This is a great season of music in San Miguel. The 22nd Festival Internacional de Jazz & Blues is happening this week. Last night we enjoyed King Solomon Hicks, a 19-year-old guitar prodigy and singer from New York. He has been playing for 13 years. He regularly performs at the Cotton Club. It was an amazing performance with a local bass player, a keyboardist and a drummer. At the beginning and at the end of his concert, he walked around and through the audience, talking and joking while playing his guitar above and behind his head. He is amazing and has 3 CDs out, the first one cut when he was 13.
This concert was held in the Teatro Angela Peralta, a historic and restored theater in the central part of San Miguel. This is one of the most important festivals of its kind in Latin America. It was great, great fun. This is a small town - we saw people we knew.
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