Dr. Kristina Jacobsen releases a new album of co-writes with UNM Music Alunmi, Meredith Wilder. They will be performing two shows for the CD release of “Elemental.”
March 30th, 2018
CD Release Show with Meredith Wilder for new album, “Elemental,” at Bookworks at 7:00pm
4022 Rio Grand Blvd, NW, Albuquerque, NM
with Special Guest Camille Grey (Copenhagen, Denmark)
$15
March 31st, 2018
CD Release and Fundraiser for “Songs from the Rez,” with Meredith Wilder for new album, “Elemental,” at Tortuga Gallery at 7:30pm
901 Edith Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM
with Special Guest Chucki Begay and Ritchi Anderson, Jr. (Navajo Nation)
Dr. José Luis Hurtado awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
Composer and pianist José Luis Hurtado, an associate professor in The University of New Mexico’s Department of Music in the College of Fine Arts, is one of the 2020 winners of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.
You Can’t Tell It Like I Can: Black Women, Music, and the Struggle for Social Justice in America
This lecture/performance explores how black women have used music as a method of shaping the public rhetoric and sentiment surrounding the black civil rights struggle in America. Through a historical framework that moves through the height of the abolitionist movement, the Popular front during the 1930s and 1940s, the frontlines of the direct action campaigns of the 1960s, and the proliferation of the Black Power movement in the 1970s.
An Americanish Songbook: Linda Ronstadt’s “other” Country
This talk will consider performances and recordings by singer Linda Ronstadt to propose what I refer to as her Americanish musical songbook. The suffix “ish” here intends to accentuate the “somewhat” or “to some extent” of “American” that Ronstadt—Tucson born and raised—lived and sonically imagined through her extraordinary musical career.