Troker is a tapatío project presenting another side of jazz, a fusion of rhythms and hip hop, Funk, break beats, trip hop, lounge, drum and bass, and some Latin beats.

They participated in the Festival of Music in 2004 and 2005, the Puerto Vallarta Jazz Festival in 2004 and 2005, the May Cultural Festival, in the International Book Fair in Guadalajara 2005, and are very important part in the presentations at Paseo Chapultepec, also playing in the Zocalo of Mexico City and in the Auditorio Nacional, sharing the stage with major groups in the republic and important musicians at the international level….

Troker will play here in Puerto Vallarta on February 29 at 8 pm at the Los Arcos Ampitheater on the Malecón in a free concert as part of the Puerto Vallarta Wine Fest.

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On Sunday, February 17 at 8pm on in front of the hallway of the Presidencia, Los Hermanos Aguascalientes will perform a free concert. This follows the traditional Puerto Vallarta Big Band Concert and Dance at 6 and 7pm in the Presidencia Square. This is an evening of music and dance for the whole family.

Los hermanos Aguascalientes is composed of Daniel and Jose Luis on violins, Gregory on guitar, Mario on the keyboard and Daniel Jr. on bass. They originate from San Miguel de Allende.

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Saturday evening, February 16, the Band Boo Funk will perform at 8 pm at the Malecón Los Arcos Theater. Free.

This group was formed in Mexico City in November 2005. Its members are from several states of the Mexican Republic and are between 18 and 22 years and all of them were students of the Academy of Music Fermatta.

The strong friendship that unites them is their raison d’être and the main driving force of this musical project presenting a different concept, a new sound.

In Boo’s style – funk is absolutely integral, as they believe that music and art are not (or should not have) boundaries of space or time or economics. They are concerned with creating songs with themes for a variety of audiences, ages, socio-economic levels and tastes. This young band, despite its recent inception, has been very well accepted by the public

They already have a recording titled “Our history has no end…,” which contains 11 tracks and was recorded in 2007 and is now on sale. In addition, they are currently are preparing material for what will be their second album.

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Music lessons

Things you can learn from the music business (as it falls apart)

The first rule is so important, it’s rule 0:

0. The new thing is never as good as the old thing, at least right now.
Soon, the new thing will be better than the old thing will be. But if you wait until then, it’s going to be too late. Feel free to wax nostalgic about the old thing, but don’t fool yourself into believing it’s going to be here forever. It won’t.

1. Past performance is no guarantee of future success
Every single industry changes and, eventually, fades. Just because you made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there’s no reason to believe you’ll succeed at it tomorrow.

The music business had a spectacular run alongside the baby boomers. Starting with the Beatles and Dylan, they just kept minting money. The co-incidence of expanding purchasing power of teens along with the birth of rock, the invention of the transistor and changing social mores meant a long, long growth curve.

As a result, the music business built huge systems. They created top-heavy organizations, dedicated superstores, a loss-leader touring industry, extraordinarily high profit margins, MTV and more. It was a well-greased system, but the key question: why did it deserve to last forever?

It didn’t. Yours doesn’t either.

Read the rest of Seth Godin’s Column at
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/music-lessons.html