Inti-Illimani

7:15 p.m. - Pre-performance discussion with Dr. Michelle Farrell, Fairfield University associate professor of modern languages and literature

Inti-Illimani is celebrating its 45th anniversary of intoxicating audiences around the world. In their homeland of Chile and greater Latin America, they are a veritable institution, a cultural icon famous as much for their unique poetic and socio-political history as their music, a mellifluous synthesis of instruments and vocals. Blending more than 30 wind, string, and percussion instruments, Inti-Illimani's music quickly became Latin America's visceral link between pueblo and people, vivified in Nueva Canción, a socio-political artistic movement of the 1970s, seeking to resurrect and celebrate the traditional folk sounds of Latin culture while delivering messages of social change and revolution.