Tuesday, February 24, 2009

More San Antonio Festival Pictures




There are many kinds of mariachis in this world. Some are very young, some quite elderly, and most somewhere in the middle. Some keep their sombreros on while performing, while others take them off with a flourish before beginning their first number. Besides Mexico and the United States, mariachi ensembles can also be found throughout the Americas and in places as far away as Serbia and Japan.
While we often think of mariachis as being only men, women have been increasingly involved in all aspects of mariachi over the last several decades. Some bands feature female vocalists, and there are some all-woman bands such as Mariachi Rosas Divinas of Dallas.
One of the talented young performers I met at the December 2008 San Antonio Mariachi Festival was the singer Victoria Acosta, who was kind enough to appear in the pictures above. She also appears in other pictures I will be posting from the event. In addition to her own performances, she worked with children onstage during a mariachi trivia quiz, for which the prizes were copies of The Best Mariachi in the World/El Mejor Mariachi del Mundo.





2 comments:

Sue Guiney said...

Okay now. I think it's time for you to stop wearing grey and black....:-) PS My word verification for this is "fanticcu". How fanticcu is that?

J.D. Smith said...

Well, Sue, as an artist/intellectual I am by law obligated to wear black from time to time, but I'll try to mix things up a little bit.

"Fanticcu" sounds like a wonderful Sardinian entree from the pages of Saveur. Or a toy dog breed.