5th Petronio Alvarez Pacific Music festival in Cali, Colombia- Maky Lopez of Grupo Naidy on the bombo, Hugo Candelario of Bahia on the marimba, and Freddy Colorado on the cununos
Music and Dance show presentation on African Colombian culture at The African American Research Library and Cultural Center in Ft Lauderdale, FL June 20th, 2007
Performances and Workshops on African Colombian music of the Pacific coast at New York University-
Maky Lopez and his artistic-cultural music group Naidy was invited to NYU to teach workshops.Maky Lopez then invited marimba master Gualajo from Colombia, and other Pacific coast musicians to participate in his workshops at NYU's Ethnomusicology department on traditional Black Pacific Colombian music.
Participation in the 2003 meeting of the Middle Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology
March 26 to April 6, 2003
African Colombian music of the Pacific coast workshops and performances at The Caribbean Cultural Center in New York November 2003
Interview and on-air performance of the Afro-Colombian music of the Pacific coast at Columbia University's WKCR 89.9K radio station during the program "Sonidos Colombianos" September 1st, 2003
Performance at Toussaint Louverture "Celebration of Life" event held by the Commemoration Committee of Haiti's Bicentennial
Performance at the Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors festival- 2003
Performance at The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian- 2003
Performance/Workshops The Julia de Burgos Cultural Center in NY- 2003
Performance at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture- 2003
Performance at Brooklyn Public Library's Latino Heritage Festival
Workshops at City College of NY
Participant of the 1st Cultural Colombian Pacific Coast Festival in the United States held in Houston, TX by Cascajal Inc.
Participant of "Colombian Fest International" held in Houston, TX
Maky Lopez- Participant in Tropical Carnival of Paris, France 2009:
http://www.mundimuzik.com/videos/claudiamaki.mov