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Northern Lights Festival updates concert schedule

Once again, it’s the time of year when music lovers start anticipating the next Northern Lights Music Festival, now to be called Northern Lights Festival de Febrero. Every year, festival organizers say that it keeps getting better and better, and although it is hard to believe, this year is, in fact, better than ever. The line-up of truly stellar performers is astonishing, and especially so because this is Ajijic, not New York or Toronto, and because the ticket prices are Lakeside’s most attractive bargain.


2016 Lakeside Festivities & Special Events

Along with all the national holidays and festivities that will be observed during 2016, there will be many special celebrations going on in the Lake Chapala area. Check the Reporter’s pages for news of big events the local government will be scheduling month by month. Meanwhile, here’s a glance at the principal fiestas patronales honoring religious patrons and important saints, plus other traditional happenings that will keep the community jumping through the year: 

Jocotepec celebrates revered Señor del Monte

The townspeople of Jocotepec and pilgrims from near and far will congregate over the next two weeks to reaffirm their Christian faith and manifest devotion to the local spiritual patron El Señor del Monte (The Lord of the Mount).