Submission for Tejano Conjunto Festival 2023 Poster Contest now Open
San Antonio, TX– The Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio is the first and longest-running Conjunto Festival in the country and is internationally recognized as the most influential event for this beloved and popular Texas musical tradition. The highlight of the 41st Annual Tejano Conjunto Festival is the opportunity to hear the very best in Conjunto music from all across the many different styles played in Texas. The TCF will take place from May 17-21, 2023 at the historic Guadalupe Theater and Rosedale Park.
Each spring for the past four decades, the Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio has encompassed robust and influential live performances of the founders, popular performers, and heritage award winners of each genre, along with dances, workshops, Hall of Fame inductions, and other events. The festival draws an enthusiastic audience of 10,000 fans, dancers, and musicians from across Texas and the United States, as well as Mexico, Europe, and Asia. The crowd has grown massively over the years to include legions of fans who return each year to dance and celebrate conjunto culture.
The festival has become a model for many other conjunto festivals, which have appeared since it started, and is credited with highlighting the singular music and culture of South Texas Tejanos.
Each year the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center holds its Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio 2023 Poster Contest. The popular poster contest returns after a two-year hiatus and it will include larger prizes, with the top award for the contest winner of $2,000, and more opportunities for area artists and students. The top prize winner’s poster will be used for all festival marketing materials for the Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio, scheduled for May 17-21, 2023. There are no entry fees for the poster contest.
The Tejano Conjunto Festival poster contest provides opportunities for students in middle school, high school, and college to compete for the top prize alongside open and professional categories.
The theme of the posters must be “Conjunto music” and include the words “Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio 2023.” Entries are due no later than January 27, 2023 at 5 p.m. CST, and winners will be announced on February 13, 2023.
The contest winner overall and each category winner will be announced in a special session on May 19, 2023, at the Tejano Conjunto Festival at Rosedale Park, on San Antonio’s Westside, one of the birthplaces of Conjunto music.
The entry form for the Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio is available for download on the Guadalupe web page at https://guadalupeculturalarts.org/tejano-conjunto-festival/. More details about the line-up, tickets, and other information will be posted on the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center web page at https://guadalupeculturalarts.org/.