PROGRAM: LA SANTA CECILIA AND LOS CENZONTLES
Sunday, July 20, 2014 / 3:00 pm / Bing Concert Hall
LA SANTA CECILIA AND LOS CENZONTLES
ARTISTS PROGRAM La Santa Cecilia The program will be announced from the stage. Marisoul Hernández, Lead Vocals and Jarana Alex Bendana, Bass and Vocals Pepe Carlos, Accordion, Requinto, and Vocals Miguel Ramirez, Percussion and Vocals Marco Sandoval, Guitar Wally Valdez, Drums
Los Cenzontles Lucina Rodriguez, Voice, Jarana and Percussion Fabiola Trujillo, Voice Eugene Rodriguez, Guitar, Requinto, and Vihuela Emiliano Rodriguez, Bass Carlos Caro, Congas and Cajon Tregar Otton, Violin Juan Carreon, Drums Emely Reachi, Percussion and Dance
PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Please be considerate of others and turn off all phones, pagers, and watch alarms, and unwrap all lozenges prior to the performance. Photography and recording of any kind are not permitted. Thank you.
16 Stanford Live Magazine JULY/August 2014 LA SANTA CECILIA Los Cenzontles was founded in 1989 and production coordinator for the La Santa Cecilia consists of accordionist as a youth music group by Eugene Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy. and requintero Jose “Pepe” Carlos, Rodriguez. He has produced more Fabiola Trujillo joined Los Cenzontles bassist Alex Bendana, percussionist than 20 albums, and in 1994, he was at 15 and manages the Los Cenzontles Miguel Ramirez, and lead vocalist La nominated for a Grammy Award for Cultural Arts Academy. Born in Marisoul, whose captivating voice sings his production of Papa’s Dream with Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, Lucina about love, loss, and heartbreak. Their Los Lobos and Lalo Guerrero. Born Rodriguez also joined Los Cenzontles influences range from Miles Davis to the in San Francisco, Emiliano Rodriguez at 15 and is the external program Beatles, Led Zeppelin to Janis Joplin, has been a student at Los Cenzontles coordinator and the dance instructor and Mercedes Sosa to Ramón Ayala. Mexican Arts Center for more than for the Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Their common love of music and nine years and is also the audiovisual Academy. Los Cenzontles has recorded openness to all genres led them to the 20 CDs of traditional and original concept of La Santa Cecilia in 2007, music with collaborators that include and they named the band after this Los Cenzontles “both honors Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos, Jackson patron saint of musicians. and upends traditional Browne, the Chieftains, Ry Cooder, Mexican music, tapping and Taj Mahal. • In 2013, the band released its major-label deep roots as it flowers into debut, Treinta Dias (Thirty Days), which Stanford Live: Apr/May 2014 Program • Due: 2/21/14 featured a captivating collaboration with something completely new, fan Elvis Costello on “Losing Game.” and distinctly American.” Now, just after its Grammy win for —New York Times Best Latin Rock, Urban, or Alternative Album, the band presents its new album, Someday New. The album features seven new tracks, which include a heartfelt CANTOR ARTS CENTER AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY Spanglish rendition of the Beatles’ iconic “Strawberry Fields Forever”; the Carleton Carleton Fall,Watkins (U.S.A., Lower Yosemite Yosemite, 1829–1916), The unforgettable new Mexican classic “Como Dios manda”; a fresh, new radio edit of their single “Monedita”; CARLETON Albumen of Special Collections, print. Lent byLibraries. Department Stanford University and the full version of their moving and militant “ICE el hielo.” WATKINS The Stanford
LOS CENZONTLES Albums Los Cenzontles (Nahuatl for “The Mockingbirds”) digs deep into Latino Apr 23–Aug 17 traditions to promote dignity, pride, 1865–1866, from the album Photographs of the Yosemite Valley. and cultural understanding. The group Remarkable views of has pioneered revivals of Mexican roots Yosemite and the northern music in California, bringing traditions Pacific Coast by America’s to new generations. Los Cenzontles now greatest 19th-century landscape photographer creates a powerful, new hybrid sound, creating a fresh Chicano voice for a new Free Admission generation. The group’s core members also operate Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Center in San Pablo, California.
The center has been training area youth One block from Palm Drive, facing Bing Concert Hall • museum.stanford.edu in traditional Mexican music, dance, We gratefully acknowledge the Elizabeth Swindells Hulsey Exhibitions Fund, the Clumeck Fund, and Cantor Members for support of the exhibition, and crafts since 1994. and the Hohbach Family Fund for making possible the accompanying catalogue.
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