Hot Half Dozen 3.1.23
241 song submitted to Music Sin Fronteras from the US, Columbia, Mexico,England Ireland. It was tough but here are my favs [...]
Mexican music
Music, the Red Button and a virtual Day of the Dead
Governor Alfaro of the Mexican State of Jalisco pushed the “Red Button” Wednesday and there will be less music. The Red Button, or botón rojo, actually has nothing to do [...]
At the La Mezcalaria last night, Yanin’s third going away party
La Mezcalaria is a combination pizza joint (best in town!), mescal bar and mostly DJ-driven music venue in downtown Ajijic. It is known for a young to old crowd, both [...]
Update: the International Mariachi Festival streaming on Facebook and YouTube.
In the May 27.2020 edition of LA LA Land, I told you about the virtual mariachi festival being planned for Guadalajara. At the time, no details had been published so [...]
Staging one of the world’s largest music festivals online: the 2020 International Mariachi Festival
How do you virtually stage a 10-day, UN-recognized Intangible Cultural Heritage music festival that attracts 500 bands from over a dozen countries, hundreds of thousands [...]
Live music is back, all you need is dinner al fresco
A friend of mine lamented to me online recently that everything is shut down tight in the music capital of the world, LA . She said that all indoor businesses were closed [...]
A Mexican house concert: a stunning new artist, great experimental jazz, and no rain.
I love house concerts. But two weeks ago I had to leave a house concert in Ajijic during a tropical rainstorm with no umbrella, so my enthusiasm was…dampened. After [...]
A zombie invasion of Mexico.
The Day of the Dead – Dia de Los Muertos – is a huge 3-day holiday weekend in Mexico, as anyone who has seen the Disney film Coco knows. The [...]
Report on the Gong Show in Mexico.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote here that I had been tapped to judge the first, and apparently not the last, Karaoke Gong Show for Charity in Ajijic Mexico. [...]
Back to the future in Mexico as a post-rock concert evokes the Summer of Love
San Francisco 1969 landed in Mexico 2019 last week. The time travel was accomplished not by a whirling machine or a gull-winged DeLorean, but by the music of two experimental [...]
A Guadalajara adventure in experimental jazz
When Juan Castañón, the electric guitar player for the D/zazter band, said I could ride into Guadalajara for the band’s gig at the Chango Vudú Club, I jumped at it. [...]
With “De Ayer Para Siempre” Mariachi Los Camperos continues the heartbeat of Mexico.
In their decades-long history of producing some of the best mariachi music in the world, Mariachi Los Camperos has outdone themselves with the new album, De Ayer Para Siempre [...]
Gerry Lopez and Trialogo at the Auditoria: music so good it made a jazz convert out of me
I have not been much a jazz fan, although there is so much good jazz here in Mexico. Last night I became a jazz fan. I was treated to world-class [...]
Yanin Saavedra happily intoxicates us at La Mezcaleria
I never found out if La Mezcaleria bar served what its name implies. It is a music venue in Ajijic at near the end of Moralos street near the shore [...]
Where the music starts in Mexico.
I went to three gigs this week in Ajijic, Mexico: a rock band at El Barco, a jazz combo at Casa Domenech, and the street at night. I saw where [...]
A one-handed trumpeter rocks a Mexican furniture factory on a stormy night.
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 [...]