Ventura Music Festival Is Hosting A Free Jarabe Mexicano Concert In The Park 7/18

The Ventura Music Festival is just around the corner! This year they have awesome news to all Ventura County residents. For the first time, the festival is providing a free for the community, full-production mainstage concert alongside the year’s stellar lineup: an evening with the one and only Jarabe Mexicano in the San Buenaventura Mission Park. 

JARABE MEXICANO has ties on both sides of the border. Founded in San Diego in 2015, this electrifying quintet combines stunning vocals, traditional mariachi instruments and percussion with a Spanish and English songbook that includes cumbias, sones, boleros, huapangos, reggae, DooWop and other American classics. Its Mexican-American members are bi-lingual, with extensive backgrounds in music education, and offer residencies, workshops and advanced Skype sessions for students and teachers. Jarabe means many things: syrup (as in liquid medicine) in Spanish; celebration in Arabic; a traditional couples dance; and mix of rhythms and instruments.

When: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 5:00 PM
Where: San Buenaventura Mission Park  ( Opposite 211 East Main Street, Ventura, CA)
 

Ventura Music Festival 2018

The Ventura Music Festival 2018 musical lineup consists of:
 

• 7/12: American Gypsy Jazz featuring star guitarist John Jorgenson at the historic Olivas Adobe
• 7/13: Latin Grammy-winner and “fire breathing guitar hero” vocalist and composer Diego Garcia (“El Twanguero”) alongside his trio at the Ventura College Performing Arts Center
• 7/14: “Rollicking, multi-lingual, around-the-world musical adventure” and festival headliner Pink Martini at the Oxnard PACC
• 7/15: Dynamic classic music ensemble Trio Céleste at the Ventura College Performing Arts Center
• 7/20: Celebrated and imaginative Akropolis Reed Quintet at the Ventura College Performing Arts Center
• 7/21: Stunning singer-songwriter Perla Batalla will present her “Frida Kahlo song cycle”, inspired by the works of Kahlo and Diego Rivera  at the Ventura College Performing Arts Center
• 7/22: Pas de deux series depicting the ups, downs and sideways of relationships – Malashock Dance at the Ventura College Performing Arts Center