The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Alejandro Raul Elizade Gutierrez, the new president of the governing body (Patronato) of the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra, has promised to help build audiences and find a “dignified” musical director.
Elizade says the Patronato will be reorganized, with three vice presidents in charge of liaising with the public and private sectors and helping promote musical development.
An alliance of local cultural players chose Tuesday, April 30 — International Jazz Day — to announce that the International Jazz Encounter in Jalisco (Encuentro Internacional de Jazz en Jalisco, also called TÓNICA) is set for August 2 to 11.
“We’re going to inundate the city with events,” threatened local jazz luminary Sara Valenzuela, artistic director of TÓNICA along with fellow musician Gilberto Cervantes. She mentioned that this is the first year that the seven-year-old event will have an international focus.
El Personal, a Guadalajara reggae band that is described as “very melodic” and that boasts name recognition dating back to the 1970s, is slated to perform Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4, at the small but well established El Rojo Cafe in Guadalajara’s Colonia Americana.
British rock band Status Quo’s concert in Guadalajara on April 25 has been cancelled for “logistical reasons” (i.e. poor ticket sales).
When 13-year-old Kevin Levesque performed his first Broadway-style number in his parent’s living room, he knew he had found his calling.
Local artist Susana Hubert opened a new solo exhibition Wednesday at the Galeria de Juristas in the Jalisco Congress building, located on the Plaza Liberacion, to one side of the Degollado Theater in downtown Guadalajara.
The future of the Compañia Estatal de Danza Clasica y Neoclasica hangs in the balance with the incoming administration unclear about how to manage Jalisco’s only professional state-funded dance company.