San Pancho Music Festival in Mexico
Its that time of year again, and the 13th annual San Pancho Music Festival is happening on February 22 through the 24th.
They 
will feature performing artists from the region of Riviera Nayarit, Mexico, as well as musicians from the United States and Latin America. The San Pancho Music Festival has really come a long way and grown from the original concept of a backyard venue of a local resident in 2001. Click here for last years photos!
San Pancho, also traditionally known as San Francisco, is located on the Riviera Nayarit just north of Sayulita and South of
Lo de Marcos off of the 200 highway in Mexico. A small quaint 
town filled families and unity, this town is also chalked with Mexican culture, art and wildlife. The San Pancho estuary holds many birds and other wildlife, with clean pristine beaches making San Pancho a place to go and be remembered.
The location of the San Pancho Music festival is at the Plaza del Sol, and is easy to locate, as there is only one main avenida. As you come into San Pancho, it is off of the main street on the left, about half way into town. Last year in early 2012 the Plaza del Sol in San Pancho was remodeled and it’s facilities updated. A new stage was completed to enhance the Plaza as an entertainment venue. Public rest-rooms were modernized, the portico was remodeled with new landscape installed. The Plaza is now better suited for the ever increasing crowds drawn to the community celebrations and festi
vals.
The San Pancho music and fun will begin at 5pm each day, with performances up until 11pm each night with fun a jam session Saturday evening. The lineup for music looks like fun this year.
Here they are :
Friday 2/22
5pm – Folkloric Dancers
5:45pm – Juan-Ted (rock-n-roll, blues, pop, guitar)
6:30pm – Frida’s Eyebrow (blues, folksy ballads)
7:15pm – Pantera Fantasma
8pm – Dave Fisher & the 8 O’clock Band (folk, ballads, guitar)
8:45pm – Los Bertos y Las Muses
9:30pm – The Duvalin Band (classic rock, pop)
10:20pm – Atrakadero (Latin ballads and Banda)
Saturday 2/23
5pm – Leonardo (Swedish hang)
5:45pm – Joe Hadlock (jazz, pop, keyboards)
6:30pm – Uiok and Friends (classic, new age, pop)
7:15pm – Werther Ellerbrock (blues, pop, rock, guitar)
8pm – Jeff Oster (smooth jazz, trumpet & flugelhorn)
8:45pm - Steve O’Connor & Doug Robinson (jazz, keyboards)
9:45pm – Banderas Bay Jazz Allstars (jazz)
10:15pm – Jam Session with:
· Jeff Oster, trumpet
· Chas Eller, keyboards
· Bryan Savage, alto sax
· Steve York, bass
· Werther Ellerbrock, electric guitar
· Lazaro Poey, drums
· Doug Robinson, melodica
· Steve O’Connor, acoustic guitar
Sunday 2/24
5pm - to be announced
6pm – Luna Rumba
7pm – Tatewari (flamenco)
7:45pm – Beto, Carlos, and Carlita (traditional ballads)
8:15pm – Latcho & Andrea, The Blonde Gypsies (flamenco, gypsy boogaloo)
9:15pm – Los Compas (Nortena music, Latin)
10:30pm – Mariachi / folklorico
It is a truly wonderful balance of amateurs and professional performers coming together for 3 days to share an unforgettable and enriching musical
experience in one of the most beautiful regions of Mexico. Come early and enjoy the day and the San Pancho Beach.
The San Pancho Hostel is offering rooms on Saturday for 1/2 price! Stay Saturday, and get Sunday FREE, along with a late checkout on Monday!
That’s a sweet deal, and makes for a very fun weekend!
You an contact them here.
squares will be decorated, with festivals, church’s will have celebrations, and new paintings on sides of buildings of Guadalupe, along with the bombs going off at all hours of the night and early morning. This is how Mexico celebrates, and Mexico loves Our Lady of Guadalupe.
and asked that a church be built at this location. Juan Diego thought she was the Virgin Mary. He needed to prove this to the Archbishop at the time by getting a sign from this teenage girl. He was instructed to pick some flowers, Castilian Roses, which was a difficult task as they were hard to find since it was late in the blooming season. The so called “Virgin Mary” arranged the flowers in a cloak in such a way that when it fell to the ground in front of the Archbishop there was an imprint left on the cloak of the Virgin of Guadalupe. The icon is now displayed in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
people of Puerto Vallarta. With the new PV malacon built, all festivities are fun! Take a taxi as there will not be a place to park anywhere close to the malacon. The streets during the Festival of Our Lady of Guadalupe ignites with festivities, processions and religious passion. Many groups and organizations arrange to meet and participate in the pilgrimage to Puerto Vallarta’s Cathedral “the Church of Our Lady Of Guadalupe”. Today between 18-20 million pilgrims visit the Basilica.
uttered from the small town of Dolores , near Guanajuato on September 16, 1810. It is the event that marks the beginning of the Mexican War of Independence. The “grito” was the announcing of the Mexican War of Independence by Miguel, a Roman Catholic priest. Since October 1825, the anniversary of the event is celebrated as Mexican Independence Day. 
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Its the 6th Annual International Tuna & Marlin Fishing Tournament again, hosted by the Bahia de Banderas Sport Fishing Club, and it is being held on the Riviera Nayarit in Marina Riviera Nayarit in
has the perfect conditions for sport fishing,and many a fisherman come from afar to enjoy the delights and the abundance of big fish that make their home there, making it a great fishing vacation. And, its easy to bring the family with them as there is
other two are Sailfish catch and release, and a Dorado category. Both will have special prizes!
