It’s December again. Specifically it’s my birthday. And that means it’s Merry-Achi time. Almost every year for the last thirty years or more the mariachi bands have come. Sol de Mexico with Jose Hernandez, and Mariachi Reyna De Los Angeles, the first ever all female mariachi band.
I think when I retire, it will be safe to say that this will be the act with which I have worked longer and more days in my career.
I’ll leave you now with a short video which I shot backstage as the mariachi bands played in the green room together after they arrived and before soundcheck. And some photos from tonight and the past.
Above mariachi bands Sol de Mexico and Mariachi Reyna De Los Angeles rehearse backstage.
And below,
And a memory from the past. One night working the MerryAchi Christmas show I had to clear some mics and cable for the dancers, but they went on too fast! I call this video The Mariachi Stomp.
That guy getting stomped on by the dancers would be me. I had to run out and clear a cable and mic stand! Don’t get in their way!
Photos and video from past shows below.
