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DESCRIPTION:La Familia Peña-Govea\nFriday, August 8 - 7:00PM\n\n“The family that 
 plays together stays together. That is certainly true of the Peña-Govea 
 clan in the San Francisco Mission District. …they have become a cultural 
 force in the Bay Area. (Jesse “Chuy” Varela, Latin Beat Magazine, Jan. 
 2001)\n\nDo you remember the scenes in Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild 
 Bunch” where, between battles in Revolution-era Mexico, the people are 
 resting and drinking and eating and there’s always a band playing? The 
 Peña-Govea family could have been that band! The music they play has the 
 same post-colonial European influences performed on traditional instruments 
 and their family history shows deep musical roots in the region. In the 
 early 1900’s, grandfathers on both sides of the family played fiddle in 
 the Monterrey area of northern Mexico. One of these grandfathers, Jesus 
 Govea, later migrated to Mexico City where he and his son Juan played live 
 music to accompany silent movies in neighborhood theaters. In 1942, Juan 
 dropped his studies at the National Conservatory of Music in order to help 
 support his mother and 8 younger brothers and sisters. World War II had 
 just created a great demand for labor and the U.S. government opened its 
 arms to millions of Mexican braceros. A young Juan Govea was among these 
 millions - coming to California as a railroad worker, meeting his future 
 wife, and raising a family - all the while instilling a passion in his 
 children for music and culture, education and social justice.\n\n60 years 
 later in the San Francisco Bay Area, these generations of musical forebears 
 have borne fruit inc. Two multi-instrumentalist/vocalist/composer daughters 
 (Rene, age 21 and Cecilia, age 13) have been exposed by their parents 
 (Susan Peña and Miguel Govea) to music and art from the earliest ages. The 
 result of this exposure is an exciting, living, breathing tradition of 
 music making that gathers influences from Mexico, Colombia, jazz and 
 salsa.\n\nLa Familia Peña-Govea is performing at Red Hill thanks to the 
 generosity of the San Francisco Public Library! To update yourself on the 
 progress of our beloved branch in Bernal see their new blogspot: 
 http://bernalheightsbranchlibrary.blogspot.com/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/02/18522102.php
SUMMARY:La Familia Peña-Govea at Red hill
LOCATION:Red Hill Books\n401 Cortland Ave\nBernal Heights\nSan Francisco, 
 CA\n94110\n415-648-5331\nhttp://www.dogearedbooks.com/redhill
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/02/18522102.php
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