About the Show

Pulso de Barro is a show that gravitates around the folklore music of different Latin American cultures. The importance of drawing connections between cultures through their music – origins, sounds, and stories – is to perceive how we all form a part of the same weaving. The hosts and guests are people in the Kingston community who have had a relationship with folkloric music in any way, shape, or form. Personal stories are important because they convey the way in which folk music has a deep impact on the spirit and the collective. The songs played during the musical breaks embody the topics and elements that are explored during the programming. Additionally, there is a space to play live music. Art has transformative power in the never-ending shaping of culture. Thus, the program is a platform in which the community expresses itself and reimagines the future.

 

The show is called Pulso de Barro which means Pulse of Clay. Pulse is life, and clay is where it begins and where it ends. Pulse is the heart beating – expanding and letting blood flow in to renew it, and contracting to circulate it through the body. These movements of the heart are similar to those of breathing: inhalation and exhalation. To live on earth is to participate in a dynamic similar to that of the heartbeat and breathing. We absorb the world around us and suddenly the sensations overflow and become art, and then, the world absorbs us. Clay is the black and brown earth, like our African ancestors. When clay is molded it can become a home, in plates for food, or as a base to write the words that make up our stories. Pulso de Barro is the root and the tree, life, and death, the tireless cyclical song of existence.

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