El Vez rocks The Bowery Ballroom. (Photos copyright 2009, Steven P. Marsh)
The holidays have given Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone? plenty of shows to check out, but little time to say much about them. So today is catch-up day on one of the season’s most enjoyable holiday shows: El Vez, the Mexican Elvis, and masked surf rockers Los Straitjackets.
El Vez and Los Straitjackets filled the Bowery Ballroom with their special brand of Christmas spirit on Saturday night, Dec. 5.
El Vez is serious.
It put an awesome new spin on El Vez’s longstanding Merry MexMas holiday tour, as Los Straitjackets brought a slightly different musical sensibility to El Rey de Rock ‘n Roll’s show. El Vez normally tours with his own band, the Memphis Mariachis.
El Vez in Santa suit.
The new pairing freshened El Vez’s wonderful mash-ups of traditional holiday songs with punk and rock classics.
If you weren’t there, you missed a real treat. Be sure to plan early next year. Enjoy the photos.
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