HOT HALF DOZEN 10.4.22
From mariachi to Björk, it has been quite week at MSF. almost 300 songs, here are my top 6 [...]
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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 [...]
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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Chasing the wild Mexican song and not keeping up.
My fast education in Mexican regional music and where it is going in the USA [...]
HOT HALF DOZEN week of 5.3.21
From 82 submissions in all genres in English and Spanish, here are the best 6 we found, plus a video bonus [...]
Mariachi and getting vaccinated for Covid-19.
A Mariachi band plays in the background while Mexicans get covid vaccinations [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]