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Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano Moves Forward
This weekend, the cross-county, collaborative cultural program ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! brings legendary band Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano to Santa Barbara stages north and south. The Grammy Award–winning ensemble will present its world-renowned mariachi in a series of free community-outreach performances, beginning Thursday, January 7, with a mariachi workshop at Isla Vista’s St. George Family Youth Center, followed by a Friday, January 8, performance at Isla Vista School and a pair of matinees and evening shows at the Guadalupe City Hall Auditorium and Santa Barbara’s Marjorie Luke Theatre on Saturday and Sunday, January 9 and 10.
The group arrives in a state of revitalization and transition following the 2014 passing of its namesake founder, Nati Cano, who began the group in the 1960s. Taking the leadership helm is Jesús Guzmán, who joined the group in 1989 and has served as its music director for decades. Guzmán h
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Nati Cano
Mexican-American mariachi musician and bandleader
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Cano in 1990 | |
| Birth name | Natividad Cano |
| Born | (1933-06-23)June 23, 1933 Ahuisculco, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Died | October 3, 2014(2014-10-03) (aged 81) Fillmore, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Mariachi |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, bandleader, composer, arranger |
| Instrument(s) | Mexican vihuela, violin |
| Years active | 1950–2014 |
| Formerly of | Mariachi los Camperos |
Musical artist
Natividad "Nati" Cano (June 23, 1933 – October 3, 2014) was a Mexican-born American mariachi musician and former, longtime leader of Mariachi los Camperos, a Grammy-winning mariachi band based in Los Angeles.[1] According to the Los Angeles Times, Mariachi los Camperos is "widely considered one of the top mariachi ensembles in the country".[1] In 1990, Cano was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor i
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When I was in college, my father would make occasional trips from San Jose to Los Angeles to see the new mariachi at La Fonda, a restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard His visits were more like musical pilgrimages. Dr. Gurza would say there was no place to hear a good mariachi in the Bay Area. So, whenever he’d drive south, ostensibly to visit a friend from our hometown of Torreon, he’d always make a beeline for La Fonda first. That was an 8-hour drive in those days, on the old 101 Highway. But Dad was never too tired to take in a set or two by Los Camperos de Nati Cano.
Fast forward almost 40 years. I’m standing in La Fonda again, this time as a writer for the Los Angeles Times, interviewing Nati Cano as he was about to be evicted from his longtime location. He was in the midst of legal dispute with his landlord over rent increases, a victim of the gentrification that has pushed so many Latinos out of homes and businesses in barrios throughout Californi