The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
If you wish to be disabused of the notion that mariachi music automatically includes an eardrum-piercing phalanx of brightly-polished brass instruments, then we suggest you attend one or more of the events scheduled in the city’s 16th Traditional Mariachi Festival, running Monday, August 14 through Sunday, August 20.
On a cool evening on the roof terrace of a snazzy Zapopan mall complex ringed by the soaring husks of new construction, a month and change of jazz-related events in Guadalajara both educational and diversionary came to a head in five hours of live music, speechifying and canapes.
Leiden
The Festival de las Artes de Jalisco (FESTA) kicks off with an inaugural concert by Leiden, a 29-year-old Cuban-Mexican folk-rock singer.
A local sculptor is claiming his work has been plagiarized by one of the artists commissioned to create a piece for Guadalajara city hall’s polemic Arte Publica project.
The first piece in Guadalajara city hall’s Arte Publica (public art) sculpture project was unveiled this week on Avenida Americas, at the corner of Pablo Neruda.
The young men and women from the National Youth Orchestra of the United States gave two concerts in Guadalajara last week as part of their summer tour to Latin America.
The career of ballet dancer Isaac Hernandez seems to be taking off into the stratosphere.