Mazatl Galindo, a native Aztec of Mexico City, is an internationally recognized cultural ambassador of Mexico. He is a highly proficient musician, dancer and painter. He studied muralism at the Fine Art Institute of Mexico. Mazatl’s diverse artistic creations are inspired in whole, or in part, by the traditions of his ancestors.

His knowledge of the art, architecture, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, cosmology and ceremony of ancient Americans provides the cultural and spiritual contexts of his paintings, music and dance, so that his audiences directly perceive the interconnectedness between all aspects of life and their foundations in the natural world. He has been an invited guest lecturer at the University of Calgary, Harvard University, Cambraine College in Ontario, the UCLA Departments of Ethnomusicology and Dance, as well as for several syndicated radio programs in the U.S.

Mazatl’s artwork has been exhibited through the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes de Mexico, the William Siegal Contemporary Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Kumho Cultural Center in South Korea, the Centro Cultural Kosqo in Cuzco, Peru, and the Milagro Gallery in Taos, New Mexico. He performed in conjunction with the exhibition of his artwork at the University of Puebla, Mexico. Mazatl’s paintings and music have served as vehicles for sharing and expressing his deep-founded roots.

Mazatl has devoted his life to the preservation of pre-Columbian music. He has composed original scores for documentaries, films and commercial recordings with his collection of more than 200 original instruments. Mazatl has appeared at the Museum of the American Indian in New York City, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Young Museum in San Francisco, at Stonehenge in England, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and Machu Picchu in Peru.

Mazatl’s recordings with pre-Columbian instruments include: “Xochimoki: New Music Ancient Sources” and “Quetzal: Music from the Heart of Maya.” His work with vocalist and harpist Ani Williams led to the original recordings of “Song of the Jaguar,” “Children of the Sun,” and “Luna Trece.” He has created soundtracks for “Popol Vuh” and “Five Suns,” animated films by Patricia Amlin based upon the myths and stories of the Mayan and Aztec peoples, as well as several scores for short films and documentaries produced by NBC, CBS, and PBS, about ancient archeological sites.

Mazatl performed for several years with the Aveda-sponsored Native American rock band, Red Thunder. Red Thunder aired on VH-1 and MTV, and participated in the HORDE Festival tours, performing with artists such as Blues Traveler, Natalie Merchant, Taj Majal, Dave Matthews Band, and Rickie Lee Jones. Mazatl also participated in a

 

number of recording sessions with the renowned Robbie Robertson (of “The Band”), including on his release of “Music for the Native Americans” and “Contact from the Underworld of Redboy.” He has also performed with Latin sensation Santana and World- renowned Taiko drum ensemble Kodo of Japan

Mazatl has been a voting member of the Recording Academy since 2001 and is an active member of ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. He has performed on and co-composed music for several Grammy Award winning albums. In recent years he collaborated and co-produced several albums with Grammy Award winning producer Jim Wilson (Little Wolf Band and Tulku). Mazatl was also a Co- Producer of the Santa Fe, New Mexico-based Native Roots & Rhythms Performing Arts Festival, an annual showcase of traditional and contemporary Native American and Indigenous performers.

For more than 10 years Mazatl worked with the Music Center of Los Angeles and the Orange County Performing Arts Center in presenting meaningful, educational performances for elementary, junior and senior high school students about Native America, the environment, and the protection of the rainforests of the world.

Mazatl has shared with both young and old our common roots, goals, hopes and dreams. He has led a rediscovery of the universal understanding of life that the ancient ones left for us encoded in their magnificent sites, which can be a key to a better future for the generations to come.

Mazatl Galindo’s Concert Performances and Workshops

The United Nations, New York City

La MAMA Experimental Theatre Club, NYC The Living Theatre, NYC

New York Open Center, NYC

American Museum of Natural History, NYC Rincon Taino, NYC

Taller Latino Americano, NYC

Amherst College, Massachusetts

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada Cleveland Art Museum, Ohio

University of Illinois, Chicago

Ruiz Belvez Cultural Center, Chicago

Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Denver Museum of Natural History, Colorado Armory for the Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe Fine Arts Museum, Santa Fe

Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe

 

Santa Fe School for the Deaf, New Mexico Institute for American Indian Arts, Santa Fe Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico

Kimo Theater, Albuquerque

Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, New Mexico Taos Community Auditorium, New Mexico Las Palomas, Taos, New Mexico

Lama Foundation, New Mexico

The Great Kiva, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico Navajo Academy, Farmington, New Mexico Navajo Public Schools, Window Rock, Arizona Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona Prescott College, Arizona

Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona

Cross Cultural Studies Center, Tucson, Arizona

Orange County Performing Arts Center, Santa Ana, California

University of California (San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz) Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, California

Walt Disney Concert Hall at the Los Angeles Music Center

Yogaworks, Los Angeles, California

Thousand Oaks Performing Arts Center, California

Lowden Nelson Cultural Center, Santa Cruz, California

Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz, California

Whole Life Expo, San Francisco, California

The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California

Oakland Museum, California

La Pena, Berkeley, California

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, California

Kalani Honua Cultural Center, Hawaii

Kamehaneha Schools, Honolulu, Hawaii

Maui, Molokai and Kauai Community Centers, Hawaii

Conscious Investors Symposium, Molokai

Museum of Anthropology, University of British Colombia, Vancouver

The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada

Provincial Museum, Victoria, Canada

Kwagiuti Reserve, Port Hardy, Vancouver Island, Canada

Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Tiajuana, Mexico

Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico

Na Bolom, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chipas, Mexico

The Mayan Temples of Palenque and Chitzen Itza, Mexico

University of Peace, Costa Rica

Machu Picchu, Peru

Findhorn Foundation, Scotland

Edinburgh Theosophical Society, Scotland

Standing Stones of Callandish, Isle of Lewis, Scotland

 

Stonehenge, England

The Assembly Rooms, Glastonbury, England

The October Gallery, London, England

The Temples of Abu Simbel, Philae, and Luxor, Egypt The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt.