Any Esteban Jordan fans here today?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 August 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess not.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/young-accordionists-carry-on-conjunto-legacy/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
Had this been a non-pandemic year, Christopher Ramirez and Ashly Nicole Molina would have been in Austin on a recent Saturday afternoon. As two of the four finalists for the sixteen-and-under conjunto category in the Big Squeeze—the annual competition of Texas’s best young accordion players—they would’ve played live at the Lone Star Plaza in front of the Bullock Texas State History Museum
Middle school & high school kids respectively
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
https://guadalupeculturalarts.org/tejano-conjunto-festival/
40th anniversary conjunto fest in San Antonio May 16 to 22
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 April 2022 14:08 (two years ago) link
So many bands. For my money most of these bands are all about the lyrics - which aren’t mindblowing. For non-spanish speakers and limiting to “the classics” I’d say Intocable are the most musically interesting. Tigres are pretty much the setting stone of the genre. And Tucanes de Tijuana the most fun.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 22 April 2022 14:17 (two years ago) link
Tucanazo, Chona, Me gusta vivir de noche are party classics.
They also have some classic corridos like Aguila Blanca or El Centenario, but corridos are definitely musically boring if you don’t understand the language.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 22 April 2022 14:19 (two years ago) link
I know some old folks who like to couples swing dance sorta to some of this
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 April 2022 14:48 (two years ago) link
Intocable is definitely apt for slow dancing
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 22 April 2022 15:18 (two years ago) link
Oh misread slow as swing. Now I’m curious.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 22 April 2022 15:19 (two years ago) link
Slow dancing and swing jazz dancing both . Like you also see done to Norteno, zydeco and Cajun and salsa. Admittedly all different but some similar moves
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 April 2022 15:22 (two years ago) link