Join us for a bilingual afternoon of classic guitar, poetry and music in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month in an intimate setting. To register please visit our Eventbrite page.
The Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque and the UNM Department of Chicana & Chicano Studies present Hispanic singer, musician, and scholar Tomás Lozano at the Maxwell Museum's Hibben Center for Archeology Research.
Lozano will showcase his latest project, “Presence and other poems of José Emilio Pachecho," a musicalization of Mexican poet José Emilio Pacheco’s select work. It was originally commissioned in 2021 by the Cervantes Institute of Chicago to honor Pacheco’s legacy.
The event will consist of a short screening of the documentary “Presencia Eterna,” followed by a live concert in which Lozano will sing in Spanish interspersed with reading in English by Rima Montoya, the translator and declaimer of the poems.
Lozano is a Spanish artist with strong roots in New Mexico currently residing in Indiana. Known for his eclectic musicianship, Lozano’s performance of Spain’s traditional ballads stand out as iconic. Lozano also plays contemporary, popular and European folk music from France, Spain, Britain, the Middle East and Sepharad.
Beyond that, he performs his original compositions, solo or accompanied, masterfully expressed through his smooth voice, the vibrant finger work on his guitar and the soothing droning of his hurdy-gurdy.
This event is made possible by the support of the Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque, the Mellon Foundation, and the following UNM entities:
