Paths to Song
The collective show “Senderos del Canto” (Paths to Song) is up at the Centro Cultural Ajijic until February 8.
Local artists featured are Xilotl, Jesus Lopez Vega, Antonio Lopez Vega, Enrique Velazquez, Miguel Nuñez, Rigoberto Navarro, Javier Ramos, Jesus Eduardo Lopez and Noel Gonzalez.
Also up at the Centro Cultural is a show by Antonio Cardenas Perales – a Neill James scholar.
Lip Sync
More than 30 acts will comprise this year’s Lip Sync Oh La La song and dance performance at a fundraiser for the continuing renovation of the Auditorio de La Ribera. Directed by Michael McLaughlin, the presentations include songs by Prince, Michael Jackson, Juan Gabriel, David Bowie, Lola Beltran, Bette Midler, Bruno Mars and AC/DC among others.
Performances are Friday and Saturday, January 27 and 28, 6 p.m. and Sunday, January 29 at noon and 4 p.m. Tickets, 250 pesos for center seats and 150 pesos for side seats, are available at Diane Pearl, Mia’s Boutique, Yoli’s, the Auditorio and the Lake Chapala Society. You can also reserve at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Lake Chapala Painting Guild
Artist Sonia Mocnik, a member of the Lake Chapala Painting Guild, will demonstrate her watercolor techniques Thursday and Friday, February 2 and 3, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Galeria Sol Mexicano.
Naked Stage
The Naked Stage Readers’ Theatre will feature Roseann Wilshere, Tony Wilshere, Damyn Young and Pierre Blackburn in their next production, “The December Man,” January 27-29 in a benefit for the Cruz Roja Chapala.
The play by Colleen Murph, directed by Lynn Phelan, is a riveting, suspenseful drama of courage, survival, heroism and despair. Survival guilt affects all it touches, and is vividly and honestly depicted in this piece. The suggested donation for the show is 100 pesos, of which any profit is donated to Cruz Roja.
Bravo! Theatre
The Bravo! Theatre continues with the production of “Visiting Mr. Green,” directed by Jayme Littlejohn and starring Roger Larson and Ken Yakiwchuk. This is an endearing play about the unlikely friendship between an old Jewish man and a young Jewish man – each with a secret.
Show dates are Friday and Saturday, January 27 and 28, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, January 29 and Monday, January 30, at 4 p.m. Tickets, 250 pesos, are available at Diane Pearl, Mia’s Boutique or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Mexican fun
Don’t miss the Chapala Chapter of the Guadalajara Camera de Comercio (Chamber of Commerce) party night with live mariachi and an all-you-can-eat-and-drink Mexican taquiza with tequila, margaritas and beer, Saturday, January 28, 5 to 9 p.m. at the Old Train Station (Centro Cultural Gonzalez Gallo) in Chapala. Tickets, 350 pesos (part of which goes to the Cruz Roja), are available at the Camera de Commerce, Yoli’s, Diane Pearl, Ishop or by calling 766-2784.
Jewish film fest
The 8th annual Ajijic Jewish Film Festival continues Sunday, January 29, 11:30 a.m. with “Judgement at Nuremberg” (1961, United States). This film tracks the war crimes trial in 1948 Germany of four Nazi judges, who used the legal system to condemn innocent Jews to death. The star-studded cast includes Spencer Tracy, Maximilian Schell, Richard Widmark, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster and Marlene Deitrich.
Presented by the Lake Chapala Jewish Congregation, the festival features a film on each Sunday through the end of February at Cinemas del Lago in Plaza Bugambilias. All the films begin at 1:30 p.m. except this week’s presentation, which begins at 11:30 a.m. and has one intermission due to its three-hour length.
Other upcoming films are: “Baba Joon” (2015, Israel) February 5; “A Stranger Among Us” (1992, United States) February 12; “Bottle in the Gaza Sea” (2011, France/Canada/Israel) February 19; “My Mexican Shivah” (2007, Mexico) February 26.
Tickets are 60 pesos, available at the cinema. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Mision San Pablo.
St. Remy Du Lac
Soprano Svetlana Ilchenko performs at the official opening of restaurant St. Remy Du Lac, accompanying a four-course gourmet dinner Friday, February 3, 6 p.m. Call 766-0607 for reservations.
Duo Petrof concert
CREM, Lakeside’s impressive music school, presents a concert by the Duo Petrof and their student Saul Ulises Ibarra Ramos Saturday, February 4, 6 p.m. at the Auditorio de la Ribera.
Ibarra Ramos is a Jocotepec teen who began playing at the age of seven and moved to Colima in 2012 to study with the Duo (Anatoly Zatin and Vlada Vassilieva) at the city’s Universitario de Bellas Artes.
The concert will include pieces by Bach, Ravel, Schubert, Liszt, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Khachaturian. Tickets, 250 pesos, are available at the Auditorio, Diane Pearl and from Friends of CREM. All proceeds go to the CREM scholarship fund.
JPO bus trips
Viva la Musica hosts bus trips to the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra concerts in February.
Sunday February 5: Gershwin’s piano concerto “Porgy & Bess” and Bernstein’s “West Side Story.” Thursday, February 9: Shostakovich piano concerto No. 1 and Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1”. Sunday, February 19: “The Piper of Hamelin” with the Ballet de Jalisco. Sunday, February 26: Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique.”
Bus tickets, 450 pesos (550 for non-Viva members), are available at the Lake Chapala Society on Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. to noon.
Giclée presented at ASA
The Ajijic Society of the Arts’ next meeting is on Monday, February 6 at La Bodega Ajijic. Coffee is served 9:30 a.m.; the meeting begins 10 a.m.
Richard Tingen will be the featured speaker, presenting the process of Giclée printing, which is a high resolution digital scan of original art or photographs printed onto either canvas or fine art paper. Tingen is a partner with Lupita Cano in The Art House in Chapala, where this service is offered, which includes certificates of authenticity for the art.
Actor’s workshop
Bravo Theatre Actor’s Workshop is an ongoing scene study class that continues most of the year on Mondays from 3-5:30 p.m. at the Bravo Theatre.
On February 8 and 9, 4 p.m. and February 10, 7:30 p.m., 13 actors will present their fourth showcase, consisting of several ten-minute short plays and a full evening of entertaining theater. The fun takes place at Rio Bravo 10 in Ajijic. Admission is by donation and reservations can be made at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Naked Stage Auditions
The Naked Stage Readers’ Theatre will hold auditions for “Dry Powder,” a lacerating, timely and funny new play about the world of private equity firms by Sarah Burgess, Tuesday, February 7, 11 a.m. at theater, located at Hidalgo 261 (on the Carretera) in Riberas del Pilar. Performances of “Dry Powder,” directed by Phyllis Silverman, are March 31, April 1 and 2. For scripts, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Northern Lights
The Festival de Febrero (Northern Lights) kicks off Sunday, February 12 and runs through February 25. Performances by top level Canadian and U.S. musicians range from chamber orchestra concerts to more intimate recitals and jazz concerts. Six concerts will be held at the Auditorio de la Ri-bera with tickets priced at 400 pesos for side seats and 500 pesos for center seats. The Salon Series recitals are held in some of the area’s finest homes. Two of these are already sold out, so tickets (at 500 pesos) should be purchased soon. Premier Events are scheduled Monday, February 20, 4 p.m. at Casa Contenta 7 in Las Brisas (tickets 1,000 pesos); and Saturday, February 25, 6 p.m. at La Nueva Posada (800 pesos) when the offering will be hot jazz and dinner. Tickets are available 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday through Friday at La Nueva Posada. For reservations and information on ticket sales, contact Maureen Welch, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call (376) 108-1407 between 4 and 6 p.m. For more in-formation, see www.festivaldefebrero.com.
