San Blas

The other day we had a gig and I was feeling under the weather.  Actually all that week I had a lot of congestion and cough, I was worried that I would not be able to sing for the gig we had.  That would have been bad, because I am the only other guy in [...]

New head of the Texas Rangers

Tony Leal is the first Hispanic to lead los rinches de tejas.   Isn’t it ironic?

Spam emails

Here is a hilarious commentary from Carlos Guerra at the Express-News here in San Antonio…
Web Posted: 12/09/2008 12:00 CST
Alert: Spare me e-mail alerts about the end of the world
Don’t buy into everything you read, especially on the Internet.
More than a decade ago, I started adding an e-mail address at the end of my column for [...]

Only in San Anto

I happened to be downtown today near our Cathedral on a beautiful Saturday night.  The city recently renovated the main plaza downtown so I was enjoying the new addition to our downtown when I heard music coming from a small tent near the edge of the plaza.  I immediately heard an accordion so I walked [...]

Manuel Peña interview

Click here to see this interesting interview from the #1 expert on Conjunto music Dr. Manuel Peña.

Lucha Libre

The other day my 5 year old asked me if he could watch WWE Monday Night Raw. He is a big time wrestling fanatic (especially of John Cena). It is funny because I don’t let him watch wrestling on TV, but it just took one night when we had friends over and their little boys [...]

Sun block

Recently we played at a festival here in San Antonio.  I knew things were going to be bad when I saw that the stage was facing the sun.  Sure enough as soon as we started we began losing the shade we had on stage.  I was ready to call it quits because I was worried that [...]

Flaco Jimenez

We recently played at the Market Square here in San Antonio and had the pleasure of talking with conjunto music legend Flaco Jimenez.  It was nice to talk with him.  What was cool is when my compadre Juan started asking him questions about his early recordings, and they started singing some of those old songs [...]

The Conjunto Network

I need to thank my compadre Jesús Ramirez for introducing me to ning.com.  Since we launched the “Conjunto is Life” social network it has taken off!  Thanks to all the participants!  Also, I need to apologize to Javier Galvan of Fama.  I banned him from the network.  Actually there was some technical glitch that caused me [...]

Hurricane Ike

Just wanted to remind everyone to pray for all the victims of this hurricane.  I have family in Houston.  There are also a few friends that are in different conjuntos from Houston.  Hope all are safe.