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HOT TICKETS Top ticket retailers Jessica Hernandez draws on Compiled by Ana Daraban in Salt Lake City MUSIC Here’s a rundown O of the most com- her heritage to spark creativity ‘Don Giovanni’ • Utah Op- mon ticket services: era; tonight, 7:30; Sunday, 2 ArtTix • 801-355-ARTS p.m.; Capitol Theatre, 50 W. or arttix.org; kingsbury- Concert preview • 200 South, Salt Lake City; hall.org She and her band, The $21-$92; utahopera.org SmithsTix • 801-467- Sally Bytheway Chorale • To- TIXX, 800-888-TIXX or Deltas, are back with night, 7:30; LDS Assembly www.smithstix.com new music recorded in Hall, 50 W. North Temple, Ticketmaster • 800- Salt Lake City; free 745-3000 or ticketmas- English and Spanish. ter.com DANCE Two Four Tix • 24tix. By AUTUMN THATCHER com Special to The Tribune National Choreographic Fes- KingTix • www.kings- tival • Tonight and Saturday, buryhall.utah.edu. In 2015, singer-songwrit- 7:30; Saturday, 2 p.m.; con- er Jessica Hernandez traveled tinues May 26-27; George S. through Salt Lake on a small, and Dolores Doré Eccles The- vance, $5 more at the door; self-funded tour that saw her ater, 131 Main, Salt Lake City; pioneertheatre.org and her band of Deltas per- $49.50; artsaltlake.org ‘Betty Blue Eyes’ • Tonight forming at the Urban Lounge. and Saturday, 7:30; Satur- Before that show, Hernandez STAGE day, 3 p.m.; plays through talked to The Tribune about Courtesy photo May 27; Hale Center Theater, dropping out of college to chase Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas will perform Wednesday at The State Room. ‘Hairspray’ • Tonight and 25 W. 400 North, Orem; $22- a musical dream and overcom- Saturday, 7:30; Saturday, 2 $24 ($6 less for children); ha- ing her shyness to perform on- p.m.; plays through June 3; letheater.org stage. album] was written right be- she took her music to the studio. Salt Lake Community Col- ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ • She was promoting her de- fore I got married, so a lot of it Jessica Hernandez “Somewhere along the way lege Grand Theatre, 1575 Hale Centre Theatre; tonight but album and mentioned her was a transitional period for me & The Deltas of being in the studio, it just S. State, Salt Lake City; $22; and Saturday, 7:30; Saturday, goal of making a splash in the of going through being a young clicked,” she said. “I ended up grandtheatrecompany.com 12:30 and 4 p.m.; Hale Cen- Latin music scene. A punk-in- 20-something-year-old to get- When • Wednesday; recutting all the vocals at the ‘The Mountaintop’ • To- tre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker fused Mexican-American sing- ting married.” doors at 7 p.m., show at end. We redid all of them in night, 8; Saturday and Sun- Lake Drive, West Valley City; er from Michigan, Hernandez The album was completed 8 p.m. one day after I had already been day, 4 p.m.; Good Compa- $18-$24; hct.org said that in America, a Latin one week before her wedding. Where • The State Room, trying to sing them for weeks.” ny Theatre, 260 Historic 25th presence was lacking across dif- Post-wedding, she and her hus- 638 S State St., Salt Lake “Telephone/Teléfono” is slat- St., Ogden; $17; goodcothe- ETC. ferent genres, and she hoped to band — Kyle Straka of the Cal- City ed for release June 23. Hernan- atre.com change that. ifornia-based psychedelic rock Tickets • $15; Ticketfly dez hopes the album will not ‘The Will Rogers Follies: A Living Traditions • Today, 5-9 Two years later, Jessica Her- band The Growlers — spent a only lead to an internation- Life in Revue’ • Tonight and p.m.; Saturday, noon-10 p.m.; nandez &The Deltas are again little time together before get- as trying to sing these soulful al tour in Mexico and South Saturday, 7:30; Saturday, 2 Sunday, noon-7 p.m.; Salt preparing to perform in Salt ting back to work. rock songs in Spanish, it was America, but also provide a p.m.; Pioneer Theatre Com- Lake City and County Build- Lake. The soulful punk rock- “We didn’t really get a break pretty hard.” place where others within the pany, 300 S. 1400 East, Salt ing, 451 S. State St.; free; liv- ers play The State Room this from work, but we did get a To create an authentic lis- Latin community can find fa- Lake City; $40-$62 in ad- ingtraditionsfestival.com coming Wednesday. This time honeymoon,” Hernandez said. tening experience, Hernandez miliarity. around, Hernandez sports “After the wedding, we had a spent a month in Mexico City “In the spaces we play, a lot of blond locks, a wedding ring and week together and then we both practicing her Spanish. She our fans are Mexican-Ameri- a new album — recorded in En- went back on tour.” spoke the language every day, can. That is another reason I glish and Spanish. Hernandez is no stranger to and when she sang, she would wanted to record something in Today’s Crossword Today’s Sudoku “Ever since I started playing long hours. She and her band record her vocals and play Spanish,” Hernandez said. “I re- music, it’s something that I re- have spent years on the road, them back to herself and some member being younger and not ally wanted to do,” Hernandez relentlessly touring in an ef- friends she was staying with. really having an appreciation said in a phone interview with fort to get her music out to the “We were just sitting there for the Spanish language and The Tribune. “I wanted to tap masses. Somewhere in between, reading over lyrics from a sheet teetering on the edge of, ‘Am into this other side of who I she found the time to write of paper. I would record myself I Mexican? Am I American?’ am and bring that out through “Telephone” and then translate after I would sing it,” she said. “I and figuring out where do I fit something creatively.” every song into Spanish. The would listen back and try and in. I thought it was a cool thing Her sophomore album, process was a grueling one that figure out what word sound- to do this rock-inspired album “Telephone/Teléfono,” rep- Hernandez said, in some ways, ed incorrect to me, what word that is in Spanish. It’s making resents not only her Mexi- felt like starting from the be- I was giving an improper accent a statement that you can be all can-American heritage, but also ginning. to or the timing was off. I spent of these things and be proud of LOOKING FOR THE PUZZLES? • D11 alludes to her personal life in “It was super-challenging be- two weeks doing that and that all of it.” songs like the title track, which cause I had never sung in Span- was the most frustrating part. It examines the tolls of keeping a ish before,” she said. “It was al- felt like, ‘S---, am I going to get relationship alive from the road. most learning how to sing this?’ I didn’t want to do it and “I always write from a real- again from scratch, because have it not sound legit.” ly personal point of view and the Spanish language is a to- Hernandez said the hard try to add in bits and pieces of tally different beast. My Span- work paid off. After two weeks what’s going on in the world,” ish is good when I am speaking of obsessively practicing on her Hernandez said. “A lot of [the to my grandmother, but as far friend’s couch in Mexico City,

