Art Farm Iowa is excited to announce that bilingual singer-songwriter Tati Crespo will be an artist in residence from July 16th to August 4th, 2025. Tati will focus on her songwriting, have performances, and workshops during her time at Art Farm Iowa.

ABOUT TATI

Tati Crespo is a Costa Rican singer-songwriter who has gained recognition in the Southwest of the United States for her original music on accordion and guitar over the past 10 years. During this time, Tati has devoted herself to performing a variety of original and select Latin music across the southwest, solo and with her own backing enseble, bringing an added spark to her compositions. From romantic boleros and bossa nova to dynamic cumbias, Tati Crespo has delighted audiences at festivals, cultural events, theaters, and restaurants throughout the country.

With her accordion, guitar, backing tracks and looper, Tati blends genres like cumbia, bossa nova, boleros, and huapangos to express stories of migration, love, and heartbreak. From the tropics to the deserts, from the forest to the city, her music transcends borders. Her healing songs and travel stories emerge from the depths of her imagination.

Her backing band she calls Las Chispas, adds a whole other layer of flair — with the melodic sounds of the flute and saxophone, the driving rhythm of bass and drums, and an nylon guitar that brings a flavor of rumba to the mix. Together they debuted at Tempe Center for The Arts in 2022. And have since performed at ASU Kerr, Tempe Festival of The Arts, Phoenix Art Museum and Valleybar.

This past fall, Tati Crespo participated in the pilot residency program at the Oracle State Park of Arizona through the Arizona Commision on the Arts. Here she composed various songs inspired by the migrating birds that make their way through the sonoran desert every spring and fall. Tati Crespo was also a recipient of the Artist Oportunity Grant of 2022 through Arizona Commision on The Arts.

In her career, Tatiana has performed at other prestigious venues across the state of Arizona such as, Mesa Arts Center, Scottsdale Center for The Arts, ASU Gammage, Chandler Center for The Arts, ASU Kerr Center, Hotel Congress, Crescent Ballroom, and El Sagrado Galleria, to name a few.

In Arizona, she has also appeared at cultural festivals including Tempe Festival of The Arts, Phoenix Arts Festival, and celebrations of Día De Los Muertos and Cinco de Mayo. Her music has taken her to music festivals such as Unison festival, Tribal Vision, and Serenity Festival in New Mexico, Lightning in a Bottle in California, Blissfest and Dunesville in Michigan, and Zona fest and June Jam in Arizona.

She was invited to do a TedX in 2019 and performed for PRX’s podcast ‘Movement Live’ at ASU Gammage.

This year, Tati Crespo has focused her energy on connecting more with her Costa Rican roots, spending time with family and producing and developing new work. Through this exploration, she has developed a duo project with her mother Fresia Granados called “Serena y Oscuro,” which explores songs of great sentiment, like rancheras and boleros. With “Serena y Oscuro,” Tati Crespo and Fresia Granados have traveled throughout Costa Rica, sharing their enticing harmonies and passionate interpretations accompanied by guitar and accordion.

She is currently preparing for the release of her debut EP as a solo artist.