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The Galas del Mariachi will come to Jocotepec for the first time. The Lakeside municipality will host the XXIX Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería, August 25 to September 4.
The event is being held outside of the traditional Guadalajara to help promote tourism to other Jalisco municipalities and bring the musical quality of this genre to other places. Mariachis from Mexico, Colombia, Chile, the United States, Bolivia, Israel, Peru, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic will attend the event.
Puerto Vallarta, Cocula, Tequila, Mazamitla, Chapala, and Tapalpa will also host programs for the Mexican musical event.
Jocotepec’s participation in the Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería will showcaseJocotepec and its Mexican character to countries worldwide, placing the name of Jocotepec in 52 countries. During the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, some activities were carried out digitally, giving the opportunity to people from other countries to enjoy mariachi music. This year the program will again be broadcast digitally.
Translated by Nita Rudy
The mayor of Chapala, accompanied by municipal officials and representatives of the Government of the State of Jalisco.
Editor.– The municipality of Chapala is one of the venues that will host the XXIX edition of the Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería to be held this year from August 25 to September 4 in different venues in the state of Jalisco to promote tourism outside the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara (AMG).
Chapala President Aguirre announced at a press conference on the program of activities of the Encounter that Chapala will host a gala concert on Friday, August 26.
«One of the objectives of this Encounter is to extend to the municipalities of the state this celebration, so Chapala will host one of the events of this program. On Friday, August 26 we will have a gala concert in our municipality,» the mayor shared on his personal Facebook account.
In addition to the AMG, International Gala events will also be held in Puerto Vallarta, Cocula, Tequila, Mazamitla, Jocotepec and Tapalpa with the presentation of mariachis from countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Chile, United States, Bolivia, Israel, Peru, Ecuador and Dominican Republic.
On August 27 and 28, 15 teams will participate in the Charro Championship will be held at the «Los 3 Potrillos» horse track on the highway between Chapala and Guadalajara.
This year event organizers plan to continue with live broadcasts, as was done during the pandemic, to reach approximately 13 million viewers from 50 countries in four continents: America, Europe, Asia and Oceania.
The Mayor of Chapala thanked the Chamber of Commerce; Lourdes Ariadna González Pérez, Secretary of Culture; and Vanessa Pérez Lamas, Secretary of Tourism of Jalisco, for their support for Chapala’s participation in major international events such as the International Mariachi Encounter.
Translated by Patrick O’Heffernan
El alcalde de Chapala, acompañado de funcionarios municipales y representantes del Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco.
Redacción. – El municipio de Chapala será sede de la edición XXIX del Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi y la Charrería que se realizará del 25 de agosto al 4 de septiembre en distintas sedes del estado de Jalisco con la finalidad de promover el turismo fuera del Área Metropolitana de Guadalajara (AMG).
Será el viernes 26 de agosto cuando la cabecera municipal cuente con un concierto de gala, según lo anunciado en redes sociales por el alcalde de Chapala, Alejandro de Jesús Aguirre Curiel, luego de acudir a la conferencia de prensa donde se dio a conocer el programa de actividades del Encuentro.
“Uno de los objetivos de este Encuentro es extender a los municipios del estado esta representación, por lo que Chapala será sede de uno de los eventos de este programa, el viernes 26 de agosto tendremos un concierto de gala en nuestro municipio”, compartió en su cuenta personal de Facebook el munícipe.
Además del AMG, la Gala Internacional extenderá sus presentaciones en los municipios de Puerto Vallarta, Cocula, Tequila, Mazamitla, Jocotepec y Tapalpa con la presentación de mariachis de países como México, Colombia, Chile, Estados Unidos, Bolivia, Israel, Perú, Ecuador y República Dominicana.
El 27 y 28 de agosto se llevará a cabo el Campeonato Charro en el lienzo “Los 3 Potrillos” con la participación de 15 equipos.
Este año también se planea continuar con las transmisiones en directo, cómo se hizo durante la pandemia, con la intención de llegar a 13 millones de espectadores de 50 países de cuatro continentes: América, Europa, Asia y Oceanía.
