The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Gathered outside the Guadalajara Chamber of Commerce headquarters, more than 600 mariachi musicians played simultaneously for more than five minutes Thursday to set a new Guinness record.
The Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO) is to present a “special concert” billed to “round off the summer” under the direction of Anatoly Zatin, with assistance from tenor Gabin Gaschen and 11-year-old piano prodigy Daniela Liebman.
“De la Interpretacion a la Representacion,” an exhibition of the work of Simon Cruz and Guillermo Gomez Macias opens at the Colegio de Jalisco Friday, August 30, 8:30 p.m.
The music starts at 10 a.m. just a few blocks from the Cathedral.
Guadalajara’s International Mariachi and Charreria Festival celebrates its 20th birthday this year, with bands from all over Mexico and other parts of the world set to roll into the homeland of this revered musical genre at the end of August.
After a long career in the media and art world, Eduardo Diaz Barraza, a middle aged tapatio was taking a trip across France when the idea of a new venture hit him. The cozy bars in Paris enchanted him, and once back in Guadalajara he dedicated himself to find the perfect place to start his own jazz bar, the first one in the city since the closing of the legendary Copenhagen 77 more than a decade ago.
Is this the first time that the stage of the Degollado Theater has been transformed into “theater in the round”?
