Victoria Cardona is a Cuban American singer/songwriter, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist. Growing up in a traditional Cuban household, she was influenced by legends like Celia Cruz and Gloria Estefan. After studying jazz guitar in Florida and Minnesota, she developed her live looping, One-Woman-Band project. Victoria’s international tours took her across Europe, while her active Southeast U.S. performances sharpened her sound. Her debut album, Que Pas produced by Tim Goodman and featuring legendary musicians like Jimmy Haslip on bass, Jimmy Branley on drums, Justo Almario on horns and Bill Payne on piano and blends Cuban rhythms with jazz, rock, and world influences, reflecting her personal history and cultural heritage.
Artist Category: Latin
Mike Nunziante
Roots rock/alt folk songwriting in English and Spanish scored with a multi-instrumental palette of slide guitar, charango, and acoustic/steel guitar. A versatile storyteller, Mike explores the nuances of relationships and friendships, self-understanding and personal growth, and connections across distance.
Paula Prieto
Paula is a singer-songwriter who resides in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. American by birth, but Argentinian by family and heart. With a soft voice that captivates and a passion for music that transcends borders, Paula Prieto has established herself as an emerging figure in the Latin American indie music scene.
Their latest EP, “Esto es para mi” touches the soul of their listeners, thanks to singles such as “Lo que elegiste” and “Yo nunca sé nada de ti”. Driven by her passion for storytelling and her love for the guitar, she is currently preparing for her next musical adventure “Temporal LP” (release 2025) a mixture of elements of folk, rock, alternative indie in the same work.
In 2022 he opened Ed Maverick’s concerts in the USA. In 2024 the concerts of the Mexican artist Bratty on her tour of the USA and shared with the Portuguese singer-songwriter MARO a show at the Cantoral in Mexico City.
Nicolás Emden
Nicolás Emden is a talented multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer, and songwriter, hailing from Chilean Patagonia. His music navigates the waters of pop, rock, and South American folk, creating a distinctive South Americana indie folk rock sound, with evocative Spanish lyrics.
Emden began his musical journey at the age of six, through South American folk and church music, singing and playing acoustic nylon guitar. His early musical career saw him founding the Chilean band Tejado Pimiento (2007-2012), with which he won the national TV contest “Garage Music” and released two albums as the main songwriter of the group, “Triciclo” (2007) and “Sensación de verdad” (2010). In 2014, he launched his solo career with the album “Como Los Pájaros,” accompanied by a YouTube documentary series, “Como Los Pájaros x Chile,” showcasing his new music busking through the streets of multiple Chilean cities.
Since moving to Boston in 2014 to study at Berklee College of Music, Emden has continued to expand his musical horizons, performing and touring throughout the United States, Canada, and Chile. His involvement in diverse artistic projects, ranging from folk and rock to contemporary music theater, reflects his commitment to using music as a universal language to connect people together, globally.
In 2023, Nicolás released two singles, “Sin Ti” and “Todo Volverá,” and won the World Act of the Year at the New England Music Awards (NEMAs). Additionally, he was selected as one of the 2023 Iguana Fund recipients of Club Passim in Cambridge, MA, for recording his second studio album.
Nano Stern
Praised by folk legend Joan Baez as ‘the best young Chilean songwriter of his generation’, Nano Stern stands out as one of the most important Chilean musicians of his time, with a recording career spanning ten years that includes five award winning and critically acclaimed solo albums.
Nano is currently promoting his 9th studio recording Aún creo en la belleza [I still believe in beauty]. With this album Stern searches for the simple and the subtle in the service of poetry made song. Amid a turbulent world, Nano builds a refuge of words and sounds that reflect the worries and calmness of the intense times in which we live.
In 2023, as the world commemorated 50 years since the coup d’état in Chile, Nano Stern revisited the songs of legendary folk singer Víctor Jara with the release Nano Stern Canta A Víctor Jara and tours throughout Europe, North and South America. He also published Décimas del Estallido (a chronicle in Verse of the Chilean Rebellion), produced the documentary “En Septiembre Canta el Gallo” (with Luis Emilio Briceño), that portrays the generation of young people who revolutionized Chilean song from 1958 to 1973; and, with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción, premiered and recorded his first symphonic work “…Hará brotar el momento”.
Nano Stern is a contemporary Latin American roots artist based in Chile. His musical virtuosity, mesmerizing and charismatic live performances, his passionate and poetic advocacy for social justice result in a true and honest universal message, delivered with intense energy and a high level of musicality. Nano is ‘the face and voice of a whole new chapter of the Nueva Cancion Chilena’ (La Nacion, Argentina), Stern is an accomplished musician, playing a range of instruments from Spanish guitars and violin to the Andean and Nordic flutes. Not to be underrated is the power and emotion that emanates from his vocal prowess and his intimate and rousing connection to his audiences, at home in Chile and around the world. He has performed and captivated audiences in countless venues and festivals internationally often collaborating with legendary artists. As per Bill Hauritz Founder/Director of the Woodford Festival in Australia, Stern’s contagious personal energy and his fluency in multiple languages allows Nano to warmly include his international audiences in the stories of his Spanish songs.
Cecilia Zabala
Cecilia is guitarist, composer, singer and singer-songwriter. She combines the interpretation and creation of music, with guitar and voice, throughout her entire career, mixing sensitivity, expression, technique and intuition. In her music, styles as different as Argentine folklore, contemporary language, jazz, tango, and Brazilian music intersect.
