A Documentary from New Cinema Films Produced and Directed by John Summa & John Travers

Bernardo Palombo -- Film Project Consultant/Composer Bernardo Palombo is an Argentina-born composer and founder of El Taller Latino Americano (The Latin American Workshop) in New York City. Born in Mendoza, Argentina, Palombo’s song, Vendimiador, was recorded by the legendary Argentinean vocal group, Los Trovadores, and became an immediate and long-lasting hit. Since this early success, more than 50 of his songs have been recorded by other musicians worldwide, including Mercedes Sosa, Philip Glass, Conjunto Libre and Lucecita Benitez. Palombo has been involved with film and television before, working on documentary film projects as a composer in The Abraham Lincoln Brigade, El Salvador: Another Vietnam, Americas in Transition, and in the Lucas/Coppola-produced film, Powaqqatsi. He worked with filmmaker Sergio Leone and composed for the PBS show, Sesame Street, which now features some of his Spanish language songs. Continued next column Evidence of Subversion Exhibit A - The Charango

Palombo brought some of the leading musicians involved with New Song music to El Taller (many filmed) as its artistic director, including: Mercedes Sosa, Leon Gieco, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Grupo Aymara, Conjunto Libre, The Soldier String Quartet, Pete Seeger, Luis Días, and Larry Harlow. El Taller is a non-profit arts and education organization founded in 1979. Palombo is currently directing and producing a new crossover album of Latin American folk songs to be performed by recent Grammy winner Dan Zanes, of Dan Zanes and Friends, and Latin American musicians. In February, Zanes won a Grammy for best children's album of the year with Catch That Train. Walter Wagoner - Film Project Consultant Walter Wagoner is an attorney based in New Haven CT, a DJ on WPKN-FM in Bridgeport CT, and a long-time activist promoting Latin American New Song. He road-managed the legendary Puerto Rican folk-rock band, Haciendo Punto en Otro Son, and has worked intimately with many of the great troubadours, such as Roy Brown from Puerto Rico, Gabino Palomares from Mexico, Silvio Rodriguez from Cuba, Pete Seeger and grandson Tao Rodriguez-Seeger from the United States, Quilipayun from Chile, and many others in the New Song tradition. Walt’s law practice is currently focused on business and entertainment matters.

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