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 From Brussels To Guam, Tish Hinojosa Broadens The Horizons of Country Music By Gregory McNamee THOUSANDS OF MILES separate Tucson from Brussels, but Tish Hinojosa's tour schedule treats the two venues as if they were right next door. The long haul between brief visits to both places doesn't seem to faze her, though. "I like traveling, even though I do so much of it--as long as I get to go home for a day or two on the way," she says, stopping for a moment's conversation before taking the stage at a Belgian festival.
And for good reason, KXCI disk jockey and country-music scholar Michael Hyatt remarks. "She's an absolutely wonderful entertainer," he says. "The first time I saw her, I was moved to tears by her singing. And I'm impressed by her knowledge of popular music. She has very eclectic tastes."
Much of the set will include Spanish-language songs from several traditions, an ever-growing repertoire that's helped her gain a wide audience here. "We get great support from Tucson's Latino community," Hinojosa says. "Just great. That means a lot to me. The Spanish music that we play is special. It comes from the spiritual side of our culture--I don't mean religious, but, well, something even deeper." Expect to hear a mix of nueva canción, corridos, and Mexican standards, and perhaps one or two of the children's songs from her 1996 album Cada Niño.
Having recently recorded with Los Lobos and been awarded a National Medal for the Arts, Guerrero's public recognition is on the rise--and rightly so. This singular event of two top-talents is the stuff of which legendary performances are made.
Tish Hinojosa and Lalo Guerrero perform at 8 p.m.
Friday, August 15, at the Temple of Music and Art, 330
S. Scott Ave. Advance tickets are $16 and $18, available at Antigone
Books, 411 N. Fourth Ave.; Hear's Music, 2508 N. Campbell Ave.;
and Zip's Music and Video, 7091 E. Speedway. Tickets may also
be purchased by phone from PM Productions, at 881-3947.
All seats are reserved. If you miss this show, have patience:
Hinojosa is scheduled to appear at UA Centennial Hall on March
12, 1998.
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Home is Austin, Texas, where Hinojosa has been pleasing progressive-country
and folk fans for years. A constant traveler, she's been steadily
building a following in other places, too--including a seemingly
unlikely but indisputably large fanbase in the Low Countries.
("We love your Texas music," one Dutch devotee posted
to one of several unofficial Web pages devoted to Hinojosa. "Please
come back.") Hinojosa does just fine in Tucson, too, drawing
full houses whenever she plays here, as she manages to do every
year or so.
Hinojosa's last visits have been in support of new albums, but
this time around her August 15 show at the Temple of Music
and Art will be, she says, "just for fun, just to make music."
The set list is likely to include several songs from her most
recent album, last year's Dreaming from the Labyrinth,
the 
Backing Hinojosa will be longtime colleagues Marvin Dykhuis on
guitar, and Chip Dolan on keyboards. Opening the show is Lalo
Guerrero, a native Tucsonan who's been playing and recording since
the mid-1930s. Guerrero's music is hugely popular in Latin America--his
"Canción Mexicana" has been called Mexico's unofficial
national anthem; but strangely, he's something of a well-kept
secret in his homeland--outside of traditional- and frontera-music
circles. "I'm thrilled and honored to be appearing on the
same stage with Lalo," says Hinojosa. "He's a wonderful
artist."
