From Americana music and a birthday party to Mariachi and horses
A weekend of three bands, a birthday for a bass player, and a lot of horses. [...]
Music Sin Fronteras
Mariachis and horses: the festival begins
Music, horses and costumes. What more could you ask. The XXIX International Mariachi FEstival [...]
Thanks to Ticketmaster, I won’t be at the International Mariachi Festival in Guadalajara
Ticketmaster made it impossible to give them (too much) money, so I am going for free [...]
HOT HALF DOZEN 8.16.22
210 submissions this week in English and Spanish. Here are my eclectic 6 piks [...]
A quiet night in Hollywood with Charlotte Martin at the Hotel Cafe
Charlotte Martin wowed the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood with an unique combo song, lyrics, stories, jokes and hugs. [...]
Summer Fest with cover bands
The summer festival scene is upon us. Traficantes rocks a summer audience at the LCS Music Festival in Ajijic [...]
Rained out and having fun
The bands got rained out the party went on. [...]
The summer concert season is upon us, and so is the summer Covid season. Will the music go on?
Summer music back, but so is Covid in a new variant, Omicron. Some artist are cancelling or postponing. Should you buy tickets? [...]
The summer music scene kicks off with two hot rockin’ events in Lakeside
Summer music is here and two great events kicked it off in Lakeside. [...]
Producing an album in Guadalajara: a night of live recording and schlepping stuff
My wife and I Executive Produced the live recording of an album this week in Guadalajara. “Executive Produced” is a fancy term for putting up money and carrying stuff, but it was a lot of fun. [...]
Mexican party music. Two extremes in one weekend.
Two extremes of Mexican party music. 4 brothers from top bands like Mana at one end and a authentic, down home local party band. And both ots of fun [...]
Eurovision’s staggering audience and Maggie Szabo. The rest is history
Last week I was conflicted. Both the local Joco Loco music fest and Eurovision2022 were happening and I wanted to write about both. I chose Joco Loco [...]
Flamenco and jazz. A fun night with history
A magic night fusing flamenco, jazz and fun [...]
Joco Loco – a very big house concert
A two-day long, 17-band house concert in Jocotepec Mexico. Great way to spend a weekend. [...]
Just follow the music, the door crowd and the cloud of sweet-smelling smoke
Sometimes I just like to just go a bar or club blasting loud rock . It doesn’t matter who is playing, or what kind of music it is, it will always be fun. [...]
Cool jazz and hot Flamenco…such fun!
Who knew Flamenco and jazz could work so well together? Put a world-class jazz band together with a top Mexican Flamenco artists and you get a ight of fun. [...]
Mexico rocks Coachella with music sin fronteras
For the first regional Mexican bands played at Coachella - along with a lot of Latin bands. Golden Voce is follow
ing the trend in American music---Latin [...]
Enjoying bluegrass mariachi, with octopus tacos
MRA blows out the Baja Norte with every kind of mariachi you can imagine. great fun
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The Grammys in Mexico: Chente’s dead, but nobody got slapped
The Grammys are not a big deal in Mexico. This year they were, and what buzz they created
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Mexican rock and roll. Does your abuela have a poodle skirt?
Mexico embraced rock and roll in 1956 and hasn't stopped since. [...]