It’s Reboot, Restart Time. We Were Just Getting Ready To Roll On And Keep Rockin’…Looking Back To January 2020 Some More Before Moving Forward Again
Here’s our Summary Report/News Release (English-Spanish available here by Search) After Our January, 2020 Events Before We, Like Everyone Else With Live Events, Were Hit By The Global Pandemic.
It’s March 13, 2020 And We’re Getting Ready For Our Live Event In Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo…And Then Covid Struck Us And Everyone Else And It Turned Out To Be Our Last One
We Announce late 2022 & 2023 Soon. But First We Make Sure We Appreciate All The Great Music And Performances From Our Big Hearted Performers In The Past.
You’ll Love The Special “Bootleg Bonus” Video From Our Tequila Rock ‘n Blues Explosion Stage Right At The Top Below
Here’s The Link: https://tequilabluesrock.com/wpstream_vod/our-best-of-the-best-looking-back-before-announcing-our-move-forward-plans/
Amigos de Animales in Barra Potosi Gets Support From Tequila Blues & Rock Explosion Events & Fests from our January 2020 Events. Plans call for continued future support for Amigos from future Tequila Blues & Rock Explosion Events in Ixtapa-Zihua.
In late March we announced the funding contributions we had made following our Events in Ixtapa-Zihua from January to March, 2020.
We are pleased to report today that Amigos de Animales (amigosdeanimales.org) of Barra Potosi, has received their full contribution pledged from the January 2020 Fest.
We live in uncertain times but our message to Stasya Briggs, the inspirational founder of Amigos de Animales was one of hope for us, and our future events, with continued support for Amigos if possible, as well as for the Animales Angels MX animal rescue project by Natalia Ruiz Gomez, in central Mexico where many of our performers and fans are based.
The Crystal Ship Band from Mexico City returns to Ixtapa to headline our Doors Days, The Door Experience Weekend at Villas Paraiso Hotel and Rock Bar. More Information Here On Facebook Events
A sold-out crowd with excellent reviews from their first visit in February 2018. Two can’t miss shows if you love the music of The Doors: Light My Fire, Touch Me, Love Me Two Times, Love Her Madly, L.A. Woman, Break On Through, Roadhouse Blues and many more. Who doesn’t love their music? People were dancing all night last time they were here. The fundraising continues for our 2020 Causes: Street Animal Rescue by groups like Amigos de Animales of Barra Potosi, and Kids with projects like Birthday Smiles for kids who deserve a “happy” birthday, and Realizing Potentials, for kids with exceptional abilities and talent, but with barriers in their life to realizing their full potential. Support for training, technology and travel and more.
The Tequila Blues & Rock Explosion Events & Fests formula continues. Great Live Music By Full Bands and Performers, Fun-Fun-Fun And Support For Community and Causes always.
Read about the results from our first two weekends Here. Our “Best Fest Ever” and we made a great start on fundraising for our 2020 Causes.
We Wrap Up Our January 10-19, 2020 Tequila Blues & Rock Explosion Festival #3 in Ixtapa-Zihua, Mexico
Read & Download The News Release. We Thank All The Great Performers, Volunteers & Partners. We’d Love To Have Everyone Back Here For Future Fests & Events. We All Truly Did “Come Together” And We Can Still Say With Conviction That We Are The Fest That Love Built! We Announced Our Contributions To Our Causes Thanks To The Contributions And Support Of Our Great Fans, Our Performers, Our Partner Venue and Host Hotel, And The Organizers.
But It’s Not Enough Folks So We Announce New & Great Events For Continued 2020 Fundraising For Our 2020 Causes. Read About The New Events February 28 & 29 in Ixtapa, we are bringing back the most popular, best-attended show we’ve ever put on, The Doors Experience Show, by Mexico City’s The Crystal Ship Band, who want to help us with our fundraising for our Causes. Presenting a show they’ve presented over 100 times in Mexico, Europe, and the Caribbean.
Great guys, you’ll have a great night with a live full-band presenting 2+ hours of The Doors Greatest Hits…and there are so many of them: Light My Fire…their first #1, Touch Me, their second # 1, Love Her Madly, Break On Through, RoadHouse Blues-“Woke Up This Morning And Got Myself A Beer”, L.A. Woman, Gloria, The End, The Crystal Ship and many many more. What’s your favorite Doors song?
For The Great Live Music By World-Class Performers, For Fun-Fun-Fun, For Community And Our Partner Causes. See You On February 28 & 29! See You On Valentine’s Day Weekend. See You In January 2021 For Tequila Blues & Rock Explosion Festival Int. #4
We start Friday night at 7:00 pm. At Villas Paraiso Hotel in Ixtapa. Be in your seats early. The one of a kind Blues Brothers Show comes on soon after. Vicente Contreras, teenage guitar prodigy from Ixtapa, Mexico, just before them on the lineup. Show Tickets or Dinner & A Show & Drinks Tickets Available At Midday At Villas Paraiso Hotel or Online at https://tequilabluesrock.com/festivaltickets/
See You At Villas Paraiso Hotel, Ixtapa, Friday, January 10. Tickets Online here at this site at https://tequilabluesrock.com/festivaltickets/ or see us at Hotel Villas Paraiso from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm January 9 or come by from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm at Soundcheck & Setup time at Villas to view the venue and get your Tickets. Soundcheck free with a donation, or food and drink purchase. Friday Jan.10 hours at Villas Paraiso: 11:00 am-5:00 pm for Advance Tickets. Film Festival starts at 4:00 pm and Live Music starts at 6:50 pm.
Tequila Blues Explosion Events & Fests…𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚’𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑰𝑰𝑰. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑱𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒚 10 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆? 𝑵𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝒑𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐n
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=566014407569165
Who Else Is Saying “I’m Going To Ixtapa-Zihua For The Music and Film Fest…Supporting The Causes…Staying For The Beaches, The Sunsets And The Romance” January 10-19, 2020. The Best 10 Days Of Your Winter!
Your New Live Rock ‘n Blues Event Poster Is Here January 10-12, 2020 in Ixtapa, January 17-19 in Zihuatanejo
Where will you be? Join us…we’ve got Free Hugs, great Live Music and so much more. Rock your Life!
Enjoy the great Stevie Ray Vaughan video linked to in the post.
Tequila Blues & Rock Explosion Events & Fests preparing for Fest #3, January, 2020 in Ixtapa-Zihua, Mexico. Where will you be? We will be a rockin’! For the Causes. For the Live Music Experience. We hope you will join us! Advance Festival Passes For The Best Seating Available Here. Special 3 for 2 Promotion on now until September 1.
Special Promotion On Now For Tequila Blues & Rock Explosion Fest January 2020 in Ixtapa-Zihua, Mexico. Purchase Fest Tickets Online Here Before September 1, 2019 To Take Advantage Of This One Time Promotion. Your Promo Voucher Will Be Emailed To You.
Great event July 11 in Mexico City and now we look forward to our Tequila Blues & Rock Explosion III by the beach in Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo in January 2020. Blues, Rock & Roots music at its finest. More information at our Facebook Page (like the page to receive updates and news) and at our Tequila Blues Rock Website
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Join us for a night of fun and network building on July 11 at McCarthy’s Tlalpan, in Mexico City, our great community partner. Halos will be awarded. Mas amor, por favor!
We’re Excited To Tell You About The Possibilities For Tequila Blues Explosion Fest III in Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo January 2020. News Releases for download in English and Spanish below. Looking forward to seeing you on January 10 in Ixtapa-Zihua or even earlier at some of our other Tequila Blues & Rock Explosion events. Like our FB page to always get the latest news or follow us here. English News Release text below as well.
Espanol Version.
May 23, 2019-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Bob Rempel, Managing Co-Chairperson. Address: Winnipeg/Ixtapa, Mexico Phone/W.A:+52 755 101 5989 Co-chair & Mexico Liaison: Natalia Ruiz Gomez, Mexico City +52 552 9420701 (Phone/W.A.)
