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Pachanga Fest lineup released
The lineup for the third annual Pachanga Latino Music Festival at Fiesta Gardens was released today, and it offers an impressive array of diverse artists that should have no problem making the fest every bit as snappy and dance-worthy as it was in 2009. Local Latino music stalwarts like Grupo Fantasma, Brownout and David Garza will put in appearances, of course, but you can also expect several more rock-influenced acts, including San Antonio rockers Girl in a Coma, Pinata Protest and Hacienda, as well as Austin’s own Amplified Heat. There’s also a nice smattering of national and international artists, including Bogota, Colombia’s Bomba Estereo, New York’s Pacha Massive and Los Angeles’s Pilar Diaz.
In fact, it’s a lineup so bursting at the seams that Pachanga will expand for the first time to Friday night, kick off at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, May 21 and running all-day Saturday, May 22.
“There’s just so much music that it was hard to cram it into one day,” said organizer Rich Garza. “The pool of bands was so big, and since it made logistical sense — we’re already there, we’re already set up — it was kind of a no-brainer to expand. And we’re starting small with Friday night, so it’s not like we’re going to lose our shirts or anything.”
Friday night will feature a single stage, while Saturday’s festivities will, as with last year, take place across three stages. Kids festival Nino’s Rock Pachanga will return, featuring performances by David Garza, Alejandro Vallejo and others, crafts and a photo booth by Annie Ray.
Garza pinpointed last year’s successful festival — the first in Fiesta Gardens — as a turning point for the event. The positive reaction to its broad sampling of Latino artists encouraged him and fellow organizer Alex Vallejo to continue to expand Pachanga’s offerings this year, from the Grammy winning Tejano of the Tortilla Factory to Tucson, Arizona’s Y La Orkestra, which Garza described as “kind of like a bizarro Grupo Fantasma.”
“The first year was very alternative centric and left of the dial, by the standards of the Latin world, which is the space Alex and I live in. And what we figured out was that a lot of that stuff was just so out there that we were neglecting a large part of the community,” said Garza. “So we built in the mariachis and the tejano, and that really resonated and opened things up and made the festival more interesting. We wanted to mirror the Latino experience in Texas and the country. About the only thing Latino people have in common is the Catholic church, Spanish surnames and sometimes the language, so we wanted to demonstrate that.”
Tickets are available now for $15 ($20 after April 20) with Friday and Saturday VIP tickets available for $60 ($75 after April 20). A portion of all proceeds will benefit the FuturoFund Austin. Children under 12 are free when accompanied by a ticketed adult. Check out the full lineup after the jump.
The full line-up includes:
Bobby Pulido (Edinburg, Texas)
Grupo Fantasma w/ Larry Harlow (Austin, TX/New York, N.Y.)
Bomba Estereo (Bogota, Colombia)
Pacha Massive (New York, N.Y.)
Tortilla Factory (Austin)
David Garza (Austin)
Vallejo (Austin)
Girl in a Coma (San Antonio)
Hacienda (San Antonio)
Brownout (Austin)
Y La Orkestra (Tucson, Ariz.)
Pilar Diaz (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Bombasta (San Antonio)
Amplified Heat (Austin)
Carla Morrison (Tecate, Mexico)
Los Bandidos (Austin,)
DJ Dus (Corpus Christi)
Pinata Protest (San Antonio)
Mariachi Las Altenas (San Antonio)
Wille Alvarado (San Angelo)
Brian Lopez (Tucson, Ariz.)
Making Movies (Kansas City, Mo.)
Vitera (Austin)
24-7 (Victoria)
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By Ernest Luna
April 7, 2010 1:52 PM | Link to this
this lineup is sick!
By Austin77
April 7, 2010 2:08 PM | Link to this
This is an unbelievable lineup. Wow.
By El Concilio
April 7, 2010 5:12 PM | Link to this
We the Home Owners of East Town lake Citizens Neighborhood association adjacent to Fiesta Gardens hereby announce a BOYCOTT of PACHANGA FEST @ Fiesta Gardens. Our Neighborhood can not accomodate 4,000-5,000 vehicles in our neighborhood. We respectfully asked Rich Garza, not to hold this event in our Barrio because of its size. We are going bacl to the Aqua festival dates when our neighborhood was flooded with traffic, festivals attendees parking in front of our driveways, person urineting in our front yards, This Festival is suited for audtitorium shores, not a neighborhood. Another reason is that PACAHNGA will recieve over $45,000 from the “Holly Power Plant Mitigation fund” funds that where intended for Home owners to repair their home for the damage they recieved while the power plant operated for over 30 years years polluting our Barrio. Austin, Texas please join us in BOYCOTTING PACHANGA FEST.
East Town lake Citizens Neigborhood Association
By El Concilio
April 7, 2010 5:21 PM | Link to this
BOYCOTT PACHANGA FEST EAST TOWN LAKE CITIZENS NEIGHBORHOO ASSOCIATION