Pasatono Orquesta (2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival)

Pasatono Orquesta has focused its interest and dedication to research, perform, compose, and promote the musical Mixtec culture. After a long journey of many years of exploration throughout the states of Guerrero, Puebla, and Oaxaca, plus the transnational community, Pasatono has been nourished by the guardians of the cloud people’s music “living treasures”: luthiers, bass players, banjo players, violinists, composers, among others who possess a great knowledge of their musical culture.
Rubén Luengas Pérez (Mixteco), artistic director and conductor, bajoquinto
Verónica Acevedo Escamilla (Oaxaqueña), violin
Froylan Bautista Gabriel (Zapoteco), baritone and trombone
Emmanuel Bautista Gonzalez (Oaxaqueño), trumpet
Patricia García López (Oaxaqueña), violin
Pablo Márquez (Oaxaqueño), percussion
Edgar Serralde Mayer (Oaxaqueño), jarana and vocals
Rodrigo Pereyra Cruz (Oaxaqueño), violin and vocals
René González Santillán (Triqui), clarinet and saxophone
PabloMaya Ortega (Mexicano), manager
This video features highlights from a performance recorded live in the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC during the 2024 Folklife Festival held June 26-July 1, 2024.
The 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival program "Indigenous Voices of the Americas" honors the twentieth anniversary of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, and celebrates Indigenous creative expression across the Western Hemisphere. It featured more than 250 participants representing 60 Indigenous nations in ten countries. The Festival was co-presented by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Park Service.
For more information on the Festival, visit festival.si.edu.
For more information on the museum, visit AmericanIndian.si.edu.