Sunday sing
The next scheduled Sunday Sing will be on Sunday, May 27, at Alicia’s Assisted Living, (Paseo del Lago 9, La Floresta). Singers are hoping to pull at least two of Alicia’s houses together so that more residents can enjoy the music.
All singers are welcome to join in for the fun. For more information contact Belva Velazquez at 766-2538.
Auditions
My, My How Nice! Productions will hold auditions for the musical “The Fantasticks” on Sunday, May 27, 1 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church.
Singers and actors of all different ages are needed. One role requires physical movement and is a non-speaking role. Please take along a prepared song that will demonstrate your vocal range.
If you have any questions regarding the auditions email Jayme Littlejohn at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Elections
The Ajijic Society of the Arts (ASA) meets Monday, June 4, 10 a.m. at La Bodega Restaurant (coffee is on at 9:30 a.m.).
Elections will be held for president and secretary for the next two years. Those voting must be paid-up members of ASA.
All that jazz
ELF, a jazz piano trio from Germany, will give a concert Wednesday, May 30, 5 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church.
The trio features pianist Walter Lang, bassist Sven Faller and drummer Gerwin Eisenhauer.
Born in 1961, Lang was a founding member of the popular Rick Hollander Quartet that won the first prize at the Europ’ Jazz Contest in Hoeilaart, Belgium in 1990. His recent groups are the Walter Lang Trio, the duo “Yuujou” with Japanese drummer Takuha Taneguchi and Daktarimba, as well as ELF.
Faller is a freelance composer, arranger and producer based in Munich. He has studied bass at Anton Bruckner Conservatory, Linz and Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and holds a BFA degree in Contemporary Music and Jazz from the Mannes College of Music in New York City.
Eisenhauer studied at the Drummers Collective in New York City and has toured the United States, Italy, Romania, Greece, the Czech Republic, France Holland Switzerland and just about anyplace else a plane could land.
Tickets for the concert are on sale now at Fiaga Boutique (Morelos 7, Ajijic) and at El Tachihual (Guadalupe Victoria 73, Ajijic). The cost is 250 pesos for adults and 100 pesos for students.
For more information contact Chuni Medeles at (cel.) 331-098-6246.
F.D.R.
Kudos and orchids to the traveling cast of the one-act play “F.D.R.,” written and directed by Ajijic’s Ed Tasca, following a successful presentation at the International Convention of Democrats Abroad in Puerto Vallarta last weekend.
The project began as a skit and has evolved into a 40-minute play about the most revered of Democrat heroes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The cast included Tasca, Betty Lloyd Robinson, Jonny Kottler, Angela Cook, Fred Koesling, Fluerette Schnell and Joanne Cimini.
Expat Americans from around the world gave it a collective “thumbs up,” we are told.
Change
La Bodega Restaurant has made changes in its usual nightly schedule of entertainment.
The famous Los Pios group from Guadalajara will perform Fridays from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Ricardo and Blanca take the stage on Saturdays from 8:30 p.m. to midnight and Ron Baker, Jay Shuffle and Jerry Mayfield will be on hand for lots of country fun from 3-6 p.m. on Sundays.
La Bodega has installed security cameras that keep an eye on the street around the restaurant.
Call 766-2004 for reservations. La Bodega is located at Calle 16 de Septiembre 124 in Ajijic.