Showing posts with label Cervantino Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cervantino Festival. Show all posts

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Cervantino Day 15: Tony Allen's press conference




The articulate drummer, a Nigerian who now lives in the US filled the Alhondiga, charmed charmed the journalists at his press conference. At the age of seventeen, he started dedicating his life to the drums hasn't looked back.

I have to admit his concert, a group effort, was too noisy for me. Maybe I would have done better with a CD but he said he doesn't bring them to his concerts, likes to concentrate on what he does best, drumming. You can go to Amazon to read about his memoir, titled unsurprisingly Tony Allen.

casual but fashionable in his chartreuse tennies

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Cervantino Festival 2012 overview Tuesday, May 8

Note that the event, usually at the end of May has been moved up "because of the Mexican elections."
Place: Teatro Juarez at 6:45 but get there early as there is always a bumper crowd.

The invited countries this year are Austria, Switzerland and Poland, with Sinaloa (think Mazatlan) the invited Mexican state.

Festival dates: October 3 - 21. To know more, keep checking www.festivalcervantino.gob.mex.