Presenters & Performers
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Jenny Browne
Jenny Browne is the author of three collections of poems Dear Stranger, The Second Reason, and At Once, all from the University of Tampa Press. Her poems and essays have appeared widely, including in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, The New York Times, Tin House, and ...
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Antonia Castañeda
Tejana born feminist historian Antonia Castañeda received her Ph.D. in U.S. History at Stanford University. Now retired, she taught in Chicana/o and Women’s Studies at UC Santa Barbara, and in the Departments of History at UT Austin and St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. Castañeda’s ...
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William Fisher
Bill Fisher is a native San Antonian. He earned his B.A. in Spanish and History at Rice University. While a student at Rice in the early 1990s, Bill spent a semester studying in Santiago, Chile, where he fell in love with the country and its culture, especially its poetry. After graduating from Rice ...
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Lichi Fuentes
Lichi Fuentes was born and grew up in San Fernando, Chile, a small town a couple of hours of the capital, Santiago. The youngest of seven children, Lichi grew up in a musical family; her father played the mandolin, her mother the piano and her grandmother the guitar. Lichi’s older brother, who was then 17 ...
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Juan Pablo González
Juan Pablo González received his B.A. in musicology from the Universidad de Chile and his Ph.D. in musicology from the University of California-Los Angeles. He was the founder and first president of the Chilean Society for Musicology (1996-2000) and the Latin American branch of the International ...
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Ravi Knypstra
Ravi Knypstra was born and raised in Los Angeles and grew up in North Hollywood. At the age of six Ravi started playing the trumpet, and played all the way through his first year in college, when he began to play the bass, discovering that when played well, the bass actually has the power to steer the music ...
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Agustín Lira
“Lira believes that theater should do more than divert. He wants it to teach, enlighten and provoke.”
— Donald Munro, The Fresno Bee
Born in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico, in 1945, Agustín Lira (NEA National Heritage Fellow, 2007) emigrated first to Lordsburg, New Mexico …
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Marci Manríquez
Marci is a songwriter and talented singer, who has recorded with Duamuxa, Rafael Manríquez and performed countless voice-over projects for both business and creative ventures, including Dead in the Sierra/Muerto en la Sierra: Legend of Two Joaquins, a movie a produced by Warren Haack. She studied ...
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Elizabeth Morris
There is a woman who stands out among the diverse songwriters and singers who have been at the forefront of Latin American music made in Chile. In her multiple roles as an instrumentalist, composer, producer, and soloist, Elizabeth Morris has dedicated herself to the folkloric roots of Chile and the ...
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José Seves
José Seves is blessed with one of the best voices in the history of Chilean music. And although most of his history is linked to Inti-Illimani (his voice is associated with classics such as “Vuelvo”, “Samba Landó”, and “Medianoche”), the singer is also a composer and has had a solo career both before ...
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Steve J. Stern
Steve J. Stern is the Alberto Flores Galindo and Hilldale Professor of History, and Vice Provost for Faculty and Staff, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In his vice provost role, he works closely with Provost Paul M. DeLuca, Jr., to address a range of faculty and staff concerns including ...
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Ricardo Valdivieso
Ricardo is an accomplished guitarist, songwriter and sound-designer who has recorded the music of Rafael Manríquez, Eduardo Peralta, Francisco Villa, Axel Herrera and Edie Hartshorne to name a few of the musicians he has worked with. He began his music career in Chile working as a musician and actor in ...
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Hugo Wainzinger
Hugo Wainzinger is a composer, guitarist, and arranger. Born in Argentina, he was exposed to a wide variety of music since childhood, largely through the influence of his mother, a passionate bolero singer. He absorbed many musical styles, making him uncommonly versatile as an arranger. A prolific ...
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Patricia Wells Solórzano
“A dazzling voice with an inner strength that warms the hearts of her listeners.”
- Juan González, El Tecolote, San Francisco
Patricia Wells Solórzano was born in Brawley, California 25 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border and spent her early childhood immersed in two ...
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