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Poncho Sanchez

CANCELLED Come enjoy a lecture and performance of Afro-Cuban rhythms and Latin jazz by this famous Grammy Award winner!

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
1100 Shoenberg Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA United States

Poncho Sanchez, born in 1951 in Laredo, Texas, is a well known Latin jazz artist, salsa singer, band leader and conguero (conga player). In 2000, Sanchez and his ensemble won the Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album for their work on the Concord Picante album Latin Soul. A jazz great in himself, Sanchez has performed with artists Cal Tjader, Mongo Santamaria, and Tower of Power, among others.

Cost: Free and open to the public

For more information please contact

Steven Loza
sloza@ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/lac

Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute, Ethnomusicology, Cesar E. Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicana and Chicano Studies