The Conjunto San Antonio is a band from Badajoz City
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The Conjunto San
Antonio is a band from Badajoz City,a Spanish
town bordering Portugal. There, a bunch of musicians who
had been involved in different music styles(Rock and Roll,
Pop, Son Cubano) decided to create a band devoted to one
of their favourite music: Tex-mex or Conjunto Music (Musica Norteña
And they started with a wide repertory following the newest fusion
sounds of Tex-mex, where the most traditional tendencies of the Conjunto
Music (based on the bajo sexto, electric bass, drums, voices and the
accordion) live in a rich harmony with Country or Caribbean
Cd “Vuelvo a Texas” (Opticdata/DOCK 2003)
The name of the band is a clear homage to the Texas town where the best
Tex-mex musicians, like the accordionist Flaco Jiménez ( who has been
performing in Spain for several time) have their home.
The band was started by Sebastian Cuellar (bajo sexto, guitars and vocals)
and Miguel A. Pérez (diatonic and piano accordions and vocals), initially
as a duet and today, two new members have joined the project :
Alvaro Fernández (electric bass and vocals) and Txema Aretio (drums and
21 Tejano Conjunto Festival, San Antonio. Texas. May 2002
The Conjunto San Antonio offers a highly spiced and varied lot of
Texas Tornados classical hits: rancheras like Marina, stunning themes as
Volver, cumbias such as La Mucura, typical polkas like El Barrelito,
Rock songs as Missery train, That´s all right Mama or Rueda de Fuego
or others (Hijo de Su, Marie ...)
However, we can see the truly personality of the band listening to their
own compositions. We will discover the delicate coolness and the traditional
sounds in rancheras like Vuelvo a Texas or San Antonio Flower or we will be
irremediably dancing to the notes of the cheerful cumbia El Caballito.
We will also be trapped by those bilingual songs which lead us to the Texas
heart, like The Lucky Love or Es Verdad. Some of them are included in the
two records of the band: Campomatilde ( 2000), Vuelvo a Texas (2003) and
El Corrido de Flaco Jiménez (2005)
In the last two years, the crew has been working hard to open their music to
the audience and extend their boundaries with outstanding international
experiences such as their participation in the XXI, XXII and XXIV Tejano Conjunto
being the first Spanish band and the third non-american which has taken
part in the Festival, where, once a year, 25 bands of the best ones in
Tejano Conjunto Music gather to make this event the most important in the
They have also been in festivals such as WOMAD in Cáceres (Extremadura,
Spain) or MEDIATIC FESTIVAL in Alcoy (Alicante, Spain), Mestival in Elche
They also have been invited to perform in the Country Music Festival of
Mediatic Festival(Alcoi,Spain)
Their music is present in Texas as well. They are on Radio Jalapeño and on
an on-line radio station in Weslaco, Laredo, where their songs are quite
They have sown enough to get back again to the State of the Lonely Star,
the birth place of Conjunto Music.
The band is on the their way to spread their performances in Central Europe and
Mexico, where they have talks to get an agreement with Representaciones
Artísticas Apodaca from the northern town of Monterrey
New Cd"El Corrido de Flaco Jiménez"
CSA/DOCK(2005)
His last cd, the Corrido Of Flaco Jiménez was recorded among San Antonio
Texas and Badajoz (Spain) with such high musicians as Joel Guzman (winner
of three gramies, player with Iso Super Seven, Joey Eli, and so on...), Max
Baca (who frecuently plays with Flaco Jiménez and who has recorded with
Texas Tornados and The Rolling Stone), Sara Fox, Roger "Rabbit" Garza(
Flaco's guitar) or The Texamaniacs, who complet the colaborations in this
plural record, where it is done a homage to the king of gendre, Flaco
Jiménez, and where between the good versions (cumbias, polkas and vals) two
themes popularized by Elvis Presley are played in ranchera way.