She was the winner of the First National Prize for the Arts 2018 awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Argentina in the “Jazz and Melodic” category.
After twenty five years of career, she has released eleven independent albums, one single and one EP published in Argentina Germany and the United States.
She has been touring internationally for more than fifteen years, teaching Master Classes and presenting her work at Festivals, Concert Halls and Art Markets in Europe, North America and Latin America.
Hermes Croatto
Hermes is a Puerto Rican folk music artist passionate about nature, music, and his culture. Inspired by the legacy of his father, Tony Croatto, one of the most beloved composers and exponents of Puerto Rican folk music, Hermes made his way into the music scene not only to pay tribute but also to create new ways of making folk music and enchanting new generations of Puerto Ricans. The sweetness of his voice and his devotion to his country and nature through his lyrics have earned Hermes a unique place among the Puerto Rican audience. He has collaborated with internationally renowned producers and artists such as Eduardo Cabra, Rec808, and Sie7e in search of a more modern sound adapted to these times.
Olivia Soler Espinosa
Olivia Soler Espinosa, from Havana, Cuba, is Berklee’s first woman tres player. She arrived at the college in September of 2022, and in 2023, her skill with the traditional Cuban instrument, a relative of the guitar, earned her a Gifted Tuition Scholarship from the Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation. Soler began playing guitar nearly a decade ago and picked up the tres a few years later. Now, at only 21 years old, she has been able to defy the odds and prove herself amongst the music and tres community.
Caña Dulce
Caña Dulce y Caña Brava offers a performance which exhibits the music, poetry, dance and traditional attire of Veracruz, Mexico, interpreted by artists who are beneficiaries of the jarocho culture and noteworthy performers with years of experience on both national and international stages. The group stands out as an artistic project that highlights feminine poetry and voices. Creating an experience that connects the spectator with distinct emotions, one is taken on a voyage through multiple rhythms, accompanied by traditional string instruments such as the harp and the jarana, percussion and zapateado, poetic improvisation in rhyme and the projection of visual effects. Offering a assortment of colors, textures and images to diverse and multi-generational audiences, the ensemble is defined by an original aesthetic concept that unites the traditional with the vanguard in a contemporary stage proposal.
Since its formation in 2007, the group has carried the seal of feminine strength and beauty within the traditionally masculine world of Mexican son. The sounds of the strings interweave with the poetic messages written from a woman’s perspective, creating a facet not before seen within this musical genre.
The zapateado (percussive dance) on the tarima (wooden platform) accentuates the beat, while the band’s colorful wardrobe embellishes their musicality. Appealing instrumental landscapes include the captivating vibrations of the horse jaw, the profound and mystical harmonies of the harp, the percussive atmosphere created by the jarana, the robust rhythm of the guitarra grande, and the renaissance-sounding bowed instruments created ex profeso for the group, resurrecting extinct baroque instrumentation.
Thanks to their dedication, innovation and consistency, the group has positioned itself as a reference point for current son jarocho music. They have collaborated with well-known artists such as Lila Downs, Geo Meneses, María Inés Ochoa and La Santa Cecilia (recording “Volver a los 17” by Violeta Parra, in the Grammy nominated album “Amar y Vivir”, 2017). Furthermore, Caña Dulce y Caña Brava has represented Mexico in forums and festivals worldwide in Latin America, the United States, Canada, Africa, Asia and Europe.
Sofia Ribeiro & Juan Ospina
With over a decade of collaboration on various musical projects, Portuguese singer Sofia Ribeiro and multi-talented Colombian musician Juan Andrés Ospina share a rich artistic history. Their partnership has led to the creation of Sofia Ribeiro’s albums “Ar” (2012), “Mar Sonoro” (2016), and “Lunga” (2019), projects in which Juan Andrés not only played the piano but also managed the musical production and arrangements. Similarly, the albums “Mil e uma cores” (2012) and “Casa” (2021) showcase their collaboration, with Juan Andrés contributing to the recording and production of several tracks. Since 2019, both have been faculty members at Circlesongs, a vocal improvisation event led by the legendary Bobby McFerrin, which brings together around 200 international singers each year. Together, Sofia and Juan Andrés have taught vocal improvisation workshops in Spain, Colombia, Portugal, and the United States, in addition to performing hundreds of concerts, either as a duo or with a full band in more 15 countries.
With a professional trajectory spanning over twenty years and a discography of more than ten solo albums, Sofia Ribeiro has established herself as a world authority in vocal improvisation. She has shared the stage with prominent musicians from various corners of the globe and performed at renowned venues and festivals across Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Currently, she balances her concert career with her band and the teaching of vocal improvisation workshops, enchanting audiences and students alike with her talent and charisma.
Juan Andrés Ospina, a Colombian musician known for his versatility and extensive international career across a variety of musical genres and contexts, has made a name for himself as a producer, arranger, composer, singer, pianist, educator, multi-instrumentalist, comedian, and online content creator. He has solidified his reputation as a multifaceted artist in the music scene, collaborating with artists of the caliber of Bobby McFerrin, Paquito D’Rivera, Karol G, Sofia Ribeiro, Marta Gómez, the WDR Big Band, Michael League, his brother Nicolás Ospina, and many others.
