Benjamin Hunter is an award winning multi-instrumentalist—violin, mandolin, guitar, percussion, voice—whose interests lie in roots music from around the world. Born in Lesotho, raised predominantly in Phoenix, with stints in Seattle and Zimbabwe, Ben was raised classically on violin, but now plays a variety of styles—roots, folk, jazz, blues, gospel, world. Ben plays in the […]
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Randy Hathaway released a double CD of his compositions, Classical Guitar In America, which has received international reviews and generous radio play across the US, Canada and UK. He was the co-founder and director of the Seattle School of Music and graduate of Cornish College of the Arts. Randy resides in Yakima Washington. Randy, classical […]
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Peter Colclasure graduated with a degree in piano performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004, before going on to spend a decade touring, recording, and performing with various bands. He lived in Seattle from 2007 to 2012, where he became involved in dance accompaniment, playing piano and writing music for Dance Fremont, Spectrum Ballet, […]
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Singer and songwriter Juan Barco, born in Lytle, Texas, brings an enormous wealth of experience to the Tejano folk music for which he is so well-known in the Northwest and his native Texas. His songs are colored by his childhood experiences in the migrant labor camps of the South and the Midwest, his service in […]
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Chang Hye-Jin, a kayagum (12 string zither) performer, was born in Korea where she attended the National High School for Korean Traditional Music, and received her B.A. in kayagum from Hanyang University in Seoul. Hye-Jin has performed for radio broadcasts in Seoul and has played contemporary compositions, shinawi (instrumental improvisational performance), and court music and […]
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Sueño is a dynamic group of Mexican-American musicians who play traditional conjunto music, the energetic accordion-dominated sound so important to the Tejano and Chicano communities throughout the United States. Sueño was born out of the desire of Cruz Rangel, the lead accordion and bajo sexto player, to pass his knowledge of the conjunto tradition on […]
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Nisha Joshi is a vocalist and sitar player who was born and raised in Rajasthan, India. Today, she performs both classical and folk repertoire at community concerts and festivals and in private homes during traditional Indian holiday celebrations in the Portland area. Many of the folk songs Joshi performs were learned in grammar school or […]
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Violinist Trinidad Marquez was born before the Mexican Revolution in the State of Michoacan, Mexico. He learned to play violin from his father starting at age four, and later played to accompany silent movies with his father’s orchestra. After moving to the United States, Marquez formed orchestras in both the Rio Grande Valley of Texas […]
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Manuel Cavazos, leader of Los Paisanos, has been playing to audiences in Southern Idaho for over ten years. With Los Paisanos, he focuses on corridos (ballads), rancheras, and boleros that bring instant recognition to anyone with roots in Mexican culture. The group typically plays for community and church-related events from weddings to company picnics. They […]
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Before settling in Portland, Oregon, Neftali Rivera was a professional musician in his native Puerto Rico. For several years there, he and his groups played popular dance music such as the meringue from the Dominican Republic. Later, he decided to return to his first love, the traditional music of Puerto Rico. In Portland, Rivera has […]
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