Edmar Castaneda is special is because he makes Indigenous music world-class. We almost destroyed our Native American communities in what is now the United States, but the Indigenous spirit remains strong in the music of Colombia and the Andes.
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