VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — The government of Peru is donating two Peruvian instruments to the National Music Museum in Vermillion.
Guido F. Loayza, the Consul General of Peru, will present the cajon and a cajita to the museum on Friday at 12:45 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
A Peruvian company, A Tiempo de Percusion Eirl, made the instruments.
The National Music Museum and Peruvian consulate have been discussing the instruments for more than a year.
During the spring of 2010, Ricardo Malca, the deputy consul of Peru from Washington, D.C., visited the National Music Museum and learned that the museum did not have examples of the two instruments, which are prominently featured in Afro-Peruvian jazz.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
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