Two months ago, Catalina García took her mother to Disney World for the first time. “It was her dream,” García says. “It was a very special trip.”
In more ways than one. García is the lead singer of the Colombian band Monsieur Periné, and as she was going back to Miami with her mother after visiting the Magic Kingdom, fans started to message her on Instagram. “Hey, did you notice that your song is viral on TikTok?” García was confused, since Monsieur Periné hadn’t put out any music recently.
In more ways than one. García is the lead singer of the Colombian band Monsieur Periné, and as she was going back to Miami with her mother after visiting the Magic Kingdom, fans started to message her on Instagram. “Hey, did you notice that your song is viral on TikTok?” García was confused, since Monsieur Periné hadn’t put out any music recently.
- 12/9/2021
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
In 2008, inspired by the son jarocho music from Veracruz, Mexico, Jorge Castillo, a retired librarian living in Chula Vista, Calif., organized a concert on the Mexico-American border between San Diego and Tijuana.
This gathering of musicians, a cross-border jam session known as the Fandango Fronterizo Festival, has been going strong ever since. Taking place annually on or around Memorial Day, hundreds of people on both sides of the border wall eat, sing and partake in the fandango festivities, the regional folk music strummed on jarana jarocha guitars a joyous celebration of Mexico and its myriad cultures and people.
“We call the fandangos the ride of peace, the route of peace, because every time we come together we are always in friendship, we are always celebrating,” says Castillo, who was born in El Paso, Texas, and raised in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. “Musically, it brings people together at the border. Even the...
This gathering of musicians, a cross-border jam session known as the Fandango Fronterizo Festival, has been going strong ever since. Taking place annually on or around Memorial Day, hundreds of people on both sides of the border wall eat, sing and partake in the fandango festivities, the regional folk music strummed on jarana jarocha guitars a joyous celebration of Mexico and its myriad cultures and people.
“We call the fandangos the ride of peace, the route of peace, because every time we come together we are always in friendship, we are always celebrating,” says Castillo, who was born in El Paso, Texas, and raised in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. “Musically, it brings people together at the border. Even the...
- 5/15/2019
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
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