El alcalde de Chapala agradeció a la Cámara de Comercio; a Lourdes Ariadna González Pérez, secretaria de Cultura; y a Vanessa Pérez Lamas, secretaria de Turismo de Jalisco, por el apoyo para que Chapala participe en grandes eventos de carácter internacional como lo es el Encuentro Internacional del Mariachi.
Cast of “Match”. From left: Mark Nichols, Linda Goman, Shawn Sherwood, Donna Burroughs. Photo: Patrick O’Heffernan
Laguna Reviewers. The Lakeside Little Theater kicked off its 2022 ART (Ajijic Readers Theatre ) series of live read plays with a riveting tale that blends humor, heart-wrenching pain and emotional release in a splendid reading of the Stephen Belber script “Match , directed by Lynn Gutstadt.
Shawn Sherwood shines as Tobi, the talkative, story-telling, aging choreographer-teacher who inside is deeply sad and lonely. He is interviewed at his home by Lisa, played by Linda Goman, and her husband Mike, played by Mark Nichols, under the pretense of interviewing him for Lisa’s thesis. In reality they are trying to glean information that would establish that Tobi is Mike’s father from a brief affair 43 years earlier.
The interview goes off the rails – and the play explodes with passion – when Mike veers into the dance community’s sex life in 1959, ultimately accusing Tobi of impregnating his mother and desertion and forcibly extracting a DNA sample from him. The scene brings forth Mike’s anger and angst in a precisely calibrated performance by Nichols that changes what had been a humorous scene into an exciting physical drama.
In the second act while Mike is offstage, Goman, who has been playing Lisa with quiet intelligence masking a deep vulnerability, brings her character’s vulnerability to the surface, pouring her heart out in a deeply moving conversation with Tobi that veers from her loneliness, her husband’s pain, to the mutual joy of cunnilingus. The chemistry between the two, and the contrast between Tobi’s extroverted raw emotion and her quiet cry for attention is palpable and wrenching.
Donna Burroughs as Narrator expertly sets the scenes, visualizing the action and providing the audience a physical and emotional context that gives life to the stark stage furnished only with the chairs and the music stands of the actors.
Gutstadt injected a higher level of energy into the production by directing the actors to leave their chairs and engage in critical scenes, a welcome departure from the usual custom of actors staying in their chairs during a live read, regardless of the scene’s physicality.
This is a thumbs-up play that is at once funny and sad, with spot-on acting and deft direction that blends and highlights both emotions. The language is explicit, the emotions are raw, the laughs are real, and the characters are ones you won’t forget soon. A well-chosen and powerful beginning to the ART series. “Match” runs June 17,18, 18. Tickets at lakesidelittletheatre.com
Note: some of the emotional scenes in Act 2 are delivered with quiet, emotion-constrained voices that may be hard to discern, especially in the back rows. Audience members with restricted hearing may want to use the free hearing assistance headphones available in the lobby.
Lupita Hernández Romero and Moisés Real, creators of «Son del Telar». Photo: La Tradición de Ajijic.
Sofía Medeles (Ajijic).- With great acceptance and enthusiasm the «Son del Telar» (Sound of the Loom) has premiered, the first one dedicated to the Magical Town of Ajijic.
The musical piece that was created by María Guadalupe «Lupita» Hernández Romero and the musician Moisés Real Gómez, was presented on May 29 with dance and folkloric music in Ajijic’s main square.
The event was attended by more than 150 people. They talked about the sound and the folkloric dance, as well as the making of the costumes that will be used to dance the musical piece that lasts about three and a half minutes.
The song was presented to the rhythm of the loom, accompanied by Mariachi Nuevo Chapala, and the collaboration of Ballet Folklorico Maya and Ballet Folklorico Huitzillin.
«From the beginning it was very entertaining, and when it was first presented, it made many of us cry. People were very surprised with the result,» said an attendee of the event.
