BANDA BARRIO

On Saturday, March 27th, the students participating in the project made their debut as DJs at the Punto Latino restaurant. To prepare for this session, we had been working on remixing and electronic music based on folklore for the first three months of the year. We also conducted research into musical memories by interviewing women from the Nicaraguan Women's Association.

With the songs that emerged, fragments of their interviews, and new electronic tracks from their countries, the students prepared sets to play at the association itself, located in the Cerezo neighborhood, just before Easter. We remember with great joy this day, a celebration filled with music and food, which ended with an excellent Nicaraguan meal prepared by the association themselves.

The project has been developed once a week on Thursdays from 16:30 to 18:00h. Initially the development was going to be 20 sessions, but as the workshop progressed and we saw the needs and lack of computers at home by the students, we considered it appropriate to make 5 extra sessions of reinforcement, especially in the final phase of development of musical projects. These sessions were intended for students who did not have a computer at home, but the attendance has been general.

In total, 28 sessions were held (23 per calendar + 5 reinforcement sessions) plus the final presentation day of the musical projects, held in the school playground on Saturday, June 26th. The sessions have been organized in two phases, you can see the complete development here: