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Guitarfest 2010 Press Release

7th Annual Zihuatanejo International Guitar Festival Announces Line-Up

By Catherine Krantz

7th Annual Zihuatanejo International Guitar Festival, March 17- 20, 2010,  Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Mexico.

A week of guitar music in paradise, Zihuatanejo’s popular music festival that has been gathering enthusiastic fans among artists and audiences alike for seven years, comes back in 2010 with great music for a good [...]

Zihua Sailfest 2010

Zihua Sailfest — the Zihuatanejo Bay Regatta — is coming up soon and volunteers are being sought to help get it all together. There will be a volunteers meeting  at Rick’s Bar (which was for a time Zihua El Faro) on Cuauhtemoc street in downtown Zihuatanejo, on Tuesday January 19th starting at 10 a.m. If [...]

December 2009 Events

Upcoming for the rest of this month of December, 2009, as we wind down toward the end of the year, are these events in the Ixtapa Zihuatanejo area:

December 16 through 24: Mexico celebrates the Christmas season with a series of Posadas, reenactments of the journey of Joseph and Mary seeking shelter for the birth of [...]

Zihuatanejo Bay Swim

The first Zihuatanejo Cross-the-Bay swim is taking place this Saturday, December 5, 2009.

(1ra travesia a nado en la Bahía de Zihuatanejo, Guerrero)

Distance: 2.4 kms, from Playa la Ropa to Playa Las Gatas, starting 8 a.m.

Inscriptions accepted as of 1 December at the municipal sports offices and at the Unidad Deportiva de Zihuatanejo; or you can [...]

Barra Surf Team Tournament

Acapulco’s Surf Club “Team Barra” extends an invitation to surfers to sign up for the Barra Surf Team Tournament to be held at Playa Barra Vieja on Saturday and Sunday, January 10 and 11, 2009. The tournament is the 4th annual and is in honor of one of Acapulco’s best surfers, Jorge Luis Cortez Angelito [...]

December in Zihua – art, music, ruins, saints, statues, food and fireworks!

The Virgin of Guadalupe

Even though we’re in our standard just-before-Christmas lull and in general tourism is on the low side, there has been movement and many fun happenings in town lately, and over the next while there is a lot more planned, so here’s a quick run-down of the parts that I know of [...]