The Fiesta music festival, which ran from the early 1970s to 1995, returns this year as a two-day festival at Hemisfair.
Joe “King” Carrasco’s fondest memories of La Semana Alegre usually happened offstage. When he leaped into the crowd. Back in the ’80s, the “king of Tex-Mex rock ‘n’ roll” and his band, the Crowns , ruled the Fiesta music festival like a court of amped-up jesters, bopping between feel-good rock fare like the Pharoahs ' ' Wooly Booly ' and their own hit “ Party Weekend ” and down-home South Texas tunes like Sir Douglas Quintet ’s “She’s About a Mover” and “ Hey Baby Que Paso .
and Motörhead. Peter Frampton and REO Speedwagon. The Bangles and Mary J. Blige. Even Spinal Tap once took the stage. And in 1990, blues rock legend Stevie Ray Vaughan fired up the crowd in one of his last performances, just four months before his death. La Semana also showcased many conjunto and Tejano artists, including superstars such as the aforementioned Selena as well as Emilio Navaira, plus squeezebox stalwarts such as La Mafia, Little Joe y La Familia and Ramiro Herrera.
when the band played La Semana without their signature makeup. But his best La Semana memories were of him just messing around with his friends. “Having a good time. Roaming everywhere. Hooking up. Everything was good,” Límon said. So good he said some guys would break up with a girl just to go to La Semana. He recalled one friend who made his girlfriend angry to do just that.
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