Macarena Carreño Bustos

🇨🇱 We are Chile Ideas ✨ A group of friends passionate about art, music, and building community 🎶❤️ We were born from the desire to share our roots, our stories, and the joy of staying connected to Chilean culture while living far from home 🌎 We believe music is a bridge — a space where different generations, experiences, and paths can come together to sing, dance, learn, and feel part of something 🕊️🎸💃 From Halifax, we want to create warm and vibrant spaces where Chilean culture can continue to grow, transform, and find new homes 🍷🌊🏔️ Thank you for being here from the very beginning ✨ - 🇨🇱 Somos Chile Ideas ✨ Un grupo de amigos apasionados por el arte, la música y la creación de comunidad 🎶❤️ Nacimos desde la necesidad de compartir nuestras raíces, nuestras historias y la alegría de encontrarnos lejos de casa a través de la cultura chilena 🌎 Creemos en la música como un puente: un espacio donde distintas generaciones, experiencias y caminos pueden reunirse para cantar, bailar, aprender y sentirse parte de algo 🕊️🎸💃 Desde Halifax, queremos crear instancias vivas y cercanas donde la cultura chilena pueda seguir creciendo, transformándose y encontrando nuevos hogares 🍷🌊🏔️ Gracias por acompañarnos desde el comienzo ✨ Chile Ideas 🇨🇱 Creatividad, memoria y comunidad ❤️

Random photos - acoustic shows - Abbey the kitty - three amigos Felicidades à la @amparocarrenob amparito pito que comienza un nuevo capítulo en la vida 😍😍😍 Gracias a la vida 🌊🌊🌊

So grateful for this opportunity at the main stage where all kind of performers will show their work 😍 thank you @hfxjazzfest for considering us to be part, we are going to make the best of it 🩷🔥 Shoutout to the team @donbluesman @elsaaajayne Mati @mattyojosey @dom.craw @juan_c_rivas 🙏🏼🩷✨💃🏻🥳🥳🥳🥳 Thank you for all the support of our friends and followers 💙🌊 Agradecida de esta oportunidad y mil gracias a todos los que nos han apoyado estos años!! Nos vemos see you at the main stage Friday 10th 11:30am 😘😘😘🐒🥹

Last Monday concert @guspubandgrill Gig Night 🔥 Thanks @justceejthings for putting all that together 🙏🏼

We were at @friendsofckdu for their sustainer drive last week and we are happy to say: they got to their goal! Go community radio ! Thank you to @k_braze and Fabulous Phee for all their work and having us 🩷 you can listen to the full episode going to Ckdu.ca ➡️ listen ➡️archive ➡️Weds March 18th ➡️ 1PM Something really magical happened at the radio that day 🩷

Photos by @k_braze Thank you for so much @friendsofckdu for having us in the Sustainer Drive programming on Weds ! It was a great experience to know you and performing acoustic! We are so grateful for all the people who donated to Ckdu listening to our session 💙 Next up - March 21st - 7pm at @trident_cafe_halifax - March 30th - 7pm at @guspubandgrill We heard someone asked about the brand of our guitars Rodrigo’s guitar is Godin Metropolis and mine was Martin 000 15 🍂

Art as a safe space 💙 I have loved to contribute to life like this! 🙏🏼🩷 @mabellearts @halifaxiseveryone @culturedstudio_ca now with my friend @nory_amiri for the circle of sisterhood and the songwriting gathering (that I will keep doing soon 🫰🏻) Art is something we build together✨ Photo by @arefe_gholipour #CommunityEngagedArt #CommunityArts #ArtForEveryone #SongwritingCommunity #CreativeFacilitation ParticipatoryArt

