Tonight at 7:00 at the Belize-Mexico Institute here in the city, a young Mexican harpist named Ada Tzab will have her first concert in Belize. It's a small setting for the Meridian - and we caught her as she was warming up this afternoon:...
23 year old Ada Tzab from Yucatan Mexico has been playing the harp for four years. She says she chose it because she was curious:
Ada Tzab, Harpist
"It was because of curiosity to explore the instrument because it was unknown for me. So I wanted to meet the instrument,"
More than meet it, she's gotten to know it. She like the reaction it elicits from listeners:
Ada Tzab, Harpist
"I really love when I look at the faces of people even before they listen to the instrument, they just watching the instrument. When they listen, they say its heaven."
Sure does sound like it - but she does try to make it sound not so much like a European heaven:
Ada Tzab, Harpist
"Particular this instrument is an European instrument kind of a Celtic harp, but bigger. It can played American music and there is like some adaptations from that music which is like rhythmic."
This concert is the first of more than 25 cultural and education activities that the Mexican Embassy will present in 2014.
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