SAN ANTONIO – It’s official. One of the seismic music stories in 2014 will be a reunion album, after more than 50 years, from brothers and musical legends Flaco Jimenez and Santiago Jimenez Jr.
On a day where temperatures in San Antonio’s Los Angeles Heights neighborhood touch 102 effortlessly, Santiago Jiménez Jr. looks impossibly cool. He wanders outside his office in a pressed, ...
Santiago Jiménez Jr. has drawn worldwide accolades for sticking to the traditional conjunto sound pioneered by his father. He appears this Saturday at Taco Fest. Credit: Jim Mendiola Beyond being a ...
San Antonio’s Tejano Conjunto Festival began in 1982. That’s also the last time brothers Flaco Jimenez and Santiago Jimenez Jr. shared a stage together. Flaco, 73, is conjunto’s crossover figure, the ...
The Lonesome Rose is celebrating seven years on San Antonio’s St. Mary’s Strip with a four-day music festival featuring performances by Texas and local acts playing anything from country and Tejano to ...
Sundays With Santiago features a national musical treasure playing for free at a little Mexican meat market on the west side of San Antonio. "It's just a lot of fun to do, and the Almanza family are ...
SAN ANTONIO – Conjunto legend Santiago Jimenez Jr. will return to the same Luminaria stage on Saturday where he was overcome by fumes from a diesel generator at the art and music event's opening on ...
It doesn’t really bother Santiago Jimenez Jr. that three generations of accordion players might end with him. At 73, he’s still touring, still producing music and still more than happy to sell CDs ...
SAN ANTONIO — Flaco Jimenez, a six-time Grammy winner who took his conjunto accordion musicianship to the national and worldwide stages with countless superstar musicians and bands, has died, his ...
HOUSTON – Flaco Jimenez, the legendary accordionist from San Antonio who won multiple Grammys and helped expand the popularity of conjunto, Tejano and Tex-Mex music, died Thursday. He was 86.