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Dos voces CD	Turquoise CD
Fiestas CD	Marimba CD

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List of songs on all five cds.

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LISTEN	De colores	El carro ford	El coyote
El mosquito	La Hormiguita	Las mañanitas	Tamales

CDs are available at these two stores:

Venturi House of Music, 1706 Howard Road, Madera. 559-674-0071

Arte Americas, 1630 N. Calaveras, Fresno. 559-266-2623

 

OUR MUSICAL CULTURAL HERITAGE

These are the songs our grandparents learned as children here in the Southwest United States.  The songs and games in the Lucerito's Music collection represent children's music from New Mexico and California gathered since 1966 from relatives, friends, neighbors, musicians, teachers and old music books. Most of the songs are over 100 years old and are currently being sung by Spanish speaking children throughout the Spanish speaking world. I suspect that most of the songs and games came with the Spanish conquistadors as early as 1492. The songs and games recorded by Stanley A. Lucero are in use in many bilingual and ESL classrooms throughout the Southwest. They are excellent gifts for the children and grandchildren in your life.

The songs and games have been recorded on the following

Canciones Para Niños (1973)	Canciones De Lagos (1984)	Dos Voces Un Espíritu (1999)
Cancionero Infantíl (1977)	Turquoise (1995)	Marimba Lucero Volume 1, 2006
Juegos y Diversiones (1977	The Best Of Stanley A. Lucero (1998)	Coming soon: Mas cuentos y cantos

 

Stanley A. Lucero, a Manito from New Mexico, was born in Leadville, Colorado and attended more than twenty-five schools in Colorado and New Mexico as a child. Mr. Lucero began teaching in 1974 in the San Joaquin Valley in California. He has an Elementary Teaching Credential in Music and Spanish, a Bilingual Certificate of Competence in Spanish, a Learning Handicapped Credential, a Liberal Arts Bachelors Degree with a triple minor (Music, Spanish, and History), and a Master of Arts in Teaching in three areas: Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, and Early Childhood Education.

He is well known for his soft voice and artistic musical presentations. As of June 12, 2007, Stanley is retired after working thirty and a half years as a bilingual teacher. He is currently teaching one period of Advanced Guitar at Madera South High School and providing private guitar lessons at Venturi's House of Music in Madera.

Stanley loves to sing with children in the classrooms. He also performs  concerts for parents with their children, sings with children in their classrooms and conducts Children's Music in Spanish workshops for school staff. Many of you have attended his music workshops at CABE and AMAE Conferences in California in addition to the COSECHA Conferences in New Mexico. 

Mr. Lucero learned how to play guitar from his friend, college roommate and co musician, Ronnie Vigil, from San Cristobal.  Ronnie was taught how to play the mandolin by his father, Cleofas Vigil, at the age of three.  Cleofas Vigil played mandolin and sang the alabados for the San Cristobal Penintentes.  Here is a short power point presention about New Mexico Music.

Yolanda M. Lucero, a Tejana, was born in Donna, Texas. She attended schools in Parlier, California. Mrs. Lucero has been teaching since 1988 in the San Joaquin Valley in California. She has a Bilingual Cross-Cultural Specialist Credential with a Spanish Emphasis, a Bachelor's in Liberal Arts, and a Masters in Reading and Language Arts with a Specialist Credential.

Yolanda is an excellent bilingual storyteller who has written many of the songs found in our newest CD Mas Cuentos y Cantos including Gallinita Roja, and Hombrecito de Jengibre. Yolanda is currently working at Ann Leavenworth as a 2 Way Kindergarten Teacher.  She also works for the California Reading and Literature Project out of C.S.U. Fresno where she works as a Professional Development Specialist focusing on Spanish Reading and Writing Skills.

Yolanda does workshops for teachers in Read Aloud Strategies and Parent Involvement as well as classroom management and theme activities.  She enjoys working with her colleagues at Ann Leavenworth School where she has been a part of many special projects and programs for the Two Way Program there. She also loves teaching her Sunday School Class, cooking and reading.

We can come to your school and do mini assemblies, parent/child concerts or staff workshops!

Please contact us if you are interested in having Stanley and/or Yolanda come to your conference or your school to do workshops, classroom presentations or parent/children concerts. Mr. Lucero's FLYER.  Pictures of Stanley.   Resume June 2007

 

MARIMBA LUCERO

Stanley also performs with Marimba Lucero for family, community and private events with Nora Guillen on marimba and vocals and Pedro Lucero on the stand up bass (tololochi).  Occasionally they are joined by up to four other guest musicians at special events. For more information, click Marimba Lucero.  Listen to Las Mañanitas (Sung by Stanley A. Lucero, Nora Guillén, Rebecca Martinez, and Martha Rodriguez. Stanley is on lead guitar, Rebecca is on rhythm guitar and accordion)  Listen to El Mosquito Medley (Nora Guillén on marimba, Rebecca Martinez on rhythm guitar, Stanley A. Lucero on lead guitar and bass, and Francisco Mejia on drums.) 

 

UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS

JOAQUIN VALLEY LIBRARIES 2009

June 16 - Del Rey

June 27 - Piedra & Laton

July 14 - Mendota & San Joaquin

July 21 - Orange Cove

July 27 - Mosqueda Center in Fresno

August 7 - Highway City

For information about previous presentations, see Calendar of Activities.

 

A CONFERENCE DREAM

I would like to attend, or help organize, a conference dedicated to Children's Music in Spanish where all of the workshops are conducted by recording artists, composers of children's music, teachers who use music in Spanish in their classrooms and other individuals dedicated to maintaining and preserving the Spanish songs and games of our cultural heritage.  Anybody interested?  Here is a list of some of the musicians I know about who have recorded children's music in Spanish.

 

 

The song Frijolitos pintos was written and recorded by Linda Escobar at the age of eight. 

Thank you for this beautiful song! 

I recorded Frijolitos pintos in 1973 on Canciones para ninos and rerecorded the song on the Dos voces CD in 1999.

COMING AS SOON AS WE CAN AFFORD IT: 

Mas cuentos y cantos - a new recording of children's stories and songs in Spanish.  Titles will include: Las partes del insecto, Hombrecito de jengibre, Gallinita Roja, Pronto iremos al zoológico and Metzli [by Yolanda M Lucero], Los caballitos [by Marcia Fernandez], La manzanita [by Carol Perkins] and many more.  CD is about halfway recorded.

Looking for Spanish Christmas Music? Get lyrics.

Fiestas CD	Turquoise CD	Dos voces CD
Campana sobre campana Alegre navidad Las posadas Entren santos peregrinos La pinata Estrella del oriente	Cascabeles	Arrurru

Looking for Spanish Day of the Dead Music?  Get lyrics.

Fiestas CD	Turquoise CD
La Riverana Las brujas	La bruja La Llorona Mi gallo

Page updated July 3, 2009