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Santa Paula Latino Town Hall, Nueva Vista Media, and Santa Paula High M.E.Ch.A students will be bringing “El Bracero – Mariachi Opera” to the Santa Paula High School Auditorium on March 31st at 7p.m. as part of Cesar Chavez Day celebrations.

El Bracero – Mariachi Opera to be performed at Santa Paula High School on March 31

March 23, 2016
Santa Paula News

Santa Paula Latino Town Hall, Nueva Vista Media, and Santa Paula High M.E.Ch.A students will be bringing “El Bracero – Mariachi Opera” to the Santa Paula High School Auditorium on March 31st at 7p.m. as part of Cesar Chavez Day celebrations.

Set in the 1950s at the height of the Bracero program, “El Bracero” is a dynamic one-act “Mariachi Opera” which fuses mariachi music, ballet folklorico, and powerful “opera” style set pieces. “El Bracero” highlights the challenges and injustices workers faced in the U.S. and focuses on the bracero camps in Ventura County in the 1950s.

“We’re proud to bring El Bracero to Santa Paula in honor of Cesar Chavez Day,” says Lorenzo Moraza, President of Santa Paula Latino Town Hall. “El Bracero dramatically portrays the obstacles legal farmworkers faced in Oxnard, Fillmore, Santa Paula and throughout the state,” says Moraza.

“El Bracero” was written by Rosalinda Verde from Visalia, CA and made its theatre debut on January 16, 2016, at the Oxnard College Performing Arts Center. The performance was sold out and two Encore performances held on February 6, 2016 were sold out.  The play is performed in Spanish with English subtitles. 

“The Mariachi music in El Bracero is performed by Mariachi Aguilas de Oxnard and poignantly communicates the struggles encountered by the farmworkers to the audiences,” says Miguel Orozco, director and producer of the show. 

Tickets for El Bracero are now on sale at El Pescador in Santa Paula and El Pescador in Fillmore.  For more information call 805-316-5409.