This morning on KSEE Sunrise Faith Sidlow talked with Songstress >Merlinda Espinosa and percussionist Felipe Alanis who will be performing at the Rogue Festival this week.
Beautiful, soothing and engaging music performed by local songstress and guitarist. Merlinda Espinosa explores the great music of the Past, from throughout the Americas in English and Spanish. Three great nights of heartening music that will inspire even the youngest at heart!
Performance times and locations:
Million Too – 1153 N Fulton St.
1:00 PM, Sat., 3/6
Veni Vidi Vici – 1116 N Fulton St.:
7:30 PM, Wed., 3/10
2:30 PM, Sat., 3/13
Latecomers admitted
Beautiful, soothing and engaging music performed by local songstress and guitarist. Merlinda Espinosa explores the great music of the Past, from throughout the Americas in English and Spanish. Three great nights of heartening music that will inspire even the youngest at heart!
>Merlinda Espinosa has been singing and performing since she was a young child. Born and raised in Fresno, California, now 23, she continues to perform, bringing great crowds in the hundreds and thousands with her soulful and "chill inducing voice." Her music ranges from Mexican traditional, rancheras, Nuevo Canto of Latin America, country, r&b, ballads and jazz, and sung in a very unique style in both English and Spanish.
At the age of 11, she eagerly began taking lessons in both voice and guitar, with much encouragement from her parents, from, "NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award Winner 2008" and "Co-Founder of Teatro
Campesino", Agustin Lira.
From there she joined, and still joins, as a guest artist with duo Agustin Lira and Patricia Wells- Solórzano, "Alma," performing at local Chicano Cultural Events, Local and State Protest Marches for Immigrant Rights, as well as colleges and universities state wide.
As she continued to excel in music, Merlinda joined again with Lira and Wells in their 2001 production of "Esperanza and Luz, A Tale of Two Immigrant Women," where she played a young refugee of El Salvador in search of a better life. Since then, she has performed in every year's production of Teatro de la Tierra's featured group, Teatro Inmigrante, taking on strong leading roles. In 2008, she was featured in their "Honest Sancha's Used Mexican Lot" and "Los Dos Caras del Patroncito." And more recently in April 2009, a remake of "Esperanza and Luz" was performed at The Fresno Art Museum, Merlinda, this time playing in the part of Esperanza, A union organizer of Juarez, Mexico.
A 2004 graduate of University High School, a school for gifted and talented students musically inclined, Merlinda studied musicology/music theory, excelling in all the arts of music, theatre, sculpture and painting/drawing.
Achieving high standings in the statewide "Emerging Young Artist Awards Competition 2004," Merlinda was invited, upon personal invitation, to perform in Local " 2002- 2006, 2009 Rogue Festivals" and "Tamejavi Festival 2006".
Currently, Merlinda is performing regularly at local venues in Fresno's well known Tower District, Continuing to add new music to her repertoire.
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