This video shows a sampler of the concert "Cowboys of the Americas," as created and performed by Calle Sur together with the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra and world-renowned harpist Alfredo Rolando Ortiz. U.S. cowboys have captured the imagination of people worldwide for well over 100 years, yet the cowboy tradition started in Latin America and was well developed in grassland areas there long before cowboys and open-range cattle herds came to the U.S. via Mexico and Texas starting in the 1850's. "Cowboys of the Americas" is a wonderful family concert program that features the diverse cowboy traditions from all of the Americas, both through classical music and through folk music.

Trío de Colores plays a variety of Mexican folk music styles, such as "son jarocho" and "rancheras." The ensemble is unique because of its inclusion of a harp, and it can be expanded to a full mariachi quintet with trumpet and violin. www.artes-latinas.com music@artes-latinas.com

This video shows scenes of Calle Sur's work with students, ages Kindergarten through college/university level. www.callesur.com

Latin duo Calle Sur (Karin Stein from Colombia and Edgar East from Panama, http://www.callesur.com) accompany Ariel Ramirez' "Misa Criolla," considered a groundbreaking work when it was first published in the early 1960's. Here it is performed by the Grinnell Oratorio Society together with the Grinnell Singers (Grinnell College, Iowa), under the direction of Dr. John Rommereim. Recorded and produced by Bus Stop Productions (https://www.facebook.com/BusStopProductions)