ABOUT THE EL VEZ MEXMAS SHOW<\/p>\n
Although musician\/ performance artist Robert Lopez got his start playing in noted LA punk bands The Zeros and Catholic Discipline, it wasn\u2019t long before he started performing as a character that would bring him notoriety for much of the rest of his life \u2013 El Vez, The Mexican Elvis. One part parody, one part tribute, and one part commentary about the Mexican-American experience; Lopez has brought levity, as well as darker insights, over the course of more than a dozen albums studded with unconventional Elvis covers like \u201cEn El Barrio\u201d (\u201cIn The Ghetto\u201d) and \u201cImmigration Time\u201d (\u201cSuspicious Minds\u201d) that are as likely to borrow licks from The King, as they are Public Image Limited, Iggy Pop, Kim Wilde, or The Jam.<\/p>\n
In what is nearly a holiday tradition, December finds Lopez again kicking off El Vez\u2019s Mex-Mas tour where he, his band, and his lovely backup singers The Elvettes channel the magic of Christmas through mashed-up and punked-up versions of classic Christmas carols including \u201cI\u2019m Dreaming of a Brown Christmas,\u201d \u201cNow I Wanna Be Santa Claus\u201d and, of course, \u201cFeliz Navidad.\u201d In a show that is at once deeply traditional, and deeply twisted, it\u2019s loaded with choreography, comedy, crazy costume changes, and giant inflatable Santas making for a holiday tradition even the scroogiest of Scrooges can appreciate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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