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Music for a Change with Tish Hinojosa
Mexican-American folk artist Tish Hinojosa will perform at the University of Hartford on Friday, April 12 as part of the Music for a Change benefit concert series. The show will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Wilde Auditorium in the Harry Jack Gray Center at the University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave. in West Hartford.
Music for a Change, sponsored by the University’s Center for Community Service and WWUH (91.3 FM), brings both national and local folk and acoustic artists to campus. Proceeds from these performances benefit local charities. The Tish Hinojosa concert will benefit Hartford Area Habitat for Humanity.
Hinojosa’s latest album, Sign of Truth, released in 2000 on Rounder Records, is a mix of 1970s horn rock, San Antonio’s Latin R&B and mid-tempo Spanish music. One Austin Chronicle reviewer said, "Hinojosa’s strength lies in her ability to weave country, folk, and the music of her Mexican heritage into her own particular style."
A native of San Antonio, Hinojosa has been performing her blend of Mexican and American folk music since she was 14. By 15, she had landed a job singing jingles for a Mexican television station. She didn’t start writing her own songs until she was in her 20s, when her self-released first album, Taos to Tennessee, brought her into the music world.
Hinojosa says she was influenced by ’60s AM radio, including the music of Simon and Garfunkel and the Beatles. After her move to New Mexico, she became more attracted to the new country sounds of Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell. She became a backup singer for Michael Martin Murphey, a country artist who brought her to the Nashville scene.
By 1984 she had grown tired of the "silly rhyming that was prevalent in country music" and began writing in Spanish. Some of her albums contain both Spanish and English songs, including Every Child/ Cada Nino, her 1996 award-winning children’s release.
Tickets are $15; for more info call the University box office at 860-768-4228, or 800-274-8587. For more info about the Music for a Change concert series, call Irwin Nussbaum, director of the series and the University’s Center for Community Service, at 860-768-5026.
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