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Frontera Bugalu

If you could imagine a “sound” coming from the border town of El Paso, Texas, what would it be? You might hear traditional and regional Mexican music blaring out of many car windows as you made your way down I-10 and into historic Downtown. But the sound created by the locals in the Southwest desert mostly ranges in various forms of popular music found on this side of the border. Enter Frontera Bugalu. A collaboration between accordionist/singer Kiko Rodriguez and keyboardist Joel Osvaldo, two longtime veterans of El Paso’s punk, rock and roots scene who wanted to reclaim a little bit of that Tejano music tradition that many El Pasoans seemingly forgot or left behind in the 90s. Founded in 2012 after Rodriguez’s musical project, Fuga! disbanded, Frontera Bugalu was a departure, not only for Rodriguez and Osvaldo, but for El Paso’s music scene itself