I was in Xico today and didn’t realize it was a fiesta day until this parade came up the street – they do this kind of thing a lot, at least once a month if not more. I grabbed my camera and took three short videos, all worth watching for a taste of “deep Mexico”. [...]
I realize that a lot of my posts lately have been about stuff going on at Charlie’s – the restaurant-bar-live music venue on the avenue in Tulum pueblo – but honestly, Charlie’s is awesome. I’ve seen a few bars in my life, and this one is special. It’s wide-open to the street, full of beautiful, [...]
Bandikoro, a partially-local band of some nine members, threw down a fantastic performance yesterday on the beach at Hotel Playa Azul here in Tulum, slamming out song after song of their gorgeous African-Caribbean-Latin music, pouring out their love and good energy to an enthusiastic crowd of dancing, shouting fans. You can see all of the [...]
Last spring, in between listening to the Buena Vista Social Club album over and over and over, I decided to see if I could find any live Cuban music in my area. Entirely by accident, I stumbled upon something that has heated up my weeknights for months now – Cuban salsa lessons at Paso Dance [...]
Photos and video in this post are Copyright © Patty Ayers 2008 I went to the Latino Festival in Durham, NC today, to hear the music and practice my Spanish. It was hot, but a nice time anyway. I like this photo of the dancers. I used a setting on my camera that I just [...]