Like so many other events recently, the Rancho Alegre Conjunto music festival returns to Austin this weekend with an in-person celebration for the first time since 2019. | jerryquijano
Conjunto Puro Corazon plays during the Rancho Alegre conjunto music festival at One-2-One bar in Austin.
The music festival is going on its seventh year highlighting conjunto music, a sub-genre of the larger Tejano music genre, that features two very specific instruments. With commercialization of Tejano music in the '90s, the genre's sound became forever linked with the synthesizer . Conjunto, on the other hand, incorporates a button accordion and bajo sexto, a 12-stringed guitar.
Once a thriving element of the Austin and greater Texas music scene, conjunto music has now become a family and community tradition passed down through generations. LeMoine says the most important aspect of the event is driving home that conjunto, though quieted, is not gone. Cuellar: What we're doing is preserving a lesser known version of Tejano music. I like to call Tejano the rock music, with the synthesizers and the keyboards, where the conjunto part is accordions and bajos [sextos]. It's more of a folk music. That's where it all started. It's as important because it's Texas music. It's as important as blues and everything else that comes from Texas.
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