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Grammy Award winning rock band Jaguares to play Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom Nov. 7 with special guests Sonora Santanera and Sonora Dinamita; Tickets now on sale!

CMN and Viva Entertainment announced that Grammy Award winning Mexican rock band Jaguares will be performing at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom on Saturday, Nov. 7 (8:00 p.m. CST). The concert will also feature a performance by acclaimed tropical groups Sonora Santanera and Sonora Dinamita.

General admission tickets priced at $37 are now on sale and can be purchased by calling Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000 or online at www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets can also be purchased at the Aragon Ballroom Box Office, located at 1106 W. Lawrence in Chicago. For more information, please call 773-561-9500.

Formed in 1985, Jaguares (formally known as Caifanes), quickly made the jump from playing clandestine underground rock clubs to the big stages of Mexico, U.S. and Latin America. In 1996 the band changed its name to Jaguares. The band’s latest recording, “45” – its first studio recording in three years – was released in September 2008, and the album quickly garnered Gold status in Mexico and the U.S., and eventually earned the group its first Grammy (Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album) in February 2009. The title of the album, “45”, refers to the approximately 45 million people in Mexico who live in extreme poverty.

In ancient Mayan cosmology, the jaguar is the lord of the underworld, the powerful god whose spotted robe is the cloak that darkness wears. While the eagle finds truth in the light of the sun, the jaguar lives by the mysteries of what cannot easily be seen. Now, centuries after the conquest of Mexico, the jaguar lives on as a symbol of strength, a warrior of spirit.

The tradition of the jaguar lives on in Jaguares, the band cofounded by singer-songwriter-guitarist Saúl Hernández and drummer Alfonso André, that since the 1996 release of El Equilibrio De Los Jaguares —an album produced by Don Was that featured guest spots from Mark Isham, Billy Preston, and Flaco Jimenez—has found poetry in darkness, strength in musical mystery, and modern innovation in Mexican tradition.

Comprised of Hernández, André, and guitarist César "Vampiro" López, Jaguares are Mexican alt-rock's most durable gods, a band who can play for 120,000 fans in the Zócalo of Mexico City one week, and then light up 31,000 more in the United States when they share a bill with Morrissey. As they've shown time and time again, Jaguares can sell out massive venues like El Palacio de Deportes in Mexico and the Universal Ampitheater in Los Angeles without a new single on the radio or a new record on the shelves.



As a songwriter, Hernández speaks across the generations with warmly poetic songs that, whether they become hits or not, still take hold as meaningful soundtracks to the lives of so many, in Mexico and all over the world. Though their music is firmly rooted in Mexico, Jaguares' music has resonated with audiences throughout the United States, Central America, and South America, and in 1997, Hernández even teamed up with legendary Algerian rai singer Cheb Khaled to record the bilingual Spanish-Arabic duet "Ki Kounti."

Jaguares have released 10 albums and collaborated and/ or toured with many artists, including Morrisey, Stuart Copeland, Adrian Belew, Don Was, The Rolling Stones, David Hidalgo (Los Lobos), Mark Isham, Billy Preston, Flaco Jiménez, Tigres del Norte, Juan Gabriel, Sonora Santanera, Peter Gabriel, Live, Estopa, Red Hot Chili Peppers, among many others. (--EMI Music)