by the El Reportero’s staff
Galeria de la Raza invites you on Saturday July 17th at 7:00pm for an informal lecture with premiere Native American conceptual artist James Luna and Guillermo Gomez-Pena. The artists will be presenting a photographic account of their ongoing collaborative project titled La Nostalgia Remix. The photographs that will be shown were created by San Francisco photographer RJ Muna and involve a series of informal performances that took place last year at local bars and at Left Space Studio. For this photo shoots the artists invited several SF based artists and intellectuals to help them stage images that invoked the melancholy of iconic paintings such as Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.
This event is free and open to the public but space is limited. (Donations are welcome). On Saturday, June 17, from 7-8:30 p.m. Galería de La Raza 2857 24th Street, SF.
John Santos Sextex at La Peña
Join us for a wonderful Latin Jazz concert in commemoration of La Peña’s 35th Anniversary. John Santos is one of the few musicians who has performed at La Peña every year since we opened our doors in 1975. He represents Bay Area Latin Jazz around the world and is a five-time Grammy nominee. Come listen to The John Santos Sextet in their first Bay Area appearance of the summer. Featuring John Calloway, Saul Sierra, Melecio Magdaluyo, Marco Diaz and David Flores.
On Sunday July 17, 2010. 8 p.m., La Peña Cultural Center 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, (510) 849-2572.
Great Nicaraguan tardeada with Carlos Mejía Godoy in SF
One of the greatest of the greatest talents in Nicaragua, musician, composer and singer, Carlos Mejía Godoy y Los de Palacagüina, will be in San Francisco for a special concert for one day only.
Carlos and his brother Luis Enrique, were pivotal in the New Song Movement in Central America beginning in the 1970s. They were both recently honored with Nicaragua’s highest cultural distinction, the Order of Rubén Darío.
Carlos started his career as ‘Corporito’ on the radio station ‘Radio Corporacion’, where he would daily compose songs that would rain ridicule and scorn on all politicians and politicalparties. He would do it with that biting sense of humor that so few artists are able to master.
Many of his songs, per- formed with his band los de Palacagüina, became asso- ciated with the Sandinista movement as songs of the workers and revolutionar- ies. He even composed a Mass for the working class, the Misa Campesina Nica- ragüense.
Some of his albums include: El Son Nuestro De Cada Día, La Nueva Milpa, Grandes Éxitos, and A Dos Puyas, No Hay Toro Valiente. His music has also been featured on sev- eral compilations of songs of Nicaragua and the Nica- raguan revolution: Songs of the Nicaraguan Revolution, Vol.1-2, and Nicaraguita: Music from Nicaragua.
He is also the creator of Clodomiro El Ñajo y Son Tus Perjumenes de Mujer.
On Sunday, August 1, from 1 to 7p.m., at Roc- capulco Super Club, 3140 Mission Street, San Fran- cisco. For more info and tickets, call Alex Colón at 650-906-4810 or 415-648- 6611.
