Little listen to what you can
expect that this year's Sejono
Congmunto Music Festival.
You can catch many more acts to,
like Flaco Jimenez, the Texas Maniacs.
And texamaniacs,
I should say it many more are.
Here to tell us more about
all the fun is Christina by E
She's the executive director at
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center.l
right, so tell me all about this year's
event, this year's festival. It's the 41st,
right? That's right.
This is a very long tradition
that this festival has it startd
actually an appreciation for
Cojunto music all over the state
and all over the country. Well,
this is like the the
heartbeat of. Music, right.
This is the heartbeat of our culture.
It's the heartbeat of our cultu.
We hear this music at our parti,
weddings, quinceaneras,
you know, backyard barbecues.
And many of us grew up, you kno,
with this soundtrack in our liv.
So this is a, this festival is e
one place to come and enjoy that
and connect with that culture.
Yeah, it's
all part of our lives.
I mean, matter of fact.
The band behind me here
is father and son, right?
That's right, their fathers.
And this is Santiago Garza and his father,
and they're from the the group Santiago
Garza Lana to Alyssa and there.
Well known to the Kojunto Festi,
they've performed in the
Kojunto Festival for years.
Santiago actually taught
accordion lessons at the weathe.
I can believe it. And he's
really good and he's great.
Yeah. So, you know, this is,
that's what the Kojunto Festival does.
It keeps these traditions alive,
keeps them moving.
Yeah. You know, for those
folks that want to know more
about the Kojunto traditions,
where can they go to find that
out? They can go to our website,
Weather loop, a cultural arts.o.
And again and.
And ticket information is
available there, Everything.
And I just want to let the
audience know that this is going
to happen at Rosedale Park.
Rosedale Park, OK. And real
quick as some of the lineup,
yes, we have Santiago Garcin,
Alyssa and that weekend we havee
text Main X with Flacco Jimenez,
Eva Ivara and Bonnie Mauricio.
Some of the other ones are Los
Garcia Brothers on Saturday.
And then Friday night it's Ruben De La
Cruz and Ricky Naranco Ilos Gamblers.
And that's just some. Next song.
Oh, we have over 30 bands, so
over 30 bands. It's going to be a fun
time. Of course it is the
Tejono Conjunto Festival.
So over at Rosedale Park,
it's going to be Friday at 6:00,
o'clock to 11:45 and Saturday at
noon and Sunday. We've also get.
They've also got the performance as well.
For more information,
call the number and go to the site there.
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