Concert for Lovers
Tickets are going fast for the Rondalla de Chapala’s annual Concierto para Enamorados (Concert for Lovers) set for Friday, February 17, 7 p.m., at the Auditorio de la Ribera, La Floresta.
The all-male voice and acoustic guitar ensemble will perform a repertoire of romantic Mexican tunes, with a guest appearance by the Rondalla Voces y Guitarras de San Juan Cosalá also on the bill.
While space in the center section has already sold out, tickets for side seats, priced at 120 pesos, are still available at the auditorium box office. A portion of proceeds will be set aside for Niños Incapacitados del Lago.
Live from the Met
Viva La Musica sponsors Saturday bus trips to Teatro Diana in Guadalajara to view productions of Live from the Met. Operas screenings are February 25, “Rusalka” by Dvorak; March 11, “La Traviata” by Verdi; March 25, “Idomeneo” by Mozart. April 22, “Eugene Onegin” by Tchaikovsky, and May 13, “Der Rosencavalier” by R. Strauss.
Bus tickets, 400 pesos (500 for non-Viva members), are available at LCS on Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. to noon.
Ajijic Plaza
Xiranda, a Guadalajara band with a focus on all types of gypsy music, performs Saturday, January 28, 9:30 p.m. at the Ajijic Plaza as part of the Sangre Viva cultural festival.
Singers needed
Los Cantantes del Lago rehearsals begin this month for the spring concert, “Spring Fever.” The choral group will sing live music with piano, drums and trumpet. Enjoy singing disco, Beach Boys and a lot of other period music. Only two rehearsals per week (Tuesday and Thursday from 3 to 5:30 p.m.) and two exciting concerts. See www.loscantantesdellago.com to join or contact director, Tim Welch, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Lake Chapala Chorale
The Lake Chapala Chorale is issuing an open invitation to local singers to audition for a chance to join the already highly successful vocal ensemble.
There’s no need to read music, according to director Cindy Paul, since all the parts are online for comfy home study. Everyone auditioning is welcome to come before any rehearsal between 2:15 and 2:45 p.m. on Fridays at the Little Chapel, just east of the Chula Vista Golf Club on the highway.
Stepping Out
Friday, January 27. Huerto Café has live music from noon, on the Carretera (Hidalgo 212) in Riberas del Pilar. Call 108-0843.
Jonathan Guzman and Rhythm Traffickers play Adelita’s Bar & Grill in San Antonio Tlayacapan, 8:30 p.m. Call 766-0097 for reservations.
The Jazz Duet plays from 6:30 p.m. at La Mision Restaurant on Rio Bravo in West Aji-jic. Call (376) 108-0887 for reservations.
Asuntos Varios plays cumbia, reggae and rock from 9:30 p.m. at the Iron Horse, on the Carretera in Riberas del Pilar.
Latinitos Lounge entertains from 9 p.m. at The Cave located next to Fenix Realty in San Antonio.
Los Morales gets the crowd dancing at La Bodega Ajijic, 8 to 10 p.m. For reservations call 766-1002.
Jimmy Barto and Paco Casas play at Manix Restaurant from 7 to 9 p.m. Reservations at 766-0061. Just Chillin’ presents “M. Tonk” Feat with Yanin Saavedra starting at 6:45 p.m.
Saturday, January 28. Ricardo y Blanca perform at La Bodega Restaurant from 8:30 p.m.
Ernesto Hernandez and guests are at Adelita’s Bar & Grill from 8:30 to 11 p.m.
Guadalajara band Tequila Blues plays The Iron Horse from 9:30 p.m.
Frankie Dino is on the keyboard with the great music of the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s starting 6:45 p.m. at Just Chillin’.
Peter Moore will play rock and folk starting 4 p.m. at El Bar-Co in Ajijic.
Sunday, January 29. Daniel Cordero plays acoustic guitar from 3 p.m. at The Iron Horse.
The Jazz Duet entertains at La Bodega Restaurant starting 6:30 p.m.
Blue Jay Slim plays with Blue Velvet at El Bar-Co from 4:30 to 7 p.m.