Mazunte Jazz Festival (Nov. 16-18) features Lila Downs Posted by Farkem

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Farkem Mazunte Jazz Festival (Nov. 16-18) features Lila Downs  November 09, 2012 11:31AM

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alan vlautin Re: Mazunte Jazz Festival (Nov. 16-18) features Lila Downs  November 09, 2012 02:20PM

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Try not to miss Lila Downs, she has costa chica roots, we saw her several years ago in the plaza at Puerto and later at a summer festival in Quebec and can only imagine how much her music and presence has grown.

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Farkem Re: Mazunte Jazz Festival (Nov. 16-18) features Lila Downs  November 09, 2012 02:31PM

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Ten or 12 years ago, Lila was a frequent visitor to Puerto, and performed here often.

One year, I was disappointed to learn that she was scheduled to perform in Puerto on Nov. 18, as part of the Fiestas de Noviembre, when I was departing Puerto on Nov. 12, and was therefore unable to catch her performance here.

However, two weeks after I arrived in NYC, Lila Downs performed there in a new cabaret theatre, and I caught both shows. She truly is an international musical star of the first order.



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Palomas Re: Mazunte Jazz Festival (Nov. 16-18) features Lila Downs  November 10, 2012 10:14PM

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I've heard conflicting dates for Lila's performance. Any concrete update, Farkem?

Sheila

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Pedro Re: Mazunte Jazz Festival (Nov. 16-18) features Lila Downs  November 10, 2012 10:33PM

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The band Sonex is scheduled to perform.
They are terrific. Here is a link to their music with several videos;

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Farkem Re: Mazunte Jazz Festival (Nov. 16-18) features Lila Downs  November 11, 2012 06:58AM

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Sheila:

We first heard Saturday, Nov. 17, but now believe it's Sunday, Nov. 18. We are in touch with her management office, and will post here once we're sure which day..

CONFIRMED: Lila Downs performs at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 18, the second artist of that evening's performances.



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Mina Re: Mazunte Jazz Festival (Nov. 16-18) features Lila Downs  November 12, 2012 08:10AM

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Ok, Nov 18, at 8PM, but where specifically? The first link comes up jibberish on my screen. Thanks

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Farkem Re: Mazunte Jazz Festival (Nov. 16-18) features Lila Downs  November 12, 2012 08:16AM

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The music venue in Mazunte traditionally is right on the beach, but at the moment is up-in-the-air, according to the last info I have.

This is because this year's storms have severely eroded the beach, and this concert may have to be moved, perhaps to the soccer field. I'm sure we will be directed to the concert when we arrive.

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Mina Re: Mazunte Jazz Festival (Nov. 16-18) features Lila Downs  November 12, 2012 08:20AM

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Thanks for the update.

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Farkem Re: Mazunte Jazz Festival (Nov. 16-18) features Lila Downs  November 15, 2012 08:29AM

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Forgot to mention -- this is a free concert, but you pay $100p for a table.

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Farkem Re: Mazunte Jazz Festival (Nov. 16-18) features Lila Downs  November 16, 2012 09:04AM

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Update from Thursday:

It appears the concert is still planned for the beach in Mazunte ... and the available tables are the short-legged Oriental style, which means you sit in the sand.

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Farkem Re: Mazunte Jazz Festival (Nov. 16-18) features Lila Downs  November 16, 2012 01:04PM

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Another reason to see this show: Lila Downs has just won a Grammy award for "best folkloric" album of the year.

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Farkem Re: Mazunte Jazz Festival (Nov. 16-18) features Lila Downs  November 17, 2012 09:45AM

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Here's a sneak peek at Lila Downs' performance at the Latin Grammys:

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Back to the Atlantic

This weeks travels!

We drove just north of Acapulco City and found the Acapulco Trailer Park. We were one of only 2 campers (one permanent) and got to set up close to the beach. The waves were beautiful, huge and loud and definitely not swim-able. Sadly the pool was being painted as well – oh well.

Our main mission in Acapulco was to see the famous cliff divers! Acapulco was the original tourist resort place in Mexico and had all kinds of famous people coming as long ago as the 50′s. However this boom really only lasted until the 70′s due to overdevelopment and oh yes raw sewage polluting their beaches. This is all since cleaned up, and they’re trying to get back the tourists. The biggest attraction, since 1934, are the guys that dive off the La Quebrada cliffs. Probably about 15 divers walk down the steps through the crowds on the viewing areas and dive into the water below. They then climb 25-35m on the rock face opposite this little inlet of water. They bless themselves on the little shrine on top and then take the tumble into the water. Really amazing to see especially with the tiny and shallow body of water they have to jump into with all the waves and variables. Of course just as we were to take lots of pictures we realised that something had happened to our SD card a nd our camera was not able to work – grrrrr. You’ll have to settle for an Internet pic instead!

