It’s May 1. We’re feeling good. So is “Summer” or “Maggie May” (let’s let Rod Stewart and Ron Wood perform their ode to Maggie of May in the comments below). We’re not sure of our beautiful Latina model’s real name. I like “Summer”. Here she is standing at what looks like the Zihuatanejo Bay in Mexico telling us to go enjoy summer and all it has to offer because Winter Festing in Mexico comes soon after. And to tell you as well, that we’re pitching some clubs in Alberta and soon in Manitoba and elsewhere about a new campaign of ours for our summer travels. A night of great music in “Battle” format to discover at least one great act. The Battle To Go Mexico on January 26-29, 2023 in Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, or another one of our event dates in places like Mexico City or Mazatlan. And as we always do, try to raise as much as we can for a very timely and worthy cause…perhaps something like “Peace…One Love…A Night For Ukrainian Refugees Resettling In Canada and the local community. We’ll keep you informed friends. Just wanted to tell you what we’re working on. Have a great May and summer months!
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.
Come For The Music…Stay For The Sunsets And The Beaches January 26-29, 2023, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
Or Vice Versa Of Course.
Sample Our Gorgeous Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo Sunsets Below In This Short Promo Video. Playa El Palmar, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo. Over 10 Great Beaches In The Area.
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
Coming Soon…Very…Very Soon…It’s Mexico Baby!
Where Do You Want To Be On March 19, 2021? Tequila Rock ‘n Blues Explosion Festival #4-Always For Great Causes-Always For Fun In The Sun When It’s Cold Everywhere Else.
Safety For Fans & Performers Is Our #1 Priority. Great Live Music & Fun In The Warmth A Very Close Second.
Go To Advance Fest Pass Purchase Now To Get Your Choice Of Best Available Seating At The Event. For Advance Pass & Ticket Holders Only.
Updating You About Our Support Of Mexico Causes & People. March 2020 to September 2020. Our Report To The Community And Particularly Our Loyal Fans And Donors About Our Support Of the Community.
We Are Fully Committed To Our Brand Tag Lines: Tequila Rock ‘n Blues Explosion Festival & Events: Always For Great Causes, Always For Fun, Always For Great Live Music In The Warmth Near The Beach.
We Want To Do More, We Know We Can Do More. With Your Support And Assistance.
Why We Continue To Plan For 2021 & 2022 And Continue To Build Our Live International Rock ‘n Blues Music Festival And Associated Events In Mexico So We Can Increase Our Support For Local Causes and Benefit Local Businesses And Their Employees.
Natalia Ruiz Gomez of the Claudio Bigotes Memorial Animal Shelter of Toluca/Mexico City And Choco, the young part Doberman rescued from the street, who needed extensive Vet. treatments.
Our Current Total Of Contributions To The Community From January 1998 To Today After Funding All Costs Of Staging The Festival Through Cash Flow Is 170,390 pesos.
An Additional Donation of 5, 000 pesos Was Made In Early April To The Claudio Bigotes Memorial Animal Rescue Shelter In Toluca/Mexico City For Special Veterinary Treatment Needed.
From Funds Raised During The 2020 January To March Events As Reported In Our March 2020 Report To The Community, (See Below) We Contributed 12,200 pesos to Amigos de Animales of Barra Potosi, $10,730 pesos to the Claudio Bigotes Memorial Animal Rescue Shelter, and 3,000 pesos to Vicente Contreras, our 14-year-old guitar prodigy, for continued training in guitar from our Realizing Potentials Fund. There is a further pledge to Vicente of another 3,000 pesos following the successful completion of phase 1 of his new training.
Vincente Contreras, 14 years old of Ixtapa-Zihua.
And then Covid-19 struck. Many performer friends of our Festival, suddenly were unable to perform live in public for payment or tips. We made an “executive decision” in late April to reallocate 9, 000 pesos from our Realizing Potentials Fund to help, in a small, but meaningful way still we felt, and provide support three Mexican rock ‘n blues groups who have always given our Cause Fests their time and performance without demands for payment.
Now we are looking forward to January 2021 and 2022. In addition to continuing to support our 2020 Street Animal Rescue organizations and the Realizing Potentials Fund, we also wish to support Local Businesses and their Employees who were devastated by Covid 19 and help kickstart Mexico Tourism Recovery.
You will see some interesting announcements soon on our new plans to support both Local Business and their Employees and Mexico Tourism Recovery overall while continuing support for our ongoing Causes.
As always, we sincerely welcome the Feedback and Suggestions of our Fans And Past Donors.
We’ve Only Just Begun!…Stealing A Song Title There.
Many New Performers Ready To Participate in 2021 & 2022 More New Performers, Many From Mexico For Our International Fest
Let Us “Come Together” In 2021 & 2021 For Great Live Music By Big Hearted International Performers Who Love Mexico And The People. For Fun In The Warmth With Family & Friends Old And New. Always For Great Causes.
See You January 2021 in Ixtapa, Mexico When We “Isolate No More” With Your Full Care & Safety At The Highest Priority In Our Planning. Ticket Sales & Tour Group Signups (with Fest Pass included) Start August 1. Because of Covid-19 Safety, All Ticket Sales Will Have To Be Advance Only In 2021. Single Show Tickets, 1 Weekend Pass & A 3 Weekend Pass Available. Deadline For PreSale Is December 15, 2021.