Emails: tequilabluesfest@gmail.com & bobrempel@gmail.com
Web: https://tequilabluesrock.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/tequilabluesfests/
Tequila Blues Explosion Fests Ready To Return To Ixtapa & Zihuatanejo
Blues and Blues-Rock Explosion Weekend #3 Will Be Held In Mexico on January 10-12, 2020. Advance Tickets At Best Possible Value Ever On Sale Now-Price Increase June 1, 2019
Possible Second Weekend of Live Blues & Blues-Rock Music For January 17-19
We’re very pleased to announce the plans for the 3rd Tequila Blues Explosion Fest Event for the weekend of January 10-12, 2020 in Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo, stated festival organizer Bob Rempel.
Based on anticipated successful fundraising, new sponsorships and advance ticket sales over the next six months, we have an excellent roster of performers we are ready to present, he said. All have already agreed to perform. Many more are possible. Well known names, and newcomers, who are rising stars.
The great live music continues with appearances by Fest favorites Geoff and Chris Dahl, who will present their high energy truly amazing, The Blues Brothers show and a new one for 2020, their The ZZ Top show,
Tangerine from Mexico City, with the great blues-rock voice of Lorena Cabrera Bernal fronting, plus a keyboardist added to the four-piece band now, will feature tributes to Janis Joplin, and Led Zeppelin their specialties, but also Queen, AC-DC, Deep Purple, and others
Charlie Jacobson, highly versatile blues-rock and rockabilly frontman-vocalist, guitarist and showman will come from Canada. He impressed when he was last here
Isidoro Negrete Reynoso,one of Mexico’s finest blues-rock harmonica players, a legend in his country in fact, from Mexico City, will add that great harp feel to bring out the best in the blues songs
New for 2020 we have guitarist and vocalist Joe Brett from Ontario, Canada who is bringing his special Stevie Ray Vaughan (SRV) tribute show to Ixtapa.
Also joining the all star ensemble to make sure the special collaborations that Tequila Blues is becoming known for, truly amaze, is rock, blues and soul music Saxophonist Max Octava Maravilla of Mexico City, Mexico.
Returning to Ixtapa as well is vocalist and harmonica player Robert George now of Nelson, BC, but with his roots in the San Francisco music scene, so he is bringing his pal from the days of youth, multi instrumentalist Mike Billo with him. Mike has performed with and backed up blues greats such as John Lee Hooker and Jimmy Reed, and many others from San Francisco and all over the world. He plays the harmonica, bass and slide guitars, banjo, ukulele and dobro.
Rempel said Tequila Blues continues in discussions with a lengthy list of performers who have all expressed a serious interest in appearing at the Tequila Blues Fest and supporting our causes, and of course enjoying the great Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo weather and beaches in January as well. As do all our new and old visitors from away attending Tequila Blues Explosion events. “Come for the music stay for the beaches” is the long time slogan Tequila Blues slogan.
People such as blues and jazz vocalist and saxophonist Evelyn Rubio from Houston, originally from Mexico City, Kal David and Lauri Bono from Palm Springs, USA, Brent Parkin, Winnipeg, Canada, Zeppia a 3 piece power rock trio of two sisters and a brother from Mexico City, that features music from Black Sabbath, Grand Funk and much more, Bourbon Blues Ensemble from Leon, MX Fonzeca-Caja de Pandora Project, Monterey, MX, Andrew Parkhouse from Canada, Jimmy D. Lane, from Vancouver, B.C and originally Detroit, Austin Cane from Cleveland, USA and Rafael Tranquilino from Seattle, USA and originally from Mexico City.
Many are ideal candidates for our additional second weekend of great music if we attract the ticket sales and sponsorship we require for our first weekend, according to Rempel.
“We’ve tried to tell everyone connected and interested in growth for Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo these past three years, Tequila Blues Explosion Fest originator, Bob Rempel said, that these kind of events are tourism magnets that many tourism focused communities in Mexico are hoping to develop or acquire to give them an edge to attract visitors. The kind of visitors with higher levels of spending that will really benefit a community in the highly competitive and somewhat stagnant tourism environment that currently exists in Mexico.”
Support from all sectors of the community, governments, and the fans, our ticket buying public will help create an ongoing music festival with a difference, for Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo that will continue to grow every year. We hope that the next 6 months will show us everyone wants this for Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo and not let it go elsewhere, Rempel added.
Tequila Blues events are also fundraisers for the community. In the first two years over 120,000 pesos has been donated to a children’s orphanage near Zihuatanejo. In 2020 Tequila Blues Events, and our venue partners, with the support of the fans, will raise funds for children and schools in low income areas near Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, primarily assisting with technology shortfalls, and Animal Rescue work both in Ixtapa-Zihua and other parts of Mexico.
What’s new for 2020?
-New music venue partners who have agreed to help support fundraising and performer’s expenses: Smoke Shack Ixtapa plus adjacent businesses, and Villas Paraiso Hotel & Bar & Grill Ixtapa
-A Zihuatanejo event venue is being sought, and will be announced in the near future
-All Tequila Blues events will be Membership Only events. Membership will be a nominal amount and included in ticket prices in 2020. It signifies the way we wish to treat and deal with our fans in 2020 and in the future. Have them return every year as valued Tequila Blues members. And yes, “membership will have its privileges”.
-Musicians Geoff and Chris Dahl from Canada and Enrique Torres and Lorena Cabrera Bernal from Mexico (Tangerine) have agreed to serve both as music directors and technical advisors, assisting festival directors, to ensure we have the highest standard of performance and sound quality this year and in future years, at all venues, for the fans..
-All events will be sold by Advance Purchase only. Tickets must be in hand before the event. This will make ease of entry much more efficient for everyone and supports our membership only approach. Fans of live music Tequila Blues style performed in warm January weather in Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo close to the near perfect beaches here, will have this marked in red on their calendar many months in advance we know, organizers said.
-Group purchases and group travel to Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo for either the January 10-12 weekend, the January 17-19 weekend, or both, will be fully supported by Tequila Blues fest, the organizers announced. Put a group of 10 or more together from Canada, USA or Mexico and we will bend over backward to make your trip to Tequila Blues Explosion Fest a memorable one with great value. We are truly all about our slogan: “Come for the Music-Stay For The Beach”
-A free show by all the visiting musicians and performers for the evening of Thursday January 9, for all local residents of Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo and region, at a Central location, is under consideration. The support of a major sponsor, private or government, to help defray the costs of staging the event, will be essential however.
-Fest organizers will make their best efforts to incorporate additional events they organize into the Tequila Blues Explosion Fest as soon as possible, with growth every year. Events such as beach volleyball or ultimate frisbee (disc sports) tournaments, motorcycle and car club rallies, art and crafts show and sale, pet shows, and a pets in motion fun run/walk/bike event along the ciclopista with the family pet or your rescue dog or cat.
-Fundraising for January 2020 Starts Now! Please visit https://tequilabluesrock.com/festivaltickets to purchase Tequila Blues Explosion 3.0 advance tickets and memberships. For groups, sponsorships/partnerships or other communication and proposals please send us a message from Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/tequilabluesfests/ Messaging also available from website or use our email address or phone/whatsapp.
Useful Links:
2020:
Online Advance Ticket Purchase: https://tequilabluesrock.com/festivaltickets/
2020 Festival Performers Playlist:
Youtube: (Coming Soon) follow channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtj8gGbHYwIv_lOTK2jmHQ/playlists
Spotify: (Coming Soon and published at Tequila Blues Facebook and Website)
2019:
2019 Festival Wrap Up
2019 Fest Performance Videos: https://www.facebook.com/tequilabluesfests/ and click on videos from the left hand column.
Also go to Tequila Blues YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtj8gGbHYwIv_lOTK2jmHQ/videos