The song «El Son del Telar» can be found on YouTube and Facebook; in the video you can see the popular characters of the sayacas and places like the square and the Magic Town boardwalk. The video is by Mariachi Nuevo Chapala.
«There is no prettier town than my Ajijic, so pretty, full of beautiful girls and lots of sayacas,» can be heard in the song written in honor of the town.
Translated by Sydney Metrick
Linaje Bohemio in 2021. Photo: Courtesy
Alma Serrano (San Juan Cosalá).- The San Juan Cosalá musical trio Linaje Bohemio (Bohemian Lineage) appeared on the afternoon of May 13 on «TV Jalisco» in Zapopan, a channel dedicated to trends, entertainment and fun. The band consists of David Reyes Díaz as vocalist and brothers Carlos and César Torres on guitar and trumpet.
The musical trio is known for its outstanding talent, recognized in Lakeside and other places of the Republic, such as Chiapas and municipalities in Jalisco .
Their trajectory as a group began with the three becoming best friends and starting working as music partners for two and a half years from 2019 through May 2022, . Each member also played with other groups and they all had musical experience since they were children.
In the year 2019, they put together the group unexpectedly for a restaurant event. This led them to receive countless calls for their services at parties of many kinds, including music and art festivals which required them to formalize their act and create a name.
During their career, the memes of Linaje Bohemio have shared the stage with artists such as Brandon and James, winners of the America’s Got Talent contest in the United States; Francisco Puga, winner of the imitation contest in the TV show Parodiando; Alex Villareal, better known as «el Borrego,» former vocalist of Banda el Recodo, and countless Lakeside artists.
Because of their bohemian and inspiring music and their youth, Linaje Bohemio became the sensation of the moment, giving interviews and delighting radio shows such as Fanáticos al Aire, La Feroz FM, and El Desmoder with their music.
Due to the high demand, especially locally, David, Carlos and César were saturated with work, so they strategically rethought their roles as artists. They decided to obtain a manager, 26-year-old Victor Serrano who represenedt them with clients and manage their bookings.
Diego Amezcua and Anie Cerna helped with publicity and recording cover videos uploaded on the YouTube Channel, «Linaje Bohemio» . They are also exceedingly grateful to their fan club of more than 4,500 followers that extends throughout Lakeside and other countries such as the United States. Find more about this musical group on social networks as «Linaje Bohemio.»
Translated by Sydney Metrick
Efrén González with his wife and children, during the ribbon cutting of the Ajijic Art Museum. Photo: Sofía Medeles.
Sofía Medeles (Ajijic).- The new Ajijic Museum of Art opened this week with three days of art presentations and the unveiling of three new murals in the neighborhood surrounding the building in the west side of Ajijic.
The new museum, located on private Flores Magón 3, opened its doors on June 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The museum contains works by internationally renowned painters such as Georg Rauch, Carlos Terrés, Miguel Miramontes, Sylvia Fein, and other artists who found inspiration in the Magic Town. The oldest work of art is one from 1924, according to the museum’s curator, Antonio Velazco.
The murals located on Flores Magón Street range from a landscape of Parroquia Street in the center of the town, another illustrates the view of the lake next to anchored fishing boats. The third, located at the intersection of Flores Magón and Ocampo, is a Virgin of Guadalupe. In front of the latter, a second Wall of the Dead is in process, similar to the one located on Marcos Castellanos Street.
On the last day of the opening celebration, June 3, there was a parade with a band from the main square to the new museum, also inaugurated on the 50th anniversary of the life of its founder, Efrén González.
The museum will be open from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. and the entrance fee will be 40 pesos. Although, of course,” we will try to facilitate access to people from the neighborhood and locals,» said historian Antonio Velazco, a member of the presidium that founded the museum.
The presidium was formed by Efrén González, painter Javier Zaragoza, journalist Dale Hoyt Palfrey, the head of the González Gallo Cultural Center (CCGG), Gabriela Serrano, Ajijic Acting Director Maximiano Macías, Oscar Santoscoy, and historian Antonio Velazco.
The second stage of the museum will be inaugurated at the end of the year.
