Tuneful crooning for the SPA, Compiled by Atención staff, The sound of Mexico's musical legacy, By Tim Hazell, Hop along to eclectic musical mix

The SPA musical afternoon features the talents of country singer and songwriter Carolina Miller and the Tuna Tradicional, a local group of troubadours that sing traditional songs from 17th-century Mexico and Spain.

Although they will not be singing renditions of well-known popular pooch songs, Atención put together this pop quiz to test your musical knowledge of dogs in songs.

Not pop music-a pop quiz!

Q 1: With the lyric "If you don't know how to do it, I'll show you how!," what is the title of title of this famous song recorded by The Stones, Aerosmith and Roger Daltry, among others, that sounds like it's about puppy exercise?

Q 2: What pelvis shaker crooned the complaint: "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog"?

Q 3: This band sang joyfully to the world about Jeremiah the bullfrog, but they were a canine club.

Q 4: This '70's pop icon with a last name not to be barked at warned young girls to beware of "Diamond Dogs."

Q 5: Who sang "Me and you and a dog named Boo …"? Hint: "wolf" in Spanish.

Q 6: This song, which sounds like a hangover cure, appeared on Nazareth's hit album "Love Hurts."

Q 7: What is the title of the song with the lyrics "Sheepdog standing in the rain, Bullfrog doing it again …"? (Clue: Sung by famous insects from Liverpool while on the Yellow Submarine.)

And, not to forget our feline friends, do you know the answer to these?

Q8: Born Steven Demetri Georgiou, this popular singer's first album came out in 1966 and was titled "I Love My Dog."

Q 9: This 1974 hit by Harry Chapin recounts the tale of a busy father who ignored his son, who then grew up to be too busy for his father.

Q 10: This 1977 cover song by Ted Nugent sounds like a bacterial infection following an attack by an angry feline.

Support the SPA's efforts for fundraising, organizing, building and, as always, adopting more animals. This year, 220 animals have found new homes in San Miguel and as far away as California, Manhattan, Texas, Denver and even Germany! And 500 animals have been neutered.

Join the SPA for a pleasant day in the country with good people and good music and help them help the animals. We all benefit from this!

Answers:1. "Walking the Dog" 2. Elvis Presley 3. Three Dog Night 4. David Bowie

5. Lobo 6. "Hair of the Dog" 7. "Hey Bulldog" 8. Cat Stevens

9. "Cat's in the Cradle" 10. "Cat Scratch Fever"

Tuna Tradicional and Carolina Miller Concert
Benefit concert for the SPA
Sunday, June 11, 5pm, Pedro Páramo 34, El Mirador, Los Frailes
60 pesos

Collar Del Viento (The Wind's Necklace), the well-known group of six children and adolescents, is making a transition from its youthful beginnings.

The members continue to innovate and develop as young adult musicians. Their constantly expanding repertoire includes original compositions using copies of pre-Hispanic instruments from Mexico's ancient past blended with ethnic influences and rhythms. This special multi-media performance includes dance and pre-Hispanic theater, an homage to Ehecatl, the wind god of the Aztecs. The choreographed work of movement and music was a collaboration between Collar del Viento and Maestros Nestor Vargas and Gonzalo Gomez of Pozos.

The performance captures the sounds and traditions from Mexico's musical legacy of 3,000 years, including the full range of instruments that would have formed part of a pre-Hispanic ensemble. These include huehuetls, ceremonial drums of different timbres, the chicahuazli, or rain serpent, with its unforgettable evocation of a tropical downpour, the full range of clay flutes, silbatos, that duplicate sounds of insects and birds, globular ocarinas shaped like human-animal hybrids and the stately double flutes with their contrasting scales and harmonies. Ehecatl will enter as a figure based on authentic images from the codices to the blast of the conch trumpet. The addition of pre-Hispanic theater and future plans for compositions involving Nahuatl poetry set to music are all part of the orchestra's continuing evolution.

Collar del Viento represents part of Mexico's current interest in the preservation and revitalization of cultural roots stretching back to the beginnings of early settlements and societies in Mesoamerica. Deities and rituals of great civilizations endure in Mexico's literature and oral traditions. Sixty-two native languages are still spoken today, a living and vibrant archeology.

Collar del Viento has won the hearts of San Miguel's Mexican and foreign communities alike with their spell-binding and hypnotic music, composed on authentic copies of actual museum pieces. They are the exponents of an inalienable cultural heritage. The group enjoys the support of the San Miguel Educational Foundation and the Texas Heritage Music Foundation.

Native music is meant to inspire religious fervor and is an expression of the Mexican's desire to honor and appease ancestral gods. It is an expression of faith and hope, whether pagan or Christian. Collar del Viento performs with consummate skill and professionalism. The group's music can only be alluded to in words. It is powerful, mantra-like and uplifting. They have received international attention, invitations to perform abroad and publication in an international Story Kids Books release, "Making Music."

Tickets are 40 pesos (orchestra), 30 pesos (boxes) and 20 pesos (balcony) and will go on sale the week of June 12 at the Ángela Peralta box office, Hernández Macías 62, opposite Bellas Artes. This sacred music will touch adults and children alike. Families are cordially invited to attend.

Concert of pre-Hispanic music by Collar del Viento
Saturday, June 17, 7:30pm, Teatro Ángela Peralta, cnr Mesones & Hernández Macías
40/30/20 pesos

José Luis Chagoyan "Hopalong" has towed toured in Germany, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and throughout the United States. In Mexico City Hopalong played for television and recorded with various pop singers.

He has recorded 15 CDs, both solo performances and in collaboration with other artists.

The ensemble of local professional musicians who accompany Hopalong during this concert of his original compositions includes Peter Ross on flute; Severo Barrera, Jack Stillwater and Frances Zelenka on acoustic guitar; Julian Arcos on electric guitar; Marco Aurelio Cerrillo on piano; Mariana Ferreiro on violin; Roland Torikian on trumpet and Carlos de Aguinaga on drums. Hopalong rounds out the ensemble, playing upright bass and guitar. The concert will include a range of musical styles, including bossa, rhumba, boleros, waltzes, jazz, folk and pop.

Hopalong's music is characterized by the beauty of his melodies and sensitivity of the arrangements.

Tickets are available for sale at the Teatro Ángela Peralta. For more information, phone 152-7381 or 152-2200.

Concert of music by "Hopalong"
Friday, June 16, 8pm
Angela Peralta Theater, cnr Mesones & Hernández Macías
100/70 pesos