Cliff divers of Acapulco

The next day, November 9th, we got on the road a bit late as we had to buy our new SD card. We continued south along the coast to Puerto Escondido, a big surfing and party town. Unfortunately we got into town after dark and the 3 campgrounds we had mapped out were either awful, closed or not able to accommodate us. It was a hoppin’ Friday night on the waterfront so we parked and went to find some dinner. We wandered the streets and checked things out, including a loud beach concert. We then parked Ginger in front of a hotel in a well lit area on a quieter area of the main street and went to sleep. Our first, non Walmart, boondock!

On Saturday we spoiled ourselves with pancakes and coffee in a nice cafe, and then watched some of the surfing competition going on. Puerto Escondido was definitely a young surfers hangout.

A surfer catches a wave (and a very hungover boy on the beach, still sleeping off the night before)

Another competition surfer

The main boulevard in Puerto Escondido

We drove a couple of hours further south to Zipolite Beach. Here we found a beautiful RV campground, Ranchos Los Mangos, that was set inside a walled mango orchard and had great clean amenities, plus a pool! We immediately signed up for 2 nights! We also arranged for a much needed spa treatment for Ginger. Well, a guy with a bucket and a rag anyway…

Ginger looking all shiney and new

The beach was lovely although still quite rough and tumble. It is known in Mexico as the only real nude beach even though nudity in Mexico is illegal. Dave was looking forward to seeing the sights! Hee hee, just kidding. There were actually only a couple of nudies and they were secluded at the end of the beach. The whole little town has a hippie seventies kind of feel.

The beach at Zipolite

We found this friendly guy about 3m from the van

What Christine got after ordering a mixed fruit smoothie… something got lost in translation…

In the next town over there was a turtle sanctuary with quite a large live turtle display. We saw lots of big sea turtles and baby turtles, but of course someone (not naming anyone in particular!) forgot the camera so we had to use our iPhone. Not great pics but here are the best.

We sadly left the Pacific Ocean and now started to head overland towards the Atlantic. The last time we did this crossing it took three weeks from Halifax to Vancouver. Down here you can do it in about 8hrs of driving. We overnighted at the Hogar Infantile which was pretty much midway. It’s an orphanage that also has a few RV spots set up. No money is accepted but you can donate through their website, which we promptly did. There was a french family also camping there in a Winnebago with their 5 kids, ages 2-13! They are traveling for a couple of years and also hope to reach Argentina as an end point. Amazing or crazy, we’re not sure!

We made it to the Gulf of Mexico the next day! We had scouted out on the internet a good campground in Isla Aguada. Unfortunately another long driving day made us arrive after dark and we weren’t overly impressed with the place. We were the only RV’ers there and the beach was only ok. In the morning we checked out the waterfront and then got back on the road.

Exploring around Isla Aguada

A couple of hours driving and we arrived at our first Mayan ruins – Uxmal [oosh-mal]! Our plan was to camp in their little camping area right at the gate of the ruins so we could see it by day and night. We got our hiking boots on and explored.

The pyramid at Uxmal

Exploring Uxmal

We came back to the van for dinner and then went back for the sound and light show. It was very impressive and all, but due to our idiotic inability to understand spanish we only stayed for half the show.

The light show at Uxmal

On Thursday we had another real short drive into the city of Merida, which is supposed to be the cultural capital of the Yucatan Peninsula. We wanted to stay close to the Grande Plaza in the centre so we got a hotel room.

The main plaza in Merida

Our main criteria for picking a place was that it had to have nice secure parking so we wouldn’t have to worry about the van. We spent the afternoon and evening exploring the city square and the markets and had some good food. But we both agree we’re not the best at being tourists in cities and decided that one night in town was enough, so headed on to the next Mayan sight of Chicken Schnitzel today.

The crowds at Chichen Itza (and the main temple)

This was a very impressive city ruin, but unfortunately within easy driving distance of Cancun, which meant it was jam packed with international tourists. This was quite novel for us, after having traveled the last few weeks with very few other tourists. It was good reminder for us that we don’t like other people – only joking!

The ball court at Chichen Itza – see the hoops on the walls!

Dave exploring

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The Observatory

This week we have also passed 20,000km driven since leaving Halifax (20,805km actually) – not bad for 108 days on the road.

We are now camped in front of a hotel near the ruins, and plan to be back on the beach by lunch time tomorrow. The Atlantic this time! Oh, that’s after we pick up some hammocks on the way.

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