This is the Antigua Swing Club playing live Jazz music at the Charleston restaurant. Make sure you follow these fellows, they are putting a fantastic swing in the night life of Antigua Guatemala. The live Jazz scene in Antigua Guatemala just keeps on getting better thanks to the many groups and bands playing at the … Read more
Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six, or fewer, social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of “a friend of a friend” statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy in 1929 and popularized … Read more
This week has been phenomenal in Antigua Guatemala, with a pedestrian town for three days, new spotlights at the Compañía de Jesús ruins, the 2nd Flower Festival, and live music every single day. Here’s live marimba performance under the Palacio del Ayuntamiento as part of the Flower Festival. Stay tuned this coming week for photos … Read more
Marimba music could easily be tagged as the sound track of Guatemala. I believe you find marimba music everywhere. Most people like marimba music and some of us can’t stand it. I guess to each its own. How you feel about marimba music?
The cinematic sounds of the Duo Soupstar playing at the antiguo colegio de la Compañía de Jesús in Antigua Guatemala was a total film experience; you imagine this music as soundtrack of many of the art cinema films you have watched. What a way to finish the last concert of the International Jazz Festival of … Read more
The youthful energy coming out of the Big Wy’s Brass Band was contagious and put almost everyone to dance. Jazz fans had a fabulous jamming night thanks the engulfing brass notes plus the bass player and drums. I believe this was biggest audience during the International Jazz Festival of Guatemala in Antigua Guatemala as well. … Read more
As I have said before, I find the singing of the Maya people extremely haunting and touching, even though, they are singing evangelical hymns. To me this singing has an additional layer of pain and denouncing which is above the meaning of the words they sing; something much older and more mystical than the religious … Read more
The Shuffle Demons are a primal, funky, jazz band with three saxophones, a cello and a drum set or batería as we say in Spanish. Last Thursday night, the atrium of the antiguo colegio de la Compañía de Jesús was filled with the electrifying energy coming out from the live performance The Shuffle Demons, hailing … Read more
The 17th International Jazz Festival of Guatemala is in full swing. Here’s the Thierry Lang Trio playing at as part of the Guatemala Jazz Festival in Antigua Guatemala at the atrium of the former college of the Compañía de Jesús on Tuesday night, March 7, 2017. There are two more photographs to show you the … Read more
Last Tuesday the renown quintet QuinTango and Sonidos Para La Vida, an organisation with young musicians, offered a free concert at the atrium of Iglesia La Merced. QuinTango is a classical musical quintet that performs and promotes tango music all over the world. There’s a video below that explains more about them and shows some … Read more
I never get tired of recommending people to enter every shop, restaurant, hotel, building with public access in Antigua Guatemala to find the hidden gems and beauty beyond the doorways. Check this decoration tree, for instance, for the new location for the Korean restaurant Miso. Even though the flowers are fake, the combination of color … Read more
In the mercado municipal of Antigua Guatemala you can find quite a few booths that offer movie selections similar to what you might find through the Red Box Movies, except here you take the discs home and you don’t have to return them. You may argue that this practice is so wrong, but when you … Read more
As I have asked before, how can two simple musical instruments playing uncomplicated and repetitive rhythms create a profound, hauntingly, bewitching and fascinating musical experience? How can Guatemalans explain to other people the spiritual fibers that are touched by the fragile and high-pitched notes of the chirimilla flute and the heartbeat thumps emanating from the … Read more
If you like swing, blues, cumbia or all the above, you are in luck because tonight between 8:30pm – 11pm you can listen to live music of Ishto Juevez, Maf & Tula and Juanka Hidalgo at their recital in Kafka on 3rd calle oriente. This is not the first time we focus on Ishto Juevez … Read more
First of all, I want to wish a Happy Guatemalan Mother’s Day to all the moms in my family and the world, and especially so to my very own dear mother. I love you mom! This afternoon, my motherland was given the best gift ever; a taste of justice, and not just any justice, but … Read more