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Susan Alcorn: Nueva Canción on Pedal Steel

By Lawrence Peryer | Spotlight On
January 27, 2024
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Today, the Spotlight shines On the innovative pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn.

While Susan got her start playing in country & western bands in Texas, she has taken the pedal steel into new and uncharted territories, exploring 20th-century classical music, improvisational jazz, and various world musics.

On her latest project, CANTO (Relative Pitch Records), Susan explored Chilean folk music and nueva canción, which translates as "new song" and refers to an intertwined musical and leftist social movement so important to the pro-Democracy organizations throughout Latin America over the last 50 years or more.

CANTO features Alcorn's Septeto del Sur, a new ensemble featuring a cross-generational group of musicians versed in folk and improvisational traditions.

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About Susan Alcorn

Instrument: Guitar, steel

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