FROM TEX-MEX TO TRADITIONAL: ARTE AMÉRICAS TO PRESENT TWO UNIQUE CONCERTS THIS WEEKEND IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN FRESNO
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Contact: press@arteamericas.org
The popular "Nights in the Plaza" concert series takes place on Friday nights from May through September, with sixteen concerts in total. This week the popular Texas-style, bilingual genre known as "Tex-Mex" will be showcased under the stars. "There are a lot of Tejanos (Texans) in the Valley, and not a lot of places to hear Tejano music," said Arte Américas Chief Operating Officer Rebecca Caraveo. "This group hails from Visalia and have a huge following of folks who enjoy this style of dance music," she added.
Moreno was awarded the nation's highest folk art honor when she was named a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellow in 2003. Moreno was also the recipient of the coveted Bess Lomax Hawes Award, and was recognized for her lifelong contribution to Mexican American musical heritage through songwriting, performing, and teaching.
Tickets to the event are $8 and will be available at the door.
Moreno
is known for spontaneously bursting into song during interviews and
comes from a family of talented musicians. Her parents were pioneering
Mexican-American singers in the Los
Angeles area during the late 1930s and '40s, performing as El Dueto de Los Moreno. Inspired by her parents and their friends, she also decided to pursue a career in music and performance.
Now, at close to 75, Carmencristina Moreno is not slowing down, though
she’s survived breast cancer and is nursing a shoulder injury after 60
years of holding an acoustic guitar. She wrote a book about her
father’s experience in the Mexican Revolution (which includes 2 CDs) and lives in a house surrounded by raisin vineyards
and almond trees, still composing and playing guitar every day.
SHOWS: FRI JUNE 12 CALIFAS - 7pm-10pm $10
SAT JUNE 13 - CARMENCRISTINA MORENO - 6p-8p -- $8
PLACE: ARTE AMÉRICAS - 1630 VAN NESS, FRESNO CA 93721
INFO: WWW.ARTEAMERICAS.ORG or WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ARTEAMERICAS
CONTACT: frankD@arteamericas.orSHOWS: FRI JUNE 12 CALIFAS - 7pm-10pm $10
SAT JUNE 13 - CARMENCRISTINA MORENO - 6p-8p -- $8
PLACE: ARTE AMÉRICAS - 1630 VAN NESS, FRESNO CA 93721
INFO: WWW.ARTEAMERICAS.ORG or WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ARTEAMERICAS
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