Sunday, September 1, 2019

CONJUNTO ALIVE AND WELL IN THE STREETS OF BROWNTOWN












As the heat receded somewhat and dusk descends Saturday evening, crowds begin to build up for the Ninth Annual Freddie Gomez Memorial Conjunto Concert in Brownsville’s Historic District. There was plenty of music, eats, and dancing.

A few of the inductees into the South Texas Conjunto Hall of Fame that include Lorenzo Lopez, at the mike, Juan Tapia, Jorge Mujika, and others. Timo Ruedas heads the local chapter of the South Texas Conjunto Association.

Conjunto music instructor Juan Tapia and accordion prodigy Gabriel Pantoja. Tapia - on bajo sexto - and Pantoja played such favorites as Atotonilco, Cerro de la Silla, and Las Gaviotas.

Students from the Casa Carlotta Petrina Revival Of Cultural Arts (ROCA) put on a show playing some favorites such as Un Puno de Tierra and Solo Para Ti.

Bernardo Martinez II y Sus Compadres were honored with the Freddie Gomez Conjunto Ambassador Award. The event was sponsored by the South Texas Conjunto Association, Lupe Saenz, founder.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are we going to help our brothers in Florida like we help the republicans in Oklahoma? Who's idea was that???

Anonymous said...

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IS NOT A REGISTERED
VOTER!!!!!

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Anonymous said...

aki estamos y no nos vamos
arriba conjunto!

Anonymous said...

Conjunto = Mexican noise

Anonymous said...

Why would you want to go up north and live with the stupid gringos

Anonymous said...

They're lucky I didn't call ICE so they would have gone and arrested everybody and deported them all back to Mexico.

Anonymous said...

and to europe cockroach european sept 2, at 1:57 pm

Anonymous said...

Sept 2 at 12:57 PM....stupid gringos...I taught Science in the land of morons for 26 years...the Rio Grande Delta is a cesspool of stupid humans to the nth degree and they are ALL MEXICANS. By the way....98% of all inventions documented were fabricated by WHITE PEOPLE puto!

Anonymous said...

Dump stupid hillbilly read the books estupido always taking credit. Cockroach europe is the land of shit. I was an educator in a state up north and talk about pendejos and estupidos a dime a dozen Ha ha ha . "By the way....98% of all inventions documented were fabricated by WHITE PEOPLE" ha haha ha ha ha. It get funnier and funnier everday. Tomorrow they'll say they constructed the moon. ha ha ha ha ha ha.....sma idiota

Anonymous said...

The sad thing here is that they really believe it...

Anonymous said...

The people of the Valley are locked in a society that is poorly educated, low income, governed by corrupt leaders and think it is because of the Gringos they have problems. The cook cowheads, park old pickups in the front yard and get drunk each weekend on cheap beer. They think that is the life to live. Nothing will ever change, so carry on vatos and do not piss into the wind, when you are full of beer.

Anonymous said...

Report: Antonio Brown confronted Mike Mayock in middle of practice, called him 'cracker' lol ha ha ha ha ha lol smh kms

Anonymous said...

September 5, 2019 at 12:09 PM

Sounds more like hillbillys get your facts straight BRO

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