Happy Birthday Vallarta!
The city council of Puerto Vallarta, through the Department of Culture, is preparing a special concert for this coming May 31st to celebrate two anniversaries; Puerto Vallarta’s, 89th as a municipality and 39th as a city. On this occasion; violins, vihuelas, guitars, guitarróns and trumpets will liven things up downtown at Los Arcos del Malecon with their music, when three of the best-known interpreters of the Mexican music appear together for on big public celebration. They are: the Mariachi Nuevo Tecalitlán, Mariachi Los Toritos and Mariachi Navidad of Mascota.
The concert, is scheduled to begin around 9:00pm on Thursday May 31st, and is expected to last three hours with the sole purpose of help Vallartans and tourists alike to take part in this grand fiesta.There, amid one of Puerto Vallarta’s most famous landmarks, the three bands, each with a long and successful career as ambassadors of Mexico’s music both within and beyond the borders of the country, will do what they do best as they help us celebrated these two important anniversaries of the Vallarta.
One should mention here that the band, Nuevo Tecalitlán, was founded in the year 1965 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, being its founders Señor Pepe Martínez Barajas and his brother Fernando Martínez Barajas who brought together a group of major Mariachi musicians; who, thanks to their individual abilities, and under the musical direction of Pepe Martínez, quickly took their place as public favorites, becoming one of the best Mariachi bands in Mexico. It was in the year 2000 when this band reached their current status as more and more major achievements and recognition came their way. That was the year they took part in the “International Encounter of Mariachi and Charreria” that took place in the city of Guadalajara, being music teachers for the many Mexican and foreign mariachi bands that were taking part in this event as well as varies other similar activities.
The New Mariachi of Tecalitlán is currently made up of thirteen musicians: six violins, two trumpets, a vihuela, a guitarrón, two guitars and harp.
For their part the band, Mariachi Los Toritos heightens the celebration of Vallarta with their presentation with their celebrated discography. Los Toritos have to their name, the Mara de Oro Trophy from Venezuela; something they are quite proud along with their numerous international tours, as well as being named as one of the best mariachi bands in the world.
The group Mariachi Navidad has 35 years of music behind them along with four albums featuring 20 hits, Volume 3: “Te parto el alma” (I leave you my soul), promoting our music: waltz, polkas and marches, and our fiestas with the Mariachi Navidad. Also among the current group of band members are two of the founders; Daniel Rubio López, on trumpet, and Domingo López Macedo, playing the guitarrón.
At the end of the concert, according to tradition, will be a fireworks extravaganza, to top off one of the most important events in the Puerto Vallarta’s entire May, 07 anniversary.
