In White Plains: Afro-Peruvian jazz, with a purpose
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- January
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Carmen Guevara, a Peruvian immigrant living in White Plains, tells me that she spends a lot of time trying to 
give people a better sense of modern-day culture in her home country, something beyond Macchu Picchu.
Saturday is her big chance, when she will present a benefit concert of Afro-Peruvian jazz. The Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Jazz Sextet, mixing contemporary jazz with its African roots, plays at 8 p.m. at the Slater Center in White Plains.
The concert is a benefit for a school in the area of Pisco, where an earthquake hit in 2007. An nonprofit called Quipunet built the school, and the local chapter is raising money to paint it.
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