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Mafer Bandola

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Musician, Educator & Community Organizer 

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Mafer Bandola

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Musician, Educator & Community Organizer 

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Upcoming Events 2022

March 27th

Pipirs Nights | New York

6PM

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7:30PM

Barbès, 376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215

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March 27th

Pipirs Nights | New York

Once a month - the 4th Sunday at 6pm - I will gather with friends for a Joropo session. Joropos are the main rhythm in Venezuelan Llanera fo...

Detalles del evento

6PM

-

7:30PM

Barbès, 376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215

FEB 03

Mafer Bandola (Trío)|New York

10PM

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11:30PM

Barbès, 376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215

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FEB 03

Mafer Bandola (Trío)|New York

This time it's happening, so come over to listen to what a power trío with the bandola llanera sounds like I may sing as well. 

I'll be playi...

Detalles del evento

10PM

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11:30PM

Barbès, 376 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215

JAN 15 2022

Mafer Bandola (Trío) | SECRET PLANET Showcase.

7PM

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8PM

DROM,

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JAN 15 2022

Mafer Bandola (Trío) | SECRET PLANET Showcase.


Each year on a Saturday in January, insiders and the audience gather at Drom are ready for a local to global, traditional to an experimental...

Detalles del evento

7PM

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8PM

DROM,

DEC 17 2021

Mafer Bandola (Ensamble Criollo) | AREPA HOUSE

4PM

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6PM

St, Harrisburg, PA

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DEC 17 2021

Mafer Bandola (Ensamble Criollo) | AREPA HOUSE

To give you context: 


"The arepa symbolizes Venezuelan gastronomy and one of the most common pre-Hispanic foods still popular in Venezuela." ...

Detalles del evento

4PM

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6PM

St, Harrisburg, PA

SEP 04

Billy Wylder wsg Mafer Bandola at Zenbarn

7PM

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10PM

Waterbury Center, VT

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SEP 04

Billy Wylder wsg Mafer Bandola at Zenbarn

 Billy Wylder's music weaves together American folk and rock with sensibilities from the Sahara Desert, exploring grooves informed by ancien...

Detalles del evento

7PM

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10PM

Waterbury Center, VT

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What I DO

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MUSICIAN

Performing with LADAMA since 2016

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COMMUNITY ORGANIZER

Co-Founder of LADAMAproject

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JOURNALIST

some of my jobs as a freelancer writer.

Biography

María Fernanda González (Mafer Bandola) is a bandola llanera player, educator, self-taught composer, and journalist from Barquisimeto, Venezuela. She is one of the few women in the world performing the bandola professionally as a solo artist and has competed in and won renown music festivals of Joropo in Venezuela and Colombia. She is also a pioneer, experimenting with genres, sounds, and cross-cultural collaboration in her compositions, becoming the first woman to play the electric version of this instrument in 2016. She is both known as an innovator for her solo work and for her performances with LADAMA, a multinational band of four women from four countries, of which she is a co-founder and current member.

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.




CONFERENCIA ONLINE PARA LATINAS EN LA INDUSTRIA DE LA MÚSICA

Latínica

Music performance, composition & education

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

Journalism & Freelance Writing

https://aldianews.com/es/authors/mafer-bandola/18698

Community Organizer

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

LADAMA project

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