The Guadalajara Reporter
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Folk dance
Regarded as the best folk dance troupe in Mexico, the Ballet Folklorico of the Universidad de Guadalajara returns for another season of summer shows on Sunday evenings.
Film music is a surefire crowd-pleaser.
Zapopan’s new Centro Cultural Constitución will be the venue for a nearly two-hour performance by soprano Bárbara Padilla, who will once again sing on home turf Thursday, August 31, 8 p.m., directed by her friend Allen Vladimir and his Orquesta de Cámara de Zapopan (Zapopan Chamber Orchestra).
Folk dance
Regarded as the best folk dance troupe in Mexico, the Ballet Folklorico of the Universidad de Guadalajara returns for another season of summer shows on Sunday evenings.
Monday concerts
Concerts are held each Monday at this classy and relatively new cultural complex to the north of the city.
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.
