In what promises to be a “blast from the past,” Los Cantantes del Lago is already in great voice and well into rehearsals for its Spring Concert “Love & Peace,” which will showcase many of the baby-boomers’ all-time pop favorites from the 60s, 70s and 80s.

 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.