The 28th Annual Santa Barbara Mariachi Festival was a celebration of the Mexican spirit, and party to honor a unique culture that, as the festival’s headliner Angeles Ochoa sang Saturday night, has no equal. “Como Mexico, no hay dos,” Ochoa sang, meaning, “There’s no place like Mexico.” The Santa Barbara Bowl was filled with mariachi music all of Saturday night, as bands kept the crowd alternating between dancing in the aisles with joyful cumbias and swaying in their seats to sorrowful ballads.
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The 28th Annual Santa Barbara Mariachi Festival was a celebration of the Mexican spirit, and party to honor a unique culture that, as the festival’s headliner Angeles Ochoa sang Saturday night, has no equal. “Como Mexico, no hay dos,” Ochoa sang, meaning, “There’s no place like Mexico.” The Santa Barbara Bowl was filled with mariachi music all of Saturday night, as bands kept the crowd alternating between dancing in the aisles with joyful cumbias and swaying in their seats to sorrowful ballads.
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