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4/5/04

SLU GROUP TO PERFORM TEX-MEX DANCE MUSIC

CANTON – Texas/Mexican-style dance-band music from the 1950s and 1960s, 
orquesta tejana, will be performed by St. Lawrence University's Special 
Productions Ensemble in an event on Thursday, April 15, at 8 p.m., 
featuring renowned Tejano singer Johnny Hernández. The performance, open 
to the public free of charge, will take place in the lower level of the 
Noble Center on campus (formerly called the Undergound), converted for 
this occasion into a Texas-style dance hall.
	Hernández began singing at the age of 15 with his older brother's 
band, Little Joe and the Latinaires, which in 1969 was rechristened 
Little Joe y la Familia, one of the foremost bands in what was known as 
la onda chicana, "the Chicano wave."  He has appeared on over 50 albums, 
including eight solo albums, and has shared the stage with Santana, 
La Mafia, James Brown, La Sonora Santanera, Billy Gibbons and Asleep at 
the Wheel, among others. Hernández continues to record and perform from 
Texas to California; in 2001, he was inducted into the Tejano Roots 
Hall of Fame.
	For more information, please call the Griffiths Arts Center 
office at 315-229-5166 or David Henderson at 315-229-5085.

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