Reading to launch ‘Red Rock Stories’ Books • Utah publisher launches ‘Red Rock Stories’ “art-as-advocacy” Torrey House Press book with Salt Lake P is launching its art-as-advocacy collection, City, Moab readings. edited by Stephen Trim- ble, with readings in Salt The SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Lake City and Moab. When • Tonight at 7 Torrey House Press is Where • Weller Book launching “Red Rock Stories: Works, 607 Trolley Square, Three Generations of Writ- Salt Lake City ers Speak on Behalf of Utah’s Courtesy photo Where • Back of Beyond, Public Lands” at readings to- Stephen Trimble lives in Torrey. 83 N. Main St., Moab night in Salt Lake City and Moab. of President Donald Trump, The nonfiction collec- is reconsidering the size and include Trimble, David Lee, tion, edited by Stephen Trim- scale of national monuments, a former state poet laureate, ble, is an “art-as-advocacy” including Utah’s Grand Stair- novelist Jana Richman and book, collecting stories from case-Escalante National Mon- former Rep. Karen Shepherd. a variety of noted writers at a ument and Bears Ears Na- An earlier edition of the time when Interior Secretary tional Monument. Readers book was delivered to federal Ryan Zinke, at the direction from the Salt Lake City event legislators last year.

Perry bringing ‘Witness’ tour to The Viv

By SEAN P. MEANS in the music and pop-culture The Salt Lake Tribune world. Her string of No. 1 sin- gles includes “I Kissed a Girl,” She is a champion, and “California Gurls,” “Teenage you’re going to hear her roar Dream,” “Firework,” “E.T.,” — because Katy Perry is going “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” on tour, with a stop in Salt “Part of Me,” “Roar” and “Dark Lake City. Horse.” She was the voice of The mega pop star an- Smurfette in two “Smurfs” nounced this week she will movies, performed the half- launch the North American time show at Super Bowl leg of “Witness: The Tour” on XLIX in 2015 and set off the Sept. 7 in Columbus, Ohio. “Left Shark” meme, and cam- The tour will arrive in Salt paigned for LGBT equality Lake City on Friday, Nov. 24, CHRIS PIZZELLO | The Associated Press and for Hillary Clinton’s pres- at Vivint Smart Home Arena. idential campaign. Along with the tour, Per- Tickets for Perry’s show ry announced her new al- just-released “Bon Appétit” at The Viv go on sale Mon- bum, “Witness,” will be re- (whose sexy food-themed vid- day at 10 a.m. at Smith’s Tix. leased June 9. The album eo dropped last week). The presale begins Wednes- includes the singles “Chained Over the past decade, Perry day, and fans can register on to the Rhythm” and the has been a colossal presence Perry’s website.