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Grupo Condor performing at CenterStage season finale

The Spokesman-Review

Grupo Condor returns to CenterStage to close out the second season of World Music Concerts on Sunday.

The trio of musicians from Mexico and Chile, who play music from throughout Latin America, was a highlight of the series’ first season in February 2004. Their concerts focus on the blend of European, African and Native American influences on the region.

They perform on instruments including the zamponas, also known as pan pipes; the quena, a single bamboo reed flute; and such African-derived percussion instruments as goat hooves and horse’s jawbones.

A food service featuring a sampling of South American dishes begins at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at CenterStage, 1017 W. First Ave., with the concert at 7.

Tickets are $43 for food and show, $22 for show only, including dessert and beverage ($15 for students with ID). They’re available through the CenterStage box office (747-8243) or with fees through TicketsWest outlets (325-SEAT, 800-325-SEAT, www.ticketswest.com).

Wilderness benefit at Panida

Native American singer/songwriter/storyteller Jack Gladstone will perform Friday at Sandpoint’s Panida Theater in a benefit for the newly launched Friends of Scotchman Peak Wilderness.

Gladstone, son of a Montana Blackfeet father and a German-American mother – and a descendant of the legendary Chief Red Crow – relates stories told to him by his Blackfeet grandmother. His musical tribute to her, “Speak to Me Grandma,” has become one of his signature songs.

His latest album, last year’s “Blackfeet Storysmith,” is a two-CD set about his father’s life. Gladstone also narrated “Lewis and Clark: Confluence of Time and Courage,” the official Lewis and Clark bicentennial film by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Friends of Scotchman Peak Wilderness is an effort to bring wilderness protection to 88,000 acres of roadless lands surrounding Bonner County’s tallest peaks.

The concert begins Friday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10, at the door.