“It was an emotional conversation for him,” Meisner says. But he says, he did discuss what happened with Childress. When asked why the group believed that they were asked to stop playing Latin music when they were confronted, Meisner said that he wasn’t part of that conversation, so couldn’t speak to the exact request. “The request was not about the genre of music but we did not communicate or handle the situation appropriately on our end.”Īccording to Aparicio, the song playing at the time Childress confronted her was by Mexican cumbia legend Fito Olivares-she thinks it was “Cumbia Caliente”-which is a medium-tempo cumbia with horns and accordion.
“In preparing for the last couple hours of service at the restaurant, we wanted to switch the tempo of the music, so we asked them to end about 10 minutes early,” the statement read. In a statement released after Chulita Vinyl Club posted the video to their social channels, Meisner explained that it was the tempo of the song that created such urgency among the venue’s management, not the fact that the lyrics were in Spanish. Throughout, the staff is apologetic for what happened, but they never answer a repeated question from the group: “What was so overwhelming that you needed us to stop?” At the start of the video, another manager asks what happened regarding the group’s report that they were told not to play Latin music. Change that now.'”ĭavid Meisner, the general manager of Caroline, told Texas Monthly that the video accurately depicts the encounter. “This guy comes up to me and says in a very rude and demeaning way, ‘Hey, are you in charge of the music?’ And I say, ‘We all are, what’s up?’ And he says, ‘This hotel does not play Latin music. As the dance floor filled, Aparicio says she was approached by Michael Childress, an assistant manager at the bar. “There was a lot of cumbias, salsa… Patrons started to get up and move their tables so they could dance,” Aparicio says. They did-but near the end of the set, the mood shifted. Afterward, the DJs would take the stage again for another hour to cap off the night. After the Superfónicos, Claudia Aparicio says the personnel at the venue told the DJs to get back on stage as the audience asked for an encore. Chulita Vinyl Club had a successful first two-and-a-half hours of spinning records as the opening act for Colombian funk group Superfónicos. On Friday night, the DJ collective was performing at Caroline, the new venue inside the Aloft hotel that opened last Thursday on the corner of Seventh and Congress. But if you wanna join, you’d better hurry: the press release says that if you don’t subscribe by Tuesday, March 31 at 11:59 PM EST, “New memberships won’t be open again until the 2021 subscription year.” You can join here.ĭespite recently cancelling a pair of festival appearances due to James Hetfield’s mandatory “sobriety weekends,” Metallica have a whole mess o’ live dates scheduled for the coming months.It’s been a surprisingly emotional pasƒt couple days for both the members of Austin’s Chulita Vinyl Club-which describes itself as an “all-girl all-vinyl club for self-identifying womxn of color”-and the staff at a new restaurant and music venue in Austin.
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