Number 9, Alfonsina, and a musical afternoon delight
This emerging band with no recordings or streams b leww me away. They provide a genre and song for every taste. And they had a washboard!! [...]
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Big space, big band, big fun…live music and dancing!
A great way to spend Wednesday afrernoon [...]
Big space, big band, big fun…live music and dancing!
Live music and dancing with a view of the lake on a Wednesday afternoon [...]
Covers, music parties, and Kim Kuzma’s Canadian -Mexican connection.
Mexico loves American rock, but they add a habanero twist, just like Kim Kuzman did in this concert [...]
Mariachi and getting vaccinated for Covid-19.
A Mariachi band plays in the background while Mexicans get covid vaccinations [...]
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 [...]
Carried away on a cello and a song bird
It was so good to get back to Casa Domenech tonight for live music. We had stayed away for a while because Casa D was an all inside restaurant venue [...]
Burgers, beer, tequila and world class jazz. What more could you want?
Burgers, beer, tequila and world class jazz. What more could you want? [...]
“For Ornette” EP by Don Malfon, Juan Castañón ,Itzám Cano, Chacal del Tamborazo. Give it a spin.
Experimental jazz is an acquired taste, one that I made no attempt to acquire until this past year when I moved to Mexico and met the guitar player Juan Juan [...]
Dedicated fans fill Hollywood’s Roxy Club for Caloncho
The Roxy is one of Hollywood’s top hotspot clubs and one of my favorite Hollywood Boulevard venues. The club’s semi-circular stage is large, but not too high — [...]
On the highway through Mexico: rogue tollbooths, smiling soldiers, and kisses.
Music Sin Fronteras is on vacation until Dec.6 when we will start our broadcast again. We are now in San Diego, after driving 1500 miles through Mexico from Chapala in [...]
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 [...]
The concert got rained out but we took a great tequila tour.
We got rained out of a private Day of the Dead concert that was going to be the subject of this week’s LA LA Land, so I am writing a [...]
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 [...]
Angels in Guadalajara? Getting lost after the Dream Rock Festival
The C3 Rooftop is a small-to-medium sized venue on the roof of a huge -1100 capacity – venue called the C3. It’s located on one of Guadalajara’s busiest [...]
Fear (but no loathing) at the Gong Show
I never watched the Gong Show. For those of you who may not have been watching TV in the late 70”s, the The Gong Show was an amateur talent contest broadcast [...]
(Echoes of) Pink Floyd is alive in Mexico.
If you drive east on the Carretera highway from downtown Ajijic towards Walmart, turn left at the pastel concrete sculpture know to locals as “The Shipwreck” and follow [...]
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. [...]