The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
During their Sunday, February 22 visit to Ajijic, masked Tastoánes from Tonalá put on a spectacular demonstration of the age-old ritual dances that retell the legend of the spiritual conquest of the region’s indigenous people.
Local author Zaida Cristina Reynoso Camacho this week released the first of three volumes she is writing on the history of the Chapala area, drawn from the collection of documents she oversees as director of the municipal archives.
Last week’s very different concerts by Jeffery Straker, in aid of Niños Incapacitados, were enormous fun and extremely well received. Audiences were even persuaded to join in, clapping in time and copying various sounds sung by Straker, which they did with gusto at Ajijic’s Auditorio de la Ribera.
Another in a series of exhibits by significant Mexican artists will open at the Efren Gonzalez Gallery in Ajijic on Saturday, March 7, 4 p.m.
A celebration of cultures, Flamenco Son Jarocho, is set to perform on two third-floor stages in Plaza Bugambilias on Monday, March 2, beginning 6 p.m. Produced by Rodrigo Robles and Leonor Zertuche, this unusual paring compares and combines traditional flamenco, the intense guitar and staccato dance of Spain with jarocho, the sensually exotic music and rhythm of Veracruz.
The Auditorio de la Ribera rocked to the “’The Art of Jazz” at the Scotiabank Northern Lights Music Festival on Thursday, February 19 and the audience thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
The Auditorio de la Ribera was packed for last Saturday’s exciting Scotiabank Northern Lights Music Festival Gala Concert, performed by the Festival Orchestra and conducted by Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Associate Concertmaster, the renowned chamber musician, Mark Skazinetsky.
