Tejano Conjunto Festival
San Antonio, TX · Music
- When
- May 13–16, 2027
- Where
- Rosedale Park, 303 Dartmouth St · San Antonio · TX
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
Billed as the longest-running conjunto and accordion music festival in the world, presented by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center at Rosedale Park since 1982. The multi-day festival features dozens of conjunto acts and draws visitors from across Texas and beyond.
The history within reach
- Tejano Conjunto Festivalsame spot
Billed as the longest-running conjunto and accordion music festival in the world, presented by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center at Rosedale Park since 1982.
Twelve thousand Mexican American shellers, mostly women earning about two cents a pound, walked out under Emma Tenayuca, a 21-year-old organiser the police arrested repeatedly and tear-gassed.
A teenager playing a twelve-string for coins in the open-air market became the first star of Tejano music and recorded for fifty years.
San Antonio's official Mexican Independence Day commemoration at Historic Market Square, hosted by the city's Diez y Seis de Septiembre Commission with the Mexican Consulate.
The largest theatre ever built in the United States for Spanish-language film and live variety, seating 2,500 under a tiled facade and a six-storey mural in glass.