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Hotel Mariachi: Urban Space and Cultural Heritage in Los Angeles (FREE!)
September 18, 2014 @ 12:00 am
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Mariachi 5:00 p.m.
Lecture 5:30 p.m.
Presidio Chapel, El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park
123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara
For more information: 805-965-0093 or www.sbthp.org
Join the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation as Catherine Kurland and Evangeline Ordaz-Molina discuss Hotel Mariachi, their book which depicts the mariachi musicians of Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, and the eighty-year-old mariachi culture centered in the 1889 hotel on Mariachi Plaza. It is a story of valiant efforts by the community to preserve the cultural heritage of the mariachis and the historic hotel, built by great-grandparents of author Catherine Kurland, who traces her Latino family history back to the birth of Los Angeles. Documentary art photographer Miguel Gandert “joyously and heartbreakingly captures this dichotomy of a regal band at play and the harsh reality of the struggle for work.” Enrique Lamadrid offers an in-depth study of mariachi music, the lives of the musicians, and the role of southern California in the evolution of this musical form.
Enjoy a special guest appearance by Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar
co-presented with ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara!
Added by: AJ 9/10/2014