Red Exodia 10 Años x Maca Carreño x @wearemueres ✍️ ¡Se viene la primera década de nuestra asesoría 🎊! Este verano nuestro servicio de agencia global incluye: - Consultoría y desarrollo de proyectos musicales y culturales (festivales, single promocional, estrenos de videoclip, álbum, shows de lanzamiento, eventos, etc.). - Campaña de Prensa vía plataforma de EMail Marketing (métricas, taza de apertura, países, etc) - BBDD: Base de Datos especializada. +2000 - Gestión de prensa nacional/internacional 360 (muchísimas publicaciones en Iberoamérica, entrevistas y track promocional a radios). - EPK Roll Out Pro + Dossier de Prensa. Tu mejor aliado ante solicitudes y financiación. 3 CUPOS EXTRAS SOLO POR FEBRERO. Seguimos escuchando tus canciones este verano. Lanza tu música como corresponde con Red Exodia. Te leemos 📬

Está canción es “Salió el Sol” - Treile y la escribí con un poema de @neve_miradastv Agradecida de @lavitrolacl que sigue mostrando música chilena y @ojoentinta 💙 Aguante el equipo musical de ese tiempo @tomtomcortez_ Ahora sigo componiendo en @wearemueres por si quieren enterarse de la nueva música que estoy trabajando. gracias @harleybigote por el video 💙

Blackout Podcast Episode 356: Macarena Carreño - Musician / Artist / Art Administrator At fifteen, her first song emerged from an English class assignment, built on three chords and sung with friends. That simple moment with a guitar quietly began a path she could never leave. Born in Santiago, Chile, she was raised among films, music, and poetry, where art persistently called to her. Through mentors and fellow artists, she found stages, collaborators, and the understanding that art was a way to inhabit the world. By nineteen, she began recording and performing with bands. She rebuilt her project, co-founded the independent label Caída Libre, and adopted the name Mueres en el Mar, embracing a sound that merges technology and nature, emotion and instinct. Inspired by artists like Björk and Aurora, she chose to create freely, allowing contradiction, tenderness, rage, and silence to coexist. Under that name, she released the EP La timidez de los eucaliptus and the album Ikigai (2023), supported by Chile’s Ministry of Culture. She performed at major festivals and earned national recognition. After a period in Toronto, she is now based in Nova Scotia, rebuilding her project, writing in English, and performing with renewed clarity. Alongside her own work, she studies and supports other artists through creative management. Her story continues to unfold. More @maca.mnm @wearemueres @sellocaidalibre @israeliekanem

📣 CBA MEMBER SPOTLIGHT 📣 ✨Macarena Carreno✨ @maca.mnm - Music, Art, Administration Macarena Carreño is a Chilean-Canadian songwriter, artist, and cultural worker based in Nova Scotia. Under the project Mueres en el Mar, she creates art-pop music rooted in experimentation, emotional honesty, and cross-cultural experience. She began writing songs in her teens and has performed extensively in Chile and Canada, releasing the EP La Timidez de los Eucaliptus and the album IKIGAI, supported by Chile’s Ministry of Culture. Her work has been presented at major festivals and recognized with national awards. Alongside her music practice, she works in creative management and continues expanding her artistic language through visual art. UPCOMING PROJECTS: Macarena is developing her next album with producers from Halifax and Chile, exploring themes of human will and volition, alongside visual works in acrylic and watercolor. She is collaborating across disciplines, co-running Sound Support Collective, performing at Gus’ Pub on February 26, and contributing music to a community choir and interdisciplinary projects.

Nos ganamos el fondo de la música 🩷 vamos a trabajar en nuestro segundo disco de larga duración🙏🏼 Yo he sido evaluadora del fondo pero de otra categoría (y últimamente evalué proyectos acá en Canadá) y es harta pega y responsabilidad. Agradecida de la gente que trata de hacer estos sistemas más accesibles diversos equitativos e inclusivos 🩷 Si ud quiere fondos de cultura siga intentándolo. Este es mi segundo intento, año pasado lo postulamos y no ganamos. Aguante @perrode.caza quién fue realmente quien me dio la noticia porque es mi productor, además de músico genial y gran ser humano 🔥 se viene disquitoooo