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The most iconic rock band of Mexico, the "TRI" that was born in 1968 is getting 40 years of playing, music that everybody knows, and believe it or not, every single mexican know the lyrics or at least the chorus of the big hits from them.

40 years!

And they are celebrating big way, and on the celebration way Queretaro is located, October 29 and 30th will be the date of the anniversary concert in the football (soccer) stadium "La Corregidora" in which Alex's Lora band "El Tri" will be playing with the state philarmonic orchestra, that is something worht listen, and since this is the kind of person that devotes for the music, I bet the ticket will be at a fair price.

It is becoming hard to keep track of all concerts in Queretaro, also because the "Cervantino" art festival is coming this month, and there are many other concerts and events lately.

I'm arriving from Manu Chao's concert, which was great, the state auditorium "Josefa Ortíz de Dominguez" was full, all the 7,000 seats sold, great ambient.

Well the note I'm posting is about the MTV Bridge which comes to Mexico thanks to the MTV Music Awards Latin America that are taking place in Guadalajara, this are like the third or fourth awards that take place in Mexican soil (from MTV)

In the festival are performing new bands that appear on MTV (mexican version):

- Libra
- Esto es Eso
- LEGO
- Lugo



Also in the rock area, Kinky and Zoe (mexican Rock bands) will perfom in the city "Santa María" Bullring on october the 17th

For more info and ticket you can go to eticket.com.mx

A local radio station that promotes rock bands is organizing a concert on September 5th in the nightclub "La Mulata" to enter you have to win tickets on radio and five band will be playing, only new "undiscovered" bands, that acording to RMX (the radio station) are worth to listen.

For mor info go to: www.rmx.com.mx

Yesterday the Querétaro's Rock Fest tooked place at the Santa Maria bull ring, but only from 6:00 pm to 8:00pm since a huge storm started causing the ring to flood.

So the organizers of the concert C&R and the local radio station RMX had to cancel the rest of the fest, the best part by the way, due to the flooded stage they couldn't use the microphones to paz that, there was a risk of electrocution if they use them.

The rain only afected a small part of the city, which is the part where I live, and where two concerts where in place.

But acording to the radio station the fest will continue on a different date, with more artists.

So Shakira is going to have a concert here in Queretaro, in the Corregidora Stadium, there are 30,000 tickets avaible, and Ticketmaster is selling them, the worst service ever by Ticketmaster, in Queretaro the tickets for concerts, sports and other kind of events are commonly sold by eTicket or the same people who is organizing the event, Ticketmaster never sold a ticket for an event in Queretaro before.

So, they started selling the Shakira tickets, the problem was that you have only few options, to buy the ticket and pay for receiving it in your home with a y expensive mail service like $200 pesos, or pick up your ticket in a Mix-Up music store, there are two of those stores in Queretaro, it is the cheapest option, and still will cost you $100 pesos extra, so my friend went to Mix-Up to pick up the tickets and the guy in the counter told him "we don't have any tickets here, nor the machine to print them", strange thing, so he called Ticketmaster and they told him to pick up the tickets in a Mix-Up store in Mexico City... imagine, the concert is in Queretaro, Mexico City is 3 hours from Queretaro, then you get lost in traffic while finding a Mix-Up store there!!

He complain, as many other people did, so finally the "smart guys" of Ticketmaster put a printer and terminal in the Mix-Up stores in Queretaro, before this they only had terminals in Monterrey, Mexico and Guadalajara, the biggest cities in the country, no wonder why eTicket is selling tickets in every other city in the country, they do have terminals everywhere and they charge less for the service.

To see some concerts and event that are for sale in eTicket you can go to http://www.eticket.com.mx