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Show Rama Nueve A mix of Pre-Columbian and contemporary South America sounds forms the unique style of Rama Nueve ("Ninth Branch"), a band of folk musicians from the Bolivian high plains of the Andes Mountains. Founder Raul Ayllon makes many of the group's instruments like the charango, a ukelele-like stringed instrument made from the skin of an armadillo, and samponas, hollow reeds strapped together to resemble a pan's pipe. The band has toured the western United States, Latin American, Taiwan, Eastern Europe and the People's Republic of China. The Bolivian government, at the request of former Salt Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson, named Rama Nueve goodwill ambassadors as they left home for a tour of Utah, - |