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Main Stage Performers

Boulder Acoustic Society

They're back! One of the most popular acts at the 2007 Festival, B.A.S. is returning to the main stage this year.

Old school but never old, Boulder Acoustic Society is the new wave of American roots music. It’s what happens when four songwriters get together to mash up blues, folk, gospel, indie and world music to soothe their musical curiosity. Whether it’s a festival stage, performing arts center, dive bar or a late night campground set, B.A.S. delivers musical diversity throughout their set as if it’s normal.

B.A.S.'s music is intense and exciting for listeners, with something new and interesting at every turn. The unique lineup of violin, accordion, bass and percussion support sharp vocal hooks and powerful grooves. The energy that B.A.S. brings to a stage can tip a festival into overdrive or mesmerize a club audience as they dance into the wee hours. All of this comes from four guys who wear vintage clothes, savor small batch bourbon and rock the ukulele.

For more info: boulderacousticsociety.net

Tish Hinojosa

Tish Hinojosa’s music crosses borders – between cultures, languages and musical genres. Moving with equal grace through folk, country, pop and latino styles, her music reflects contemporary America’s multicultural richness. Combining a vision that embraces all of these musical styles, with her characteristic warmth and a pure, soulful voice, this enchanting Texan singer-songwriter has gained a loving and loyal audience throughout America, Europe and beyond.

Tish is no stranger to New Mexico; she moved here from her native San Antonio in 1979, and discovered her love for pure and heartfelt country music. After a stint in Nashville, she returned to New Mexico, before relocating to Austin and then to Hamburg, Germany.

Over the years, Tish has contributed her talent to numerous issues such as bilingual education, immigration and farm workers’ rights. She has also performed by invitation at the White House for Bill and Hillary Clinton. She has gained the respect and admiration of many well-established musicians, not only her contemporaries, but also some of those who were important early influences, including Linda Ronstadt, who later recorded her own version of Tish’s song “Donde voy”. Among other artists that Tish has recorded and worked with are Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson, Dwight Yoakam, Nanci Griffith, Pete Seeger, Flaco Jimenez and Los Lobos.

Tish has released 15 albums, all of which beautifully display her ability to distill her diverse musical influences and colourful life experiences into a sound which is distinctively her own. Her latest CD, Our Little Planet, was released on CRS Records in Europe in September 2008. Inspired by her rediscovered love for country music, the 12 self-penned songs on this collection feature a deeply Americana mix of traditional bluegrass and Tish’s trademark sound of contemporary folk and tex-mex.

For more info: www.mundotish.com

Wagogo

Wagogo, born, raised and loved in Albuquerque, is an eclectic group of musicians that make a rhythmic cocktail out of their Chicano influences, Northern Mexico folk songs, warm calypso island grooves, and the captivating spirit music of Zimbabwe. Their lyrics are composed mostly by lead singer Armando Ortega, in a blend of Spanish, English, and the Shona language of Zimbabwe. With its diverse repertoire, Wagogo preserves the traditional roots of its music, along with exploring new sounds. Broadcast on radio stations from New Mexico to New York, California, and Zimbabwe, they have been re-invited to the Zimbabwe Music Festival for three years.

Wagogo is one of the longest-standing local New Mexico bands of the past decade or so, and has released five CDs since 1999. Multigenerational crowds in Albuquerque love to dance and sing with Wagogo, and we're pleased to bring them to the main stage this year.

For more info: www.wagogobanda.com

T. O. Combo

Are you ready to dance?

T.O. Combo plays waila (also known as chicken scratch) dance music from the Tehono O'odham tribe in Southern Arizona. The intricate melody lines of the polkas, mazurkas, cumbias, and schottisches are played with saxophones and accordians, accompanied by guitar, bass, and drums. The chicken scratch sound is the result of Southwestern, Mexican and European influences, and the music is also similar to Southwestern Hispanic music, such as grupero, conjunto, norteño and tejano music.

We're so sure you won't be able to sit still that we've expanded the dance floor at the main stage this year.

Alma Flamenca

Alma Flamenca is a pre-professional performance company featuring students trained in the University of New Mexico flamenco program and students of the Conservatory for Flamenco Arts. For years, these students have dedicated themselves to developing their flamenco skills and are now ready to expand their artistic growth through performance.

Directed by Marisol Encinias, Alma Flamenca performs a flamenco repertory ranging from exciting group choreographies to powerful solo works. These performances incorporate the passionate expression of the flamenco art form, beautifully artistic choreography and wonderfully colorful costuming.

In addition, Alma Flamenca lectures, performs and provides demonstrations for numerous local and statewide community outreach programs, including schools of all levels, community centers and senior centers.

For more info: alma.nationalinstituteofflamenco.org

Aztec Stories

Michael Heralda will present his culturally educational, musical, and interactive program "Aztec Stories" on main stage this year.

The stories, ballads, and narratives presented in this program are all true and based on documented accounts of what is termed the oral tradition - stories handed down through families, generation after generation.

Many handmade indigenous styled instruments are used and shared throughout the presentations - clay flutes, Huehuetl and Teponaztli drums, gourd water drums, shakers, rasps, conch shell trumpets, and many other unique instruments all made from readily available materials giving the listener the understanding that musical instruments can be made from natural elements that surround you.

"Aztec Stories" is an intriguing and thought provoking way to learn about the culture of ancient Mexico and the indigenous worldview of the Mexika/Aztecs. For some it may be a way to reconnect to a wonderfully rich legacy that unfortunately lies dormant within them, buried for many, many years and generations. For others it may awaken a new understanding of a culture that was revealed only through the eyes of the Europeans where the beauty, art, and high levels of sophisticated philosophical understanding were ignored or suppressed.

Michael has performed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NY), the Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Festival (NY), the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NM), Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), the Getty Museum (CA), Autry Heritage Museum (CA), and at over 300 schools across the U.S.

For more info: aztecstories.com

Feufollet

Formed in 1995 when accordionist/singer Chris Stafford was 8 and fiddler Chris Segura was 11, Feufollet quickly became known as one of the most exciting Cajun bands in Acadiana, not because of their youth but because of their obvious musical ability and the vivacity with which they approached the traditional music of the area. In the eight years since Feufollet has been performing, they have built upon a regional popularity, becoming an attraction at folk festivals and performance venues not only in the South, but throughout the United States and French Canada.

Although Feufollet has often been hailed as the future of Cajun music, a more current assessment must admit that they are now the present of Cajun music. Once idolized at at early age for their precocious musicianship and sent all over the world as youthful emblems of Acadiana’s cultural resurgence, the members of Feufollet have, in the meantime, grown into the music as young adults. While Feufollet remains central to the neotraditionalist brushfire they helped ignite as youths, their latest album finds the band coming into its own and pushing the envelope, leading the way once again as Cajun music extends itself into a new century.

For more info: www.feufollet.net/

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