Hog Waddle 2024 is shaping up to be the biggest and best Hog Waddle to date, as the annual concert is now a two-day event with stellar headliners scheduled to perform both days at the San Benito Fairgrounds.
The headliner for Friday, March 22, is the legendary Little Joe y La Família, while on Saturday, March 23, the “King of Cumbia” A.B. Quintanilla takes the spotlight.
In addition, Los Garcia Bros. and The Spinoffs are set to perform Friday, while San Benito’s own Madelyn Victoria, 30 X 30 Norteño and Masteño will take the stage Saturday.
General admission to this amazing event is free, but VIP tickets are available online at Eventbrite.com. Hog Waddle is a fun, family event that features plenty of delicious food, cold drinks and a full-fledged carnival that will be on site beginning March 21 and will remain at the Fairgrounds through March 30.
The event gets its name from a particularly unusual event in San Benito history. In 1914, one of the City’s pioneers marched more than 2,000 hogs up San Benito’s main thoroughfare during a parade. After someone in the crowd fired a celebratory shot into the air, the hogs scattered throughout the town. It subsequently took three days to round them all up. And while that occurrence is now a distant memory, its celebratory nature lives on with this modern-day event.
According to his online profile, Little Joe Hernández told the Stockton Record in 2015 that he was born “in a three-wall, dirt-floor garage … on a cold stormy night,” the seventh of 13 children. His father, Salvador, was known as “La Cotorra” (the parakeet) and was a troubadour. His mother, Amelia DeLeon, was a trained pianist. “My dad and aunts all played instruments and sang,” he told the Riverside Press-Enterprise (Nov. 18, 2015). “We’d go to parties that would last until three in the morning.”
Hernández got his start at 13 when his cousin, David Coronado, recruited him to play guitar for his Latinaires. The Latinaires eventually became known as Little Joe and the Latinaires. Today he is usually joined by his band La Familia. In 1992, their album, “16 de Septiembre” earned the Grammy Award for Best Mexican-American Performance.
In 2008, Little Joe once again won a Grammy for Best Tejano Album of the year for “Before the Next Teardrop Falls.” Other Grammy nominated albums include “Timeless” (1988), 1993’s “Que Paso” (1993), “Little Joe y La Familia 2000” (1999), and “Celebration of Life Vol.1 & Vol.2” (2003).
As a member of Texas’ Tejano Hall of Fame, Little Joe has been entertaining audiences around the world for more than 50 years, and has been featured on 70 albums and in countless shows. His style has been called Tejano, Tex-Mex, Norteno, Chicano, and La Onda.
Hernandez founded the Little Joe Diabetes and Prevention organization and has organized walkathons in San Antonio.
The Temple Independent School District awarded him with the school district’s first ever honorary high school diploma in October 2022. Little Joe had to leave school after 7th grade for migrant work, and all of his education afterwards was gained through experience. “He wasn’t able to finish school because he had to go pick cotton, and literally, drive his family around at 12-13 years old”, said his son, Isaac Hernandez, who is also the assistant principal at Temple High School.
Abraham Isaac Quintanilla III (born December 13, 1963), known professionally as A.B. Quintanilla III or A.B. Quintanilla, is an American record producer, songwriter and musician. Called the “King of Kumbia” (or “King of Cumbia”) due to his influence and impact on the cumbia music genre.
He is the older brother of singer Selena, known as the “Queen of Tejano Music,” having produced and written many of her hit songs throughout her career. He is also the creator and founder of the bands Kumbia Kings and Kumbia All Starz, also having produced and written their hit songs as well as performing as a member of both, and has contributed, produced and written many songs for other artists.
Along with Selena, his other sister Suzette, and his father Abraham, he became a member of Los Dinos in 1980. As a member of Los Dinos, A.B. played bass guitar, produced, and wrote songs for Selena that became successful singles such as “Como la Flor”, “Amor Prohibido” and “No Me Queda Más.” After Selena’s death, he would create the bands Kumbia Kings and Kumbia All Starz.
Quintanilla was born on December 13, 1963, in Toppenish, Washington. He is the oldest child of Abraham Isaac Quintanilla Jr. and Marcella Ofelia Quintanilla (née Samora); and the older brother of Suzette Quintanilla and the late Selena Quintanilla. Shortly after he was born, Quintanilla and his parents moved to Lake Jackson, TX, where he was raised and where his two younger sisters were born.
While living in Lake Jackson, A.B. learned to play the guitar and bass. Alongside Selena, his sister Suzette, and their father, Abraham, he became a member of the successful band Los Dinos. A.B. also became Selena’s producer.
After Selena’s highly publicized death, A.B. helped produce “Como Te Extraño” (“How I Miss You”) by Pedro “Pete” Astudillo, which was written for Selena as well as Astudillo’s late grandmother. The song earned Astudillo a Premios Lo Nuestro award for Best Song of the Year in 1996.
A.B. later resurfaced in 1999 by creating the Kumbia Kings, which mixed cumbia and pop music. The Kumbia Kings went on an international tour, had several CD releases and participated on such shows as Cristina Saralegui’s El