ABOUT Jenny And The Mexicats

Jenny and the Mexicats it’s a fusion of nationalities and personalities, a band that has a very particular history. The band had its beginnings in Madrid as Pachucos y la Princesa, in June 2008. It all started when Icho (double bass) invited Jenny to live in Madrid. Jenny in her 20s had come to the right place. Icho called the best guitarist he knew, Pantera a guitarist with very versatile flamenco technique, they had played together for many years in a rockabilly and punk band in their hometown in Mexico.

Pantera proposed a colleague that he played with in the world of flamenco and he played the cajon. David, an extraordinary Spanish cajon player. And that’s how they all got together. That’s how a little adventure of an English girl started and gives rise to Jenny and the Mexicats.

Their first concert was Wonderland, a small festival that generates money to help cancer research in the UK, in August 2008. The roots that this new sound carried, made Jenny start to compose a lot and so Jenny and the Mexicats started to rehearse in the place where everyone had met … a flamenco tablao, las carboneras.

Jenny no hablaba español y David no hablaba inglés, así que sólo se entendían musicalmente y con un poco de la ayuda de los dos mexicanos traduciendo. En Inglaterra Jenny and the Mexicats empezaron a llamar la atención y se dieron cuenta que habían creado algo especial.

On their return to Spain they realized that the fusion also worked very well there, so they started playing on the street and later in all the bars around Spain. After signing with a record label in England, Jenny and the Mexicats decided to choose to be independent to have more control over the band’s sound musically and to grow in a more real and natural way. This is how MEXICAT RECORDS was born.

They recorded their first album ‘JENNY AND THE MEXICATS’ in the summer of 2011 in Madrid and moved to Mexico City in 2012. With this production they managed to obtain a Gold record. This record material contains a mix of songs in Spanish and English, classics of their material such as Heaven Knows and Starting Something, as well as three hits in Spanish: Verde Más Allá, Me Voy a Ir and Flor, with which they managed to bring the name of the band to everybody attention.

In 2014 they released their second album ‘OME’ and the first single Labios was part of the soundtrack for the movie “Amor de mis Amores” directed by Manolo Caro. The album has new songs with all the Mexicat spirit and mixes great rhythms, a lot of energy and moments of sensitivity.

In Frenético Ritmo and Boulevard the Mexican influences are noticed, there is even an energetic song dedicated to their dogs Sasha and Esteban. David’s voice can be listen in songs like Duele al Caminar, Labios and Boulevard.

The last song on the album ‘Back to Basics’ demonstrates Jenny’s simplest and most emotional way of composing, alone on her guitar. It should be noted that all the art on the album was designed by Pantera.

A musical combination that mixes rhythms of jazz, rockabilly, folk, flamenco, reggae, are Veracruz, country and cumbia. Which gives Jenny and the Mexicats a unique, practically inimitable personality.

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DETAILS

• Doors open for show @ 7:00PM / Show @ 8:00PM
• STANDING ROOM SHOW | AGES: 18+
• Location: TACAW, 400 Robinson St, Basalt, CO 81621

Presented By: TACAW