Arts & Entertainment

Thousands of Tapatios and visitors lined Guadalajara’s principal avenues for last Sunday’s International Mariachi Festival opening parade. Groups of musicians, dancers and charros of all ages came from far and wide to participate in the fiesta.

A young boy elegantly dressed charms the large crowd.

The emotional mariachi galas at the Degollado Theater kicked off with a special concert featuring Mexico’s most acclaimed tenor, the great Ramon Vargas.

Arts and crafts, including sombrero painting, went on in the festival’s pavilion set up in the city center.

More male and female mariachis playing during the parade.

Zapopan Centro is the place to be as the International Mariachi Festival draws to a close on Sunday, September 7.

Opera is back with a bang at the Degollado Theater in Guadalajara come November, wedged amid the fall/winter season of the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO).
Three works are scheduled, the highlight undoubtably three performances of “Carmen,” the  four-act masterpiece with music by Georges Bizet and libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella by Prosper Mérimée.

The Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra kicks off its third and final concert series of the year on September 21 with a nostalgic review of some of the finest Mexican classical music.

The United Kingdom is to be the guest of honor at the 2015 Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL).

The Joven Ballet, Jalisco’s only fully professional dance company, go upbeat for their latest show, “Who Cares?”