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El Casino Ballroom, Tucson, AZ 1/27/18

First show of 2018.  

I decided to attemp the blog again.  Last year was a total bust, but I’ll try harder.  

This year we have a new agency, The Roots Agency, so there may (or may not) be lots to write about.

The Tucson show was amazing: 600+ dancing Tucsonians.  We have always had a great following in Tucson.  And the El Casino is an old friend, in terms of places we’ve played.

The first time we played there, before the roof blew off, was in the late 1980s, with Canray Fontenot and Bois Sec Ardoin.  The really cool thing about the El Casino was that there was a secret bar behind the main stage.  This was our dressing room.  In the secret bar a Norteno band playing.  Also tequila shots were 25 cents.  When we got up to play, Can and Bois were pretty well lit; we found out Michael was pretty much, too.  It was a memorable set: Canray decided to sit in.  Michael slipped, fell, but never missed a beat.  It was quite a show.

The ‘new’ El Casino is working on getting its old grandeur, and I’m sure it will.  Downtown Tucson has lost a lot of its funkiness, but out where the ballroom is looks a lot like it used to.

I hope we can get back to Tucson soon.

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