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Patrick Mendoza

Filmmaker - Musician - Singer - Storyteller - UAC Teaching Artist - Writer

About the artist:

Pat Mendoza, an internationally acclaimed storyteller, author, singer, composer, humorist, and musician, was nominated by United States Congressman Mark Udall to represent his home state of Colorado at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. for the 2000 Millennium Celebration. Since starting his full time career, as a storyteller and folksinger in 1976, Mendoza has performed over 18,000 shows and has appeared throughout the United States and Canada, as well as the British Isles and the Fiji Islands. He has received standing ovations as a featured storyteller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee and the Yukon International Storytelling Festival in White Horse, Yukon Territory, Canada, as well as a myriad of other festivals nationwide. His work has been heard on National Public Radio, nationally on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corp. While performing in England and Scotland, Mendoza was the featured artist on the BBC for an entire week.