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San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival

Sep 15 2010 - Sep 26 2010  •  San Jose CA  •  Plaza de Cesar Chavez (and other locations)
Genre(s): latin-roots, mariachi, world
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Founded: 1992
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Phone: 408-928-5564
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Category: Roots
Region: Golden West
Type: Festival

"Now in its 18th year, the San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival presents a week-long schedule of music and educational events, drawing more than 50,000 people to hear artists like Linda Ronstadt, Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Mariachi Cobre, Los Lobos, and Carlos Santana. The Festival is the cornerstone of the Mexican Heritage Corporation's programming and the largest of its type in the nation. During the Festival, educational music and dance-master classes are offered by internationally renowned mariachis and maestros of ballet folklórico. The Festival closes with an outdoor feria, featuring music, arts, cultural activities and food in a celebration of Mexican heritage and cuisine."—Description by festival




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Ronstadt and Mariachi Los Camperos to close festival's free, three-stage Feria program on September 27

With the San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival already underway with cultural programs all week, the festival announced the full program for Sunday's Feria Del Mariachi Presented by Target. The free event in downtown San Jose's Plaza de Cesar Chavez will present three stages of entertainment and other attractions from 10 am to 6:30 pm.

The highlight of the day may come when festival artistic director Linda Ronstadt joins Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano during the closing...

SJ Mariachi postpones art exhibit but adds second film screening

The opening of a blockbuster art exhibition, “The Lost Murals of Miguel Covarrubias,” has been dropped from the schedule of the upcomng San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival. Exhibition curators needed more time to incorporate recently discovered art and artifacts from History San José’s permanent collection into the exhibition. The exhibit is now scheduled to open next year at San Jose City Hall in time for Cinco de Mayo.

The festival also announced that it has added...

Linda Ronstadt and Joan Baez promote next month's San Jose Mariachi Festival as a celebration of Mexican-American heritage

Two icons of American popular music described their personal journeys to embrace their Mexican identity at a press conference to promote the upcoming San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival.

Pop singer turned musical folklorist Linda Ronstadt, who is the festival’s artistic director, and folk balladeer and social activist Joan Baez, who will be a festival headliner, each came to...

Beyond the music, San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival will exhibit Covarrubias' Paciic murals

The San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival is much more than a music festival. Among the attractions at its 18th annual festival is an important art opening of "The Lost Murals of Miguel Covarrubias," on Tuesday, September 22 at the San Jose City Hall.

Mariachi and much more—San Jose Mexican heritage festival makes a play for national attention

The newly renamed San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival is ramping up to present the biggest and most ambitious program in its 18 year history. With top name musical performers in three gala evening concerts, cutural events all week long, free outdoor festival day—plus sponsorships and tourism tie-ins, the festival is making a play for national recognition.

It is...

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