SummerMusic 2010 winds up tonight (Aug. 27) with a free concert by Fussible and Bostich, part of the Nortec Collective, a Tijuana, Mexico-based ensemble that fuses electronica and techno with the norteño and tambora music of northern Mexico.
The SummerMusic series is presented by the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts in partnership with Summer Sessions.
Pepe Mogt (aka Fussible) formed Nortec as a four-person collective in 1999; the collective sends out two performers for each show, and Fussible and Ramon Amezcua (aka Bostich) got the call for UC Davis.
The all-ages concert is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m., with the Quad opening at 6 p.m. for picnicking (no alcoholic beverages allowed). Admission is free and open to the public.
The Nortec Collective has released two Tijuana Sessions albums (2001 and 2005), and two other albums, Tijuana Sound Machine (2008) and Corridos Urbanos (2010), earning three Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations in the best Latin rock-alternative album and best alternative music album categories.
The genre-spanning Nortec Collective has drawn international praise from such publications as Rolling Stone, which raved about Nortec’s “updated lounge sounds for both dancing and chilling.”
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Dave Jones, Dateline, 530-752-6556, dljones@ucdavis.edu