Poet, narrator, baritone and impresario Freddy Niagara Fonseca hails from South-America.  He has absorbed the histories and cultures of Greece, France, Spain, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and the United States through his travels; worked in graphic design and banking in Amsterdam; studied voice and Italian and worked in films in Rome, Italy.

He has read extensively in six languages including well over 20,000 poems by authors native to Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Italy, Spanish speaking countries, and America, and feels a particular resonance with and a link to American poetry.

As a young adult, he actually disliked poetry.  However, while visiting Rome, Italy, he was moved by a pedestal inscription on a statue of Lord Byron in Villa Borghese Park, and wrote his first poem the next day.

Freddy, who is an expressive performer, has publicly recited his poems, reflective of his visits to various exotic locales, in concert with the accompaniment of musicians, numerous times.  In 1990, he staged, produced, and participated in a Dance, Rhyme & Rhythm Extravaganza in Fairfield, Iowa, reciting and dancing to his own poetry with a cast of 30 dancers, accompanied on piano.  He currently lives in Iowa.

His poems have appeared or will appear in the US, Canada and England in The Dryland Fish--An Anthology of Contemporary Iowa Poets, Tower Poetry Society, The Eclectic Muse, The Neovictorian/Cochlea, Candelabrum Poetry Magazine, The Fairfield Ledger, Pivot, Inquiring Mind, WinningWriters.com,  and Passive Fists--An Anthology by Poets for Peace.  Two of Freddy’s poems are on permanent display in two public buildings, i.e. Revelations Cafe & Bookstore and the Fairfield Courthouse.

In December 2004, Freddy created the Candlelight Reading Series in order to generate entertaining poetry readings with inventive programming, aesthetics with true sentiments everyone will recognize, and fun on a great variety of themes.

The main focus is on presenting world poetry, classical as well as contemporary and of all cultures, styles and periods.  The series regularly invites good readers, poets and performing artists such as musicians, dancers, actors, mime artists, story tellers, song writers, comedians, etc.

Freddy has made it his mission to revitalize the oral poetry traditions by modifying them for modern audiences while opening up the gateways of feeling and meaning fearlessly.  This allows many levels of passion in the human spectrum to be accessed.  Audiences really enjoy feeling united while being immersed in attention to experiences they all can relate to.

His fondest desire is to bring poetry back to its rightful home, that is in the heart of all people, and truly popularize poetry, using as many imaginative ways as possible.

Freddy Niagara Fonseca, Poet, Narrator, Baritone, Impresario

Chamber Music Society Fairfield appearances:

03-10-2007 Musical Soiree at the Hickey Residence

05-18-2007 Musical Salon at the Gaub Residence

05-19-2007 Musical Salon at the Gaub Residence

10-06-2007 Musical Soiree at the Schneider Residence

01-19-2008 Chamber Music Soiree at the Garland Residence

SongFests Fairfield appearances:

02-16-2008 Love Songs, Nostalgic, Classical & Semi-Classical

06-07-2008 Italian Songs, Arias & Duets

The Fairfield Musical Society appearances:

02-20-1988 Symphonic Poems

02-27-1988 Symphonic Poems

01-28-1989 A Concert of Tone Poems

01-29-1989 A Concert of Tone Poems

12-08-1990 A Dance, Rhyme & Rhythm Extravaganza

12-09-1990 A Dance, Rhyme & Rhythm Extravaganza

12-15-1990 A Dance, Rhyme & Rhythm Extravaganza

12-16-1990 A Dance, Rhyme & Rhythm Extravaganza

01-05-1992 Passion & Rhythm for Voice & Piano

               at The Green Mill, Chicago

1988  1992 Performance History of The Fairfield Musical Society

Candlelight Reading Series appearances:

07-14-2004 American Poetry in 45 MInutes

08-14-2004 The Night Poetry Dances

09-17-2004 Inauguration of the Revelations Poem

10-16-2004 Passionate American Poetry

11-12-2004 Poetic Fund Drive & Auction

11-18-2004 American Poems That Tell a Story

12-21-2004 An Evening of Night Poems

01-15-2005 Haiku and Nature Poetry

02-14-2005 Valentine’s Day Love Poetry Reading

03-12-2005 Songs, Poems and Stories of the  Sea

03-16-2005 An Evening of Irish Poetry

03-18-2005 Shakespearean Sonnets & Scenes from R&J

03-20-2005 Shakespearean Sonnets & Scenes from R&J

04-02-2005 Shakespearean Sonnets, HELD OVER

04-16-2005 Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman

04-30-2005 A Celebration of Great Women Poets

06-04-2005 Poetry in Spanish & Translation

07-07-2005 Summer Poems in Central Park

07-15-2005 Mystical Poetry

08-27-2005 Walt Whitman — Longer Poems

09-16-2005 The Poetry of Food

10-15-2005 Blake, Keats, Shelley and Byron

11-18-2005 Poetry at the Zoo

12-16-2005 Portuguese Poetry

12-22-2005 Devotional Song & Poetry Celebrating God

01-27-2006 Highlights from the 2005 Poetry Readings

02-14-2006 Love & Erotic Poetry on Valentine’s Day

03-10-2006 Spiritual Poetry & Bhajans Fest

03-24-2006 A Recital of Tone Poems with Violin & Piano

03-25-2006 A Recital of Tone Poems with Violin & Piano

04-29-2006 Poetry of the Goddess

05-13-2006 Mystical Poetry of Hafez in Persian & English

06-09-2006 Tone Poems for Poet & Piano

06-10-2006 Tone Poems for Poet & Piano

07-22-2006 Mystical Poetry of Rumi in Persian and English

08-26-2006 Stories, Songs, Poetry of the EARTH

09-09-2006 More Mystical Poetry of Hafez

09-15-2006 Harvest Time Poetry & Bhajans

09-23-2006 Poetry & Transcendence

10-21-2006 Whitman: Civil War & Peace Poems & Journal Entries

11-18-2006 The Food of Poetry

12-13-2006 Eurythmy, Indian Song, Poetry & Raga

01-27-2007 Stars, Songs, Poems, Planets

02-17-2007 Love Poems as Love Duets

03-31-2007 Narrative Poetry & Haiku

04-21-2007 Eurythmy, Raga, Indian Song & Poetry (CANCELED)

05-11-2007 Mother Divine Mother

08-11-2007 Celtic Poetry

08-25-2007 Night Poems Under the Stars

10-20-2007 The Poetry Of Trees Flowers & Forests

11-24-2007 Food? or Poetry??

04-12-2008 Emily Dickinson: Poetry & Eurythmy

09-27-2008 Chinese Poetry

10-17-2008 Poems From the Zoo {with Eurythmy}

11-15-2008 Poems and Pizza for the Palate

12-06-2008 The Poetry of Light & Dark

01-10-2009 The Romantic Poets

02-13-2009 Love & Erotic Poetry

02-20-2009 Held over

03-21-2009 Nature Poetry

04-18-2009 Sonnets at Revelations

05-09-2009 May Madness in Poetry or the Craziest Poems We Could Find

08-07-2009 Sufi Poetry