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Tejano Conjunto Competition pageant founder Juan Tejeda (left) and Guadalupe Cultural Arts Heart Govt Director Cristina Ballí unveil the occasion’s new poster.
The Tejano Conjunto Competition, the nation’s oldest and largest celebration of South Texas Chicano roots music, on Tuesday unveiled this 12 months’s scheduled performers and the winner of its annual poster contest.
The forty second annual pageant will happen will happen Could 17-19 at Rosedale Park and have three days of concert events together with a seniors’ dance and a hall-of-fame dance and induction ceremony, organizers mentioned throughout an unveiling on the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Heart.
“The Tejano Conjunto Competition at all times showcases the easiest in conjunto music and this 12 months the line-up is heavier than ever,” mentioned Dan Margolies, pageant coordinator and the Guadalupe Heart’s director of strategic initiatives.
On Friday, Could 17, the pageant will get underway with Conjuntazzo with Joel & Sarah, Los D Boys, Gilberto Pérez Jr. y su Conjunto, Los Conjunto Kings de Flavio Longoria, David Flores y Los Tremendos Alacranes and Los Desperadoz.
On Saturday, Could 18, the pageant options scholar conjuntos from Rio Grande Valley, Retoño, J.R. Gómez y Los Conjunto Bandits, Mando y La Venganza, Conjunto Prestigio, Bernardo y sus Compadres, Impozzible, Los Tellez, Los Monarcas de Pete y Mario Díaz, Ruben de la Cruz, Los Cucuys de Rodney Rodriguez and Lázaro Pérez y su Conjunto.
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Anna Arce of San Antonio, a school scholar, designed this 12 months’s successful poster.
The Tejano Conjunto Competition will shut out Sunday, Could 19, with scholar conjuntos from San Antonio adopted by a invoice wealthy with girls performers together with Texas Sweethearts, Linda Escobar, Susan Torres y Conjunto Los Pinkys, Cindy Ramos y su Conjunto, Los Delta Boyz, Santiago Garza y la Naturaleza, Eva Ybarra y su Conjunto Siempre, Los Texmaniacs with Flaco Jimenez and Los Fantasmas del Valle.
Throughout Tuesday’s press occasion, organizers additionally confirmed off the successful designs for the pageant’s official poster, together with its skilled class in addition to its center faculty, highschool and school classes.
San Antonio’s Anna Arce — a scholar at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods School in Saint Mary of the Woods, Indiana — gained the highest class with a portrait of a lady accordionist impressed by the Mexican bingo recreation Loteria. Arce gained a $2,000 prize for her successful submission.
“We once more had such a incredible vary of artists of all ages submitting their heartfelt work to the poster contest this 12 months,” says Cristina Ballí, govt director on the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Heart. “Anna Arce’s artistic successful poster captures the spirit of our forty second annual pageant and our distinctive music!”
Tickets for the Tejano Conjunto Competition, together with a $50 three-day go, go on sale March 15 on the Guadalupe Heart web site.
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