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Shows

01/15

Mafer Bandola & The Pipiris Band | SECRET PLANET Showcase

7:00pm

DROM | Manhattan, NY, United States

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01/15

Mafer Bandola & The Pipiris Band | SECRET PLANET Showcase

For the 2023 edition, Mafer is playing this Showcases Series with The Pipiris Band. She brings the technics and sounds from the hight plains...

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7:00pm

DROM | Manhattan, NY, United States

01/19

MAFER BANDOLA Cocktails & Culture Fresh Latinx Flavors

6pm

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9pm

Museum Of the City of New York | 1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St.

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01/19

MAFER BANDOLA Cocktails & Culture Fresh Latinx Flavors

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6pm

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9pm

Museum Of the City of New York | 1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St.

01/22

Pipiris Nights | Joropo in New York

6PM

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7:30PM

Barbès, 376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215

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01/22

Pipiris Nights | Joropo in New York

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6PM

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7:30PM

Barbès, 376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215

01/28

LADAMA | Dominican University

7:30pm

River Forest, IL, United States

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01/28

LADAMA | Dominican University

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7:30pm

River Forest, IL, United States

02/03

LADAMA | John Michael Kohler Arts Center

7:00PM

Sheboygan, WI, United States

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02/03

LADAMA | John Michael Kohler Arts Center

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7:00PM

Sheboygan, WI, United States

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What I DO

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MUSICIAN

Performing with LADAMA since 2016

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Performer

"Papá Cuatro" The Musical

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZER

Joropo Nights in New York

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Mafer Bandola of Ladama

Mafer Bandola, Venezuelan Bandola Innovator

Mafer Bandola, Venezuelan Bandola Innovator

By Cultural Manifesto

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Mafer Bandola, Venezuelan Bandola Innovator

Mafer Bandola, Venezuelan Bandola Innovator

Mafer Bandola, Venezuelan Bandola Innovator

by New Sounds and Soundcheck

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Mafer Bandola Paves the Way to the Party for “La Venezolanidad Immigrante”

Mafer Bandola Paves the Way to the Party for “La Venezolanidad Immigrante”

Mafer Bandola Paves the Way to the Party for “La Venezolanidad Immigrante”

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CUNY TV | New York

Mafer Bandola Paves the Way to the Party for “La Venezolanidad Immigrante”

Mafer Bandola Paves the Way to the Party for “La Venezolanidad Immigrante”


By The City University of New York’s television station, CUNY TV

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Mafer Bandola  

(Maria Fernanda Gonzalez) Is a Venezuelan bandola llanera player, community organizer, self-thought composer, and educator. With a grounded understanding of the bandola llanera (male-dominated) traditions,  she focuses on bringing the instrument to a new artistic path through composition, performance, and improvisation.


As co-founder and current member of Ladama, a collective of four female musicians from four different countries, mafer combines her oral traditions and musical approaches to create collectively original music in Spanish, English, and Portugues. . Currently, is the creator and hoster of Pipiris Nights, the first and only gathering event with a community focus where to play and dance Venezuelan Joropos in New York.


Mafer occupies a unique place as a composer, educator, and artist and has won multiple residencies and been the recipient of many grants for her work.  She has performed at institutions such as MassMoca, WOMAD, Womex, TED, TEDx, National Sawdust, NPR TinyDesk, among others, as well as presenting in spaces in Latin America as varied as Teatro Juares, Teatro Teresa Carreño both in Venezuela, Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia and Paco do Frevo in Recife, Brazil. As an educator, she has worked with El Sistema in Venezuela, has developed open sourced, culturally-responsive curriculum in partnership with TeachRock for American students, and has taught at multiple universities as an artist in residence such as Dartmouth College, George Mason University and Butler University among others. From July 2020 - March 2021, she  produced the international online conference Latínica where more than 200 Latinas from around the world gathered together to discuss in Spanish the different issues affecting them in the music industry..

LADAMA project

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Music performance, composition & education

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ez2A7tle8w&t=9s

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Community Organizer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeC3TuBY1Tk

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