Dear John
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Lara shares a break up song. Lara Manzanares sings "Dear John" during the "Be the Poem, Be the Song" show at the 40th National Cowboy Gathering.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lara Manzanares
Tierra Amarilla, NM
Lara Manzanares is a bilingual singer-songwriter from Northern New Mexico. She grew up singing the traditional rancheras and corridos of her sheep-ranching childhood, and composes her own style of music in both English and Spanish. Following up on her award-winning first album Land Baby, in 2025 she released Yo Soy de Ti (I’m Yours), an album inspired by her homeland and her experiences at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. When she’s not singing or helping on the ranch, you can find Lara on her Rio Grande loom, weaving tapestries with yarn from her family’s Navajo-Churro sheep.
"Dear John"
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Filmed in front of a live audience with help from the E. L. Wiegand Foundation at the Western Folklife Center’s G Three Bar Theater in Elko, NV, on Feb. 1, 2025.
Brought to you by the Western Folklife Center, using story and cultural expression to connect the American West to the world.
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