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Regional Mexican in New York City

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Regional Mexican in New York City is mostly in arenas, performing arts centers, and Sunday nights at La Boom.

The term “Regional Mexican” is an umbrella for the many sounds of Mexico, a big diverse country with many regional sounds.

Regional Mexican is becoming urban music:

  • Banda (brass bands)
  • Corridos (gangster ballads)
  • Cumbia (from Colombia in the 1940s)
  • Grupera (country rock)
  • Mariachi / Ranchera / Son Jalisciense
  • Norteño (accordion)
  • Tejano (electric pop like Selena)

Mexico has many traditional sons (sounds):

  • Son Huasteco from Veracruz and San Luis Potosí
  • Son Jalisciense from Guadalajara, Jalisco is the root of mariachi/ranchera
  • Son Jarocho from Veracruz is the oldest son Mexicano

Editor Keith: I’m a New Yorker from Los Angeles and to me, Regional Mexican is the sound of home.

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Kupferberg Center for the Arts is the Performing Arts Center at Queens College

Marko “El Poder de un chisme” Venezuelan comedy 🇻🇪
Cinco de Mayo: Mariachi Real de México with José Adán Pérez, Tlen Huicani from Veracruz, Ballet Folklórico Mexicano de Nueva York, Mexican mariachi, son jarocho, ballet folklórico 🇲🇽
Grupo Niche Colombian salsa 🇨🇴
Greeicy Rendón Colombian pop 🇨🇴

FLUSHING, Queens

Carnegie Hall is One of the World’s Great Concert Halls

Antonio Sánchez jazz 🇲🇽 🇮🇹
Caña Dulce y Caña Brava women’s Mexican son jarocho 🇲🇽
Tania León curates David Virelles Nosotros Ensemble with Dafnis Prieto Cuban jazz and new music 🇨🇺 🇨🇺 🇨🇺
Juneteenth Celebration 🇺🇸
Dudamel National Children’s Symphony of Venezuela 🇻🇪

MIDTOWN, Manhattan and CITYWIDE

UBS Arena is Long Island’s Arena

Mega Bash MX: Banda MS, Luis R. Conriquez, Grupo Marca Registrada, Majo Aguilar, Tony Aguirre, Regional Mexican 🇲🇽
Jennifer Lopez “This is Me…Now The Tour“ Puerto Rican pop 🇵🇷
Don Omar “Back to Reggaeton Tour” 🇵🇷

BELMONT PARK, Elmont, Long Island

Barclays Center is Brooklyn’s Arena

Bad Bunny Puerto Rican reggaeton pop 🇵🇷
Nicki Minaj “Pink Friday 2 World Tour” Trinidadian hip hop 🇹🇹
Luis Miguel Mexican pop 🇲🇽
New York Salsa Festival: Grupo Niche 🇨🇴
Grupo Niche Colombian salsa 🇨🇴
Chayanne “Bailemos Otra Vez Tour” Puerto Rican pop 🇵🇷
Shakira “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour” Colombian pop 🇨🇴

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn

Madison Square Garden is Manhattan’s Arena

Davido “Timeless Tour” Nigerian afrobeats 🇳🇬
Aventura with Romeo Santos “Cerrando Ciclos Tour” Dominican bachata 🇩🇴
Melanie Martinez “The Trilogy Tour” Dominican Puerto Rican pop rock 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Feid “Ferxxocalipsis Tour” Colombian reggaeton 🇨🇴
Los Temerarios “Hasta Siempre Tour” Regional Mexican grupera 🇲🇽
Sebastian Maniscalco “It Ain’t Right Tour” Italian American comedy 🇮🇹

CHELSEA, Manhattan

Brooklyn Bowl Hosts Rock and Salsa Concerts

Lulada Club, Cali Colombian-led all-women salsa orchestra, Brass Queens New Orleans brass, DJ Sunny Cheeba 🇨🇴 🇺🇸 🇵🇷
Forever Selena Mexican tejano dance party 🇲🇽

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN

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About Regional Mexican

Mexico is a big, diverse country. “Regional Mexican” is an umbrella term for the various forms of Mexican music including:

  • Banda (brass bands with German polka influences)
  • Mariachi/ranchera
  • Norteño (Los Tigres del Norte)
  • Tejano (Selena)

Banda, norteño and tejano have German and Czech polka and waltz influences from when Texas was Tejas, a northern state of Mexico.

Cumbia isn’t generally considered Regional Mexican, but Mexico has a cumbia tradition since Colombian Luis Carlos Meyer Castandet moved to Mexico and worked with Rafael de Paz the 1940s.

Regional Mexican Artists

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