DESDE LA SALA

Desde La Sala was one of the first digital programs the ESB-MACC presented. A series of performances by some of our favorite artists, from their living room to yours - FOR FREE! Please enjoy our Desde La Sala highlights.

MARIACHI LAS CORONELAS

Like nothing you've ever seen. It is an eleven-member, beautiful, all-female ensemble that performs a high-energy entertaining show from beginning to end. A mix of songs in English and Spanish that cater to every single person in the audience. From love songs, to dance songs to the Devil went down to Georgia, Las Coronelas are changing the way people perceive Mariachi Genre. Created and directed by Vanessa del Fierro, beauty, talent, high-energy and plenty of audience interaction are qualities that Las Coronelas bring. Don't let the dresses and high heels fool you, when these ladies put on a show, they truly make it a magical event and will leave the audience asking for more. Guaranteed to be something you've never seen and will definitely be an experience you will never forget!

STEPHANIE URBINA JONES & THE HONKY TONK MARIACHI

Stephanie Urbina Jones is a fiery texas Latina performer breaking through Country Americana music with a south of the border, Honky Tonk Mariachi sound and style all her own. Stephanie tours nationally and internationally, having performed in fourteen countries, including appearances in prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival, CMA Music Festival, Americana Music Festival, Magic Town Music Fest in Mexico, Festial Country Rendez-vous in France, Country Gold in Japan, Gstaad Festival in Switzerland and The Belladrum Tartan Heart Fest in Scotland. Most recently, she became the first artist in the 93 year history of the Grand Ole Opry to bring Mariachi to the stage.

GINA CHAVEZ

Growing up in Austin, TX, Gina Chavez didn’t pick up a guitar until she was in college. The instrument proved to be her ticket around the world. Since then, she has traveled to Japan as a cultural ambassador for the city of Austin. She also toured the world as a cultural ambassador with the US State Dept, performing to international audiences in 10 countries. To date, Chavez has won multiple awards, including 12 Austin Music Awards and the Grand Prize for the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. She topped the iTunes and Amazon Latin charts with her second album, Up.Rooted. She closed out the decade alongside Oprah, Loretta Lynn and Beyonce as one of 100 women featured in Garden & Gun’s new book, Southern Women: 100 Stories of Innovators, Artists and Icons. Currently, Chavez lives in Austin with her wife, Jodi Granado. Together, they co-founded the Niñas Arriba, a college fund that offers full scholarships to a private, Catholic university for young girls in Soyapango, El Salvador.

IRENE DIAZ

Throughout her life, Irene Diaz has always been about The Search. For identity. For expression. For music and her place in it, and for a creative community and direction that best serves her mission. All of that can be found in Diaz’s songs and on Lovers & Friends, the California singer-songwriter’s debut full-length album which was recorded in both Mexico City and Los Angeles. With its captivating melodies and richly nuanced ambience, it introduces Diaz as an artist who’s taken many paths to get to this point, and is excited to find even more creative roads to travel as she moves forward. “I’m always questioning and I’m always trying to just figure it out, even though I’m never going to figure it out,” Diaz says. “There’s so much we don’t know about. But when I write, I write very subconsciously. It just kind of comes out of me and I follow wherever it’s leading. It’s almost like a book, like a biography. I consider it that.”

NEMEGATA

Hycha Wy” in the Muisca language, means “I am” in past or present tense depending on the context. This is the name of Nemegata’s debut LP, recorded by Beto Martinez (Prince / Brownout / Grupo Fantasma), and by longtime collaborator and colleague Juan Alvarez "El Mono", out on Chicago’s indie label Sonorama Discos. The album puts into context a far-reaching exploration into the many channels of influence this band possesses. Synthesizing tradition with elements of South American and African psychedelia through imaginary landscapes inviting the listener into what is without a doubt a sonic trip towards resignified roots and ancestry. To cope with being an immigrant preteen growing up in the late 90’s USA, Victor-Andres Cruz "El Guámbito" obsessed over Colombian traditional music and instruments as a defense mechanism. He found refuge and a profound sense of identity rooted in these sounds. Raised as an amalgamation between the Colombian Andean countryside, Florida, New England and New York City, Victor created a voice and a place where all worlds converge.

SUSANNA SHARPE & MARCO ANTONIO SANTOS

Vocalist Susanna Sharpe and guitarist Marco Antonio Santos have been performing as a duo in Austin since 2017, specializing in Brazilian music. Each of them brings a long musical trajectory to their collaboration. A native of New York, Susanna has been entertaining audiences in Austin for over three decades, specializing in Brazilian musical styles, including samba, bossa nova, jazz-inspired pieces, and MPB (música popular brasileira, or Brazilian popular music). Born and raised in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Marco is a versatile and sought-after composer, arranger, performer, and teacher. He earned a master’s in jazz guitar performance from the University of Texas at Austin and is now pursuing a doctorate in jazz composition at UT. As a duo, Susanna and Marco seek ways to have a different musical conversation in each performance.

É ARENAS

É Arenas is the bass player and founding member of LA-based band Chicano Batman, who has received national attention after touring with Jack White, Alabama Shakes, Gogol Bordello, and performing at Coachella and Bonaroo.

GIO CHAMBA

Gio Chamba’s sound emanates from the cultural melting-pot that is Houston. Their music is dotted with vicious raps, tropical guitar and vocal melodies, and intense guitar solos from Giovanny, but the driving force comes from Coffee’s percussion, rooted in the wide-spread genre, Cumbia. Coffee smashes the congas like a punk rocker, but keeps the beat going in perfect time, serving up an infectious pulse for the crowd to feed on. It’s a potent combination and the grooves hit so hard that you can’t help but dance.

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