Nicolás Valdez screening of "Conjunto Blues" with music by The Conjunto Blues Band & Rambo
Schedule
Thu Jun 24 2021 at 06:30 pm to 11:59 pm
Location
1514 W Commerce St, San Antonio, TX 78207-3543, United States | San Antonio, TX
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Conjunto Blues, written and performed by Nicolás R Valdez, is a stage play that was recently adapted for the screen in November of 2020 in collaboration with Teatro Vivo and The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. The show explores the social and historical conditions that led to the development of Conjunto music as an expression of cultural resistance and liberation. This one-person performance centers around playwright, actor, and musician Nicolás Valdez’s personal experience growing up in the Conjunto music scene and is loosely based on the relationship with his grandfather, himself a Conjunto music aficionado. Audiences are taken through a shifting landscape of memory and reflection that is highlighted throughout with traditional music performed live by Valdez and accompanied by musicians Luis Gonzalez on Bajo Sexto (12 string Mexican guitar), Sarah Rocha on Tololoche (upright bass), and Joaquin Abrego on Batería (drums). Filled with a cast of colorfully poignant characters, Conjunto Blues is a deeply personal performance for audiences of all ages and backgrounds that is sure to entertain and educate.
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