ASUNCION, Paraguay — The sounds of heaven, plucked on 36 strings, fill the ramshackle houses and potholed streets of this sleepy capital. Some of that music comes from the basement of harp ...

“The harp is from my country, Paraguay,” said Arami, a sixth-grader at Falcon Cove Middle School. “I asked my grandfather to buy me one when I was 4 years old because I like the music.

As a child growing up in Paraguay, Nicolas Carter learned to play the countrys national folk instrument, the Paraguayan harp. Carter blends traditional Paraguayan influences and his love of ...

On a dusty farm in the southern town of San Pedro del Parana, Paraguay, Cesar Daniel Lopez, then 7, loved playing guitar. Music ran in his family. He took after his older brother, Juan, and began s… ...

Before she could even walk, Nadia Pessoa was captivated by the sight and sound of her father’s harp.Every day, she heard Jesse Pessoa’s renderings of Brazilian and Paraguayan standards. By the ...

And while the harp had originally been introduced to the country by Europeans, by the 1930s, thanks to celebrated arpistas such as Félix Pérez Cardozo, who brought Paraguayan music to a new ...

Garden Spot Village invites the public to a performance of Paraguayan harp music on Saturday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. in the community chapel.“We are blessed to welcome Eduard and Christine Klassen ...

Though Zipoli lived in South America for only the last 10 years of his life, his music quickly took hold in Bolivia, Paraguay and even Peru. After the Spanish expelled the Jesuits in 1767, the ...

On Sunday, Nov. 16 at 2 p.m., harpist Eduard Klassen is coming to Knox Presbyterian Church in Acton to give a concert and speak about his life. Klassen was born and raised in Paraguay, South America.

Roy Rogers assembled Carlos Reyes and Badi Assad — two Latin players with very different backgrounds — into a new band, StringShot.