Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie collection of Northern New Mexico Hispanic music, 1980-1985.

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Keppeler, Ken. Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie collection of Northern New Mexico Hispanic music, 1980-1985.

Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie collection of Northern New Mexico Hispanic music, 1980-1985.

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This collection, recorded in the 1980s, reflects Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie's interests in the traditional Spanish music and dances of northern New Mexico, particularly in old time Spanish music featuring the violin or fiddle. The songs were recorded on 6 reel to reel tapes that have been reformatted to 6 CDs. The song titles have been provided by Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie. Ken and Jeanie spent time playing with and learning from some of the finest Hispanic musicians of the day, including Isaac Martinez of Santa Fe; Eliseo Marquez of Chama; Eluterio Marquez at the Los Ojos Senior Center near Tierra Amarilla; and Cleofes Ortiz of Bernal, New Mexico. For example, they apprenticed and played with Cleofes Ortiz from 1984 to 1996, when he died. They learned about seventy five older Spanish colonial dance tunes from Ortiz. Songs in the collection include old New Mexico Spanish valses, polkas, varsovianas, marchas, chotis, and inditas, as well as some rag time, country and Mexican tunes - some with vocals, some as instrumentals. Ken and Jeanie continue to play and teach the songs of these musicians as well as others they have known over the years. They donated these recordings to the John Donald Robb Archive in the Fine Arts Library of UNM. The collection was transferred to the Center for Southwest Research in the mid-1990s. Donating these recordings to the University of New Mexico fulfills part of their education mission.

1 box (8 CDs).

eng,

spa,

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