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| Gina Chavez. Photo by Gregg Cestar |
Gina Chavez is nine-time Austin Music Award winner, including 2015 Musician of the Year and Album of the Year for her sophomore release, Up.Rooted. Her blend of bilingual folk-pop is has garnered national attention on NPR'sAll Things Considered and the Tiny Desk concert series, after which her album topped the Amazon and Latin iTunes charts. Chavez has been hailed by The Boston Globe, USA Today, Texas Monthly and the Austin Chronicle.
As is a multi-ethnic Latin pop songstress, Chavez's passionate collection of bilingual songs takes audiences on a journey through the Americas as she discovers her own Latin roots through music. Chavez and her band have opened for Grace Potter, Grammy winners La Santa Cecilia, Gaby Moreno, and Grupo Fantasma, and are winning audiences throughout the U.S. and abroad while on tour as official ambassadors with the U.S. State Department's American Music Abroad program. She took home the Grand Prize in the 2014 John Lennon Songwriting Contest for "Siete-D," a song about her experience volunteering in a gang-dominated suburb of San Salvador where she founded Niñas Arriba, a college fund for young Latinas.
Tickets for the concert are $20/Advance. $25/Day of Show. Lobby and Balcony Bars will be open for age 21 and older. For more information, visit www.rocklandstrand.com. Tel: (207) 594-0070 EX 3 Email: info@rocklandstrand.com The Strand Theatre, 345 Main Street, Rockland.
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