T-shirt commemorating the 25th Annual Latin Jazz Festival by Mary Helen Flores who has designed all Festival T-shirts.
Special to El Rrun-Rrun
From Friday's free performance at the TSC Performing Arts Center Concert Hall featuring Grammy TM Winner Emilio Solla & La Inestable de Brooklyn to Saturday's free open concert at Linear Park, this year's festival signals a quarter century since the founder (and late) George Ramirez started it in 1997.
The seating was limited at the Arts Center and in this brave new world of Covid, it was First-Come-First-Served, Seating for Social Distancing. A face mask served as a ticket (and your ticket had to be worn while in the concert).
Credit: Crossroads Weekly Files
Inaugurated by the late great "King of Latin Music" Tito Puente in 1997, the Festival has entertained tens of thousands, expanded our musical boundaries, and generated tourism and improved our quality of life.
Inspired by Tito's example during his visit, the Festival has educated hundreds of music students, educators and working artists by presenting the free clinics, master classes and personal performances he encouraged us to produce.
The Brownsville Latin Jazz Festival is the oldest festival of its kind in Texas, regarded as one of the best of its kind in the country and is well known as a small, great festival that has preserved its quality, authenticity and identity for over two decades.
Latin Jazz is a broad, inclusive genre that brings everyone together through primal irresistable rhythms. It makes everyone feel they belong to multiple cultures not just one or two.
The Brownsville Latin Jazz Festival is the oldest festival of its kind in Texas, regarded as one of the best of its kind in the country and is well known as a small, great festival that has preserved its quality, authenticity and identity for over two decades.
Latin Jazz is a broad, inclusive genre that brings everyone together through primal irresistable rhythms. It makes everyone feel they belong to multiple cultures not just one or two.
(The two-day Festival went off without a hitch except for a somewhat slack effort of outreach to the community. We let the organizers know about it and hopefully a better effort will be made in next year's fest.)
7 comments:
Piss poor promotion and advertising. Never heard about it. Would have supported it but people in charge have no clue how to put on a event.
mucho ánimo.
- saludos de Reynosa, MX
Didn't even know it happened.
I guess you really have to be into that to find out.
Maybe they need the arena so they can charge big bucks.
This is all new to me,, did they post on a napkin at the toddle inn?
I wonder how long it will take the Woke local liberals to figure out that the Latin Jazz thing is cultural appropriation.
Hey at 9:23 thanks for the plug Toddle Inn. Sure could use the business. Just wondering why nobody sits by the windows anymore??
October 18, 2021 at 4:21 PM
As long as there are hillbillys driving around stay away from windows.
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