Best little Latin dance band in Texas. Grupo Fantasma

“When you hear Grupo Fantasma for the first time, Austin, Tex. is not the place that immediately pops into your mind.

Maybe Miami, Los Angeles, Harlem or even New Orleans, but not the alternative rock/renegade country musical capital of the American Southwest.

To guitarist and cuatro player Beto Martinez, however, there’s no such cultural disconnect. Austin is the most natural town in the world for a hard-core Latin dance band to find a supportive base, he said over the phone, as the 11-piece Grupo Fantasma embarks on a tour of the northeast that brings them to the Lula Lounge tonight for their Canadian debut.”

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