Event Details

Join the Friends of Coronado and Jemez Historic Sites for a free monthly lecture series on a variety of topics related to New Mexico History. Lectures take place at the Martha Liebert Public Library in Bernalillo.

Are alabanzas, alabados, inditas, and corridos words you’ve never heard before? If so, this presentation of traditional New Mexican Hispano music is the presentation you’ve been waiting to hear. With guitar in hand, Rob Martinez will blend history, culture, and a musical context to learn about the rich Hispano music traditions in the enchanted land of New Mexico.

Rob Martinez, a native New Mexican, has been the state’s historian since 2019.  He received his B.A.in International Business Management and M.A. in Latin American history from the University of New Mexico. As a research historian for the Sephardic Legacy Project, he scoured civil and church archives in New Mexico, Mexico, Spain, France, Italy, Cuba, and Puerto Rico for 14 years. That research resulted in a published paper about the Crypto-Jewish phenomenon in New Mexico.

Martha Liebert Public Library is located at 124 Calle Malinche in Bernalillo (Behind the Town Hall at 829 Camino del Pueblo)