Translated by Patrick O’Heffernan
The Pedro Rey Mariachi School is located in Ajijic, at Constitución #147 in «la casa de adobe». Photo: Facebook.
Sofía Medeles (Ajijic).- The first Mariachi School in Lakeside opened this week in Ajijic. Named after the musician Pedro Rey, the school will offer different disciplines in the most Mexican musical genre, the mariachi.
The presentation took place in the facilities of what will be the new school in the well-known adobe house, located at Constitución #147. Classes will begin on June 6th.
Present at the event were the founder of Mariachi Los Galleros, Pedro Rey, after whom the new school is named; musician and teacher Jorge Cerna; arranger and music producer Miguel Barrón; musical director of mariachi Los Toritos, Ramón García; and the director of the Pedro Rey Mariachi School, Daniel Arturo Medeles Córdova.
Medeles Córdova, director and founder of the school said that they will begin offering regular classes for the young people who join; approximately 35 people are already enrolled.
The school will offer classes to young people between 7 and 17 years of age; among others, the students will learn to play the trumpet, guitar, guitarrón, violin, vihuela, in addition to singing classes to tune the voice of those interested.
Information on the classes, convocations, schedules and information regarding the school, can be found on the Facebook page: «Escuela de Mariachi Pedro Rey» .
«I feel fulfilled and totally convinced to return to Ajijic. I am from here, my family is from here and here I grew up and became what I am. I feel fulfilled, motivated, and eager to give something back to the town for all that it has given me,» said Daniel.
Also on the podium at the opening were musician and composer René Mejía Jacobo; harpist and teacher, Carlos Mata; musician and business administrator, Jorge Corredor Zaraza; the municipal president of Chapala, Alejandro Aguirre Curiel and his wife Erika Eryn Torres Herrera, president of DIF.
Translated by Patrick O’Heffernan
Lupita Hernández Romero y Moisés Real, creadores del “Son del Telar”. Foto: La Tradición de Ajijic.
Sofía Medeles– Con gran aceptación y entusiasmo se ha estrenado el “Son del Telar”, el primero dedicado al Pueblo Mágico de Ajijic.
La pieza musical que fue creada por María Guadalupe “Lupita” Hernández Romero y el músico Moisés Real Gómez, fue presentada el 29 de mayo con danza y música folclórica, en la plaza principal.
En el acontecimiento donde llegaron más de 150 personas se habló acerca del son y el baile folclórico, además de la confección de la indumentaria que se usará para bailar la pieza musical que tiene una duración de alrededor de tres minutos y treinta segundos.
La canción se presentó al ritmo del telar, acompañada del Mariachi Nuevo Chapala, y la colaboración del Ballet Folklórico Maya y el Ballet Folklórico Huitzillin.
“Desde el inicio estuvo muy entretenido, y al momento de presentar el son, a muchos nos hizo llorar. Las personas quedaron muy sorprendidas con el resultado”, aseguró un asistente al acontecimiento.
La canción “El Son del Telar Ajijic” se puede encontrar en YouTube y Facebook; en el video se puede apreciar los populares personajes de las sayacas y lugares como la plaza y el malecón del Pueblo Mágico. La interpretación está a cargo del Mariachi Nuevo Chapala.
“No hay pueblito más bonito que mi Ajijic tan lindo, lleno de muchachas guapas y mucha sayacas”, se oye en el son escrito en honor a dicho poblado.
Héctor Ruiz Mejía (Jocotopec).- With fire, dance, and knives, the fourth edition of the traveling festival «Jalisco Suena», a program promoted by the Ministry of Culture of Jalisco, the Directorate of Operation and Cultural Programming, and the Head of Festivals and Artistic Groups, kicked off in the municipality of Jocotepec.
In the first stop, among six other municipalities, the festival presented a contemporary dance show with a gypsy theme, performed by the group Gipsy Dandys. For a little over an hour the group danced and interacted with spectators in the main square of Jocotepec on the evening of Sunday, May 22.
Translated by Nita Rudy
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