The popular Tejano Legends concert series returns for the sixth installment on March 13, but at a new location — the Coliseum.
Little Joe y La Familia will headline a bill also featuring Raulito Navaria (Emilio's brother) and El Paso's Chuy Flores and Rhapsody.
Fans of the series are aware that the first four concerts, all sellouts, were held at the Plaza Theatre, which seats 2,000 people.
Promoter Ramiro "Ram" Guzman moved the series to the more spacious Coliseum on New Year's Eve, noting that fans wanted to have a dance floor instead of trying to wiggle their behinds in the relatively tight confines of the Plaza's permanent seating.
"We have had a lot of request(s) for dancing to this very lively music and we are trying to satisfy our patron request," Guzman said in a release announcing the next show.
He used a theater-like configuration for the New Year's Eve show, which limited seating but also allowed for the introduction of table seating, a potentially more profitable move.
"We had few problems but have addressed them and now (are) ready for a bigger show," he stated in the release. "While the coliseum is (a) big arena, we do not use all of it for this type of show."
Tickets are $20 and up, with tables that seat six people, going for $300. They go on sale Jan. 22 at Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and 800.745.3000.
No show time has been announced.
A portion of the proceeds will go to Sin Fronteras Organizing Projects, which works with farm workers along the border.
• Speaking of big spaces, check out who's coming to this year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival -- Jay-Z, Muse, Gorillaz and Thom Yorke, rare appearances by Public Image Ltd., Pavement, Faith No More and Sly and the Family Stone, and buzz bands such as The xx, Florence and the Machine and Passion Pit.
It's April 16-18 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Jan. 22. A $200 daily ticket includes a tent, two sleeping bags, blankets and pillows. A three-day pass is $269. They'll be available at all Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and coachella.com.
• Of Verona, Mandi Perkins' band, will play the Garage Tequila Bar, 4025 N. Mesa, at 9 p.m. Jan. 30. It's a 21-and-older show. There's no cover. It's being presented by EP's Two Ton Live.
• The Percolator, 217 N. Stanton, is hosting a Singer Songwriter Showcase at 8 p.m. Jan. 22. It will feature an impressive lineup of seriously talented local artists — Lusitania's Mike Duncan, the Royalty's Nicole Smith, Highway 28's Neno Cooper, Sleepercar's Clint Myers, Westbound Outlaw's Marco G. and Alabama Deathwalk's Eric Reed.
It's an all-ages show. Cover is $4.
• An organizational meeting for the second annual Chamizal Blues & Jazz Festival will be from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Jan. 27 at Ruli's International Kitchen.
Also on the agenda: "the possible reintroduction of the Border Folk Festival," according to Jim Murphy, president of Los Paisanos de El Chamizal, the Chamizal National Monument's nonprofit support group, which staged the first blues and jazz festival last year.
Border Folk was an institution around here at one time, bringing together diverse ethnic and folk musics from around the country and Mexico. Would be nice to see it's return. It's time.
Info: Elias Lopez, 603.8999.
• Jimmie Van Zant (yes, there is another Van Zant brother) will play "The Big Game — Super Sunday Party" on Super Bowl Sunday Feb. 7 at the Inn of the Mountain Gods in Mescalero, NM. Tickets for the show and tailgate party are $25 at the door. Go to innofthemountaingods.com for more info.
• Sarah Ioannides passed along a rave review she got from the Chattanooga Times Free Press for her performances last weekend with that city's symphony. She was a last-minute substitution for another guest conductor, Alondra de la Parra, who fell ill.
"Maestro Ioannides was the ruler of her orchestral domain, eliciting the most sensitive playing," reviewer Mel R. Wilholt wrote. "The tight ensemble was the most impressive in a work that easily could become fragmented without a sure hand at the musical helm."
The El Paso Symphony Orchestra's conductor is expecting twins in April or May. She isn't leading the local orchestra's concerts with cellist Zuill Bailey at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22-23 at the Plaza Theatre, a cooperative arrangement with Bailey's El Paso Pro-Musica. Guest conductor Alexander Platt will do that as part of the regular season schedule.
Sarah will be back on the podium for EPSO's "The Planets" multi-media concerts Feb. 26-27 at the Plaza Theatre.
• The Adobe Horseshoe Dinner Theatre in San Elizario will open for performances of A.R. Gurney's "Love Letters," directed by Jan H. Wolfe, on Feb. 13-14, according to Wolfe and San Eli artist and impresario Al Borrego. Mary Jane Windle and Pat Haggerty star. More details when I get 'em.
• The fifth installment of the PechaKucha nights, where artists and creative types meet and show off their latest projects, will be at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19 at Forum Arts + Culture's new home, 1500 Texas (second floor). Organizers are looking for people interested in presenting their work. Go to pechakucha-ep.com.
• El Paso experimental rockers Zechs Marquise will open for RX Bandits and The Builders and the Butchers Feb. 20-March 1 in Australia and March 9-April 23 in North America.
There are no local shows on the itinerary, but the tour opens March 9 in Tempe at the Marquee Theatre, followed by a March 10 show at Tucson's Club Congress, March 12 at the Granada in Dallas, March 13 at the White Rabbit in San Antonio and March 14 at Emo's in Austin.
Check 'em out at myspace.com/zechsmarquise.
• Local folk legends Applejack will play a dinner show at 8 p.m. Feb. 6 at La Tierra Cafe, 1731 Montana (home of some pretty good grub, btw). Cost is $30, which includes the meal. Details: 592.5122.
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