For More Information Please Contact Us Directly: Email Us At “tequilabluesfest@gmail.com”, Whatsapp- +52 755 101 5989, or Message Us From Our Facebook Page:
Over 10 Years Of Performing At Blues Festivals. 3 CD’s Of Originals & Covers. A Talented Multi-Instrumentalist. Performs in English & Spanish.
We’re Very Pleased To Announce Bluesman Juan Carlos Cortes Of Morelia, Mexico To Perform At Our “Isolate No More” Benefit Fest For Local Recovery January 2021. The TTC Rock ‘n Blues Explosion Fest #4 (TTC=Tequila, Tacos & Cervezas)
Not Only Will We Support Local Business & Their Employees Severely Hurt By Covid-19 in 2021, We Will Also Continue To Support Our Ongoing Street Animal Rescue And Kids Development Causes We’ve Supported In Past Events.
In Addition To Staging Three Years of Fests And Other Events And Bringing Exceptional Talent And Great Music To Ixtapa-Zihua in Winter, With The Support Of Our Dedicated Fans, Organizers Have Been Able To Donate Over 170,000 Pesos To Causes. We’re Committed To Continue And Do Much More In The Future.
Follow This Site & Our Facebook Page To See All The Public Announcements Of Great Performers, Already Committed To Attend, As We Make Them, Over The Next Few Months. Tickets For The 3 Great Weekends Of The Fest And Tour Group Signups with Fest Pass Included Go On Sale August 1, 2020. Tour Groups from Canada, USA & Mexico Forming Now. It All starts January 15, 2021. We Assure You Your Care & Safety Is Job 1 For Us. Y
Many Upcoming Events And We’ve Been Talking With The Media. We’re Sharing The News Releases With Our Fans So You Know All The Future Plans.
Ricardo Gomez of Villas Paraiso Hotel in Ixtapa and Bob Rempel of Tequila Blues ‘n Rock Explosion Events appeared on 98.5 FM Ixtapa-Zihua and their Facebook Live Morning Zanka Show on Monday. Check out the Facebook Live Interview. Primarily In Spanish, Some English.
See You On February 28 & 29 for the Doors Concert Experience Show By The Crystal Ship Band of Mexico City. 3-3.5 Hrs Of Music Natalia Ruiz Gomez, the inspirational founder of Animales Angels Mexico will be in attendance. She’ll tell us about the daily work she does to rescue, treat, feed and shelter dogs plus tell the story of Choco, the beautiful 2-year-old part Dachshund female she rescued after it was abandoned, who has a tumor in her colon that needs costly cancer medication on a regular basis.
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.
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/
Equally As Good, We Feel! We regret on behalf of our fans that circumstances beyond our control required us to change the Performers’ Lineup and the Venue for the January 17 & 18 shows. We are all about Great Live Music first and foremost. Watch for more Performer Additions.
It’s on tonight as we launch Year III of the Blues & Rock Festival in Ixtapa in the awesome Villas Paraiso Hotel Rock Bar. Transformed overnight. Ready for many more great shows in the future. But today our only focus is in presenting you with one more great live music show of originals and covers of mostly up-tempo rock ‘n blues, with some jazz, soul, pop feel in some of the tunes. A great mix of music. A great list of performers from Mexico, Canada and USA tonight. Then it’s another show on Saturday, January 11 and another on Sunday, January 12. It’s a Festival, after all. It’s our first year for the Ixtapa Film Festival associated with the event. The Blues Brothers 1980 Movie Extended Version with added scenes is being shown today at 4:00 pm at Villas. Then the Blues Brothers ” one of a kind-it’s a can’t miss” show tonight and a lot more. Over 4 hours of live music, and lots of time for dancing. Bring your cameras and capture all the great memories for your friends and family who are stuck back in the cold weather. They’ll want to come for Year 4.
Soundcheck January 9 at Villas Paraiso Hotel Rock Bar. Vicente Contreras of Ixtapa on guitar, Charlie Jacobson on drums.
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.
Our Tequila Blues & Rock Fest News Media Release Today Tells The Story Of Year III in Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo. Plus The History Of The Fest. In English and Spanish.
Please Share This Public Information With Your Media Contacts, And Family and Friends. We Thank You Sincerely. For The Great Live Music…Classic Popular Films, For The Community, For The Deserving Kids And Street Animal Rescue Causes, For The Fun-Fun-Fun! We Come Together in Ixtapa-Zihua, 2020
Version 1.0 Schedule: (Version 2.0 with minor alterations to be released January 2)
Mauricio Kings, from Mexico City, coming to Zihuatanejo January 17-19 with one album of originals plus great covers of The Doors and Dylan and more blues-rock.
Tequila Blues & Explosion Fest. Int. III Ixtapa-Zihua, Mexico. We Kick Off The New Decade In Grand Style. Two Weekends of Rock ‘n Blues ‘n Jazz (and some reggae, some country and more)
Fonzeca CPP Group, Monterrey, Mexico
We’ve Added More Performers For Both January 10-12 and January 17-19 -The Latest & Greatest Poster Now Available. Supporting Very Worthy Local and Mexico Causes.
Great Performer Lineup. Ixtapa Days Have A Feature Film Included As Well. Supporting Great Local & MX causes.
