On Oct. 13 we had the pleasure of seeing an amazing singer-songwriter, Tish Hinojosa, at the Oxford Folk Club at Oxford Friends Meeting. Why she is not better known is beyond me: she has a ravishing voice, her songs are catchy (a week later, I'm still singing "San Antonio Romeo"), and she is lovely, gracious, and friendly. She and Marvin Dykhuis, who accompanied her on guitar and mandolin and sang harmony, put on an entertaining show and proved themselves to be relaxed, seasoned performers. The guitar mike was acting up? Hey, not a problem; we'll deal with it.
Tish's music has a Southwestern, cowboy flavor -- she sings about the Rio Grande and life "in the real West" -- and some of her songs are in Spanish. In fact, she said, her biggest success was a song in Spanish, "Donde Voy," that inexplicably became a huge hit in South Korea in the early 1990s.
A long-time Tish fan from Unionville was kind enough to buy us tickets just so that we could hear Tish, and there were clearly other fans in the audience as well. One man in the front row brought a written list of requests -- it looked like it could have served as an entire set list -- and handed it to Tish after her first song. And a man in the row in front of us jotted down the name of each song she sang on his tablet.
I'm told that Tish will be returning to the Oxford Folk Club and I'll keep you posted on the date. She is worth seeing. In the meantime, check her out on YouTube.
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