Benefit for the Albergue Dulce Camino A.C

Thanks for your support to the Indigenous and Street Kids of Guadalajara City, Mexico


Performing: Paco Padilla and friends in Concert

Saturday, May 9
doors at 6 pm; show at 8 pm

Sunday, May 10
open house from 9 am; show at 7 pm


El Rancho Restaurant,
112 Kingsway at Broadway

Tickets in advance: $15
at the door: $ 20


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For your information:


Mexican Concert for the Indigenous and Street Kids of Guadalajara


Paco Padilla, singer, songwriter and ceramic artist from Gaudalajara, Mexico, will be performing in Vancouver on Saturday, May 9, at 8 pm and Sunday, May 10, at 12:30 and 7 pm at El Rancho Restaurant, 112 Kingsway (at Broadway). Concert is in support of the Mexican orphanage, Dulce Camino A.C.(Sweet Road). Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door.

Paco Padilla was born in 1952 in Tlaquepaque, a small town close to Guadalajara City in Jalisco State, Mexico. The original culture of Tlaquepaque was called Tlacapan, which means ‘men who make clay utensils with their hands’. Tlalic-pac means ‘over clay hills’. This early heritage is carried forward today by a number of ceramic artists, like Paco Padilla, who still calls Tlaquepaque home. “We set up the workshop in the same house in the tradition of my father.” He continues: “I have been close to ceramics all my life as my father was also an artisan. When I turned five I helped paint and decorate the pieces he created in his small workshop.”

Musician as well as ceramic artist, Paco is an ambassador of traditional Mexican songs in the tradition of Chava Flores and Piporro. In the style of the ancient troubadours, with guitar in hand, Paco has performed throughout Europe and Asia and the United States. Paco has 10 CDs to his credit and has written over 100 songs. Songs range from authentic poems of daily life to political, ecological and social commentaries.

Raul Rodriguez, Sheila Rios and Enrique Ortiz, fellow musicians from Guadalajara, will be performing with Paco Padilla at this fund-raising event.

Four years ago, Paco performed in Vancouver in support of the Fray Bartolome de las Casas Human Rights Centre in Chiapas, Mexico, founded by the former bishop of Chiapas, Don Samuel Ruiz. This time, he sets his sights closer to his own hometown of Guadalajara. Paco has often performed in aid of the Dulce Camino orphanage, inside Mexico. This is the first time he performs outside of Mexico for this worthy organization.

The Dulce Camino is a Mexican charitable foundation that works hard, with other foundations and organizations, to protect and help the street kids of Guadalajara, the majority of which are indigenous (from the Huichole and Nahua groups), and enable them to have a better life. The Dulce Camino provides food, shelter, medical attention and therapy, both to the children and often to their families as well. The Dulce Camino helps the poorest of the poor.

Please help support this worthy locally based organization to continue its fine work for the street kids of Guadalajara by attending the Paco Padilla concert. For further information or tickets please call: Javier Romero at (604) 278-8108 or