(Ajijic, Mexico) If you love great music, powerful women, and people who blend art, activism and style into potent tools to change the listen and the world and you don’t [...]
It was a dark and stormy night – really! It was thundering and flashing lightning and raining buckets when I pulled up in front of the venue to unload my [...]
It’s low season in the Guadalajara region of Mexico. The snowbirds don’t arrive from Canada until winter, the temperatures are mild so the denizens of Guadalajara – [...]
Patrick O’Heffernan (Ajijic MX) I just plain love Crazy for Jane, the 6th studio album of the Latin Grammy nominated band Locos Por Juana, released this week. I have been [...]
The last live event I went to in LA before leaving for Mexico was called Vibras Latinas, at the Peppermint Club, on the border between West Hollywood and Beverly Hills. [...]
“Oidos”, a collaboration between LA-based jazz singer and mariachi artist Nancy Sanchez and Mexico-based pop singer Madame Recamier is what I call a triple threat [...]
As I do every year, I spent three days in Guadalajara, Mexico, at the Latin Music conference known as FIMPRO, at the University of Guadalajara. The event actually sprawls [...]
Patrick O’Heffernan I have been sitting with Eljuri’s new album Resiste for a couple of weeks, listening to it over and over. There is so much here – so many [...]
Patrick O’Heffernan I always try to support my friends who are singers or in bands that I love. So I was in a quandary Wednesday night when two of my [...]
On the corner of Wilshire and South Carondelet Street, sandwiched between Koreatown, Historic Filipinotown and Little Bangladesh, is one of LA’s largest and most fun Mexica [...]
by Patrick O’Heffernan. Some collaborations in music are just perfect. Not only is the music magnificent, but the collaborators give each other new energy so that the final [...]
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, Private music showcases are a way of life in LA. I don’t know how many bands are operating in the city at a given time [...]
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, Valentine’s day in LA is a major excuse for a party. Almost every music venue in the city produces some sort of [...]
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is LA’s version of New York’s famed Lincoln Performing Arts Center. Part of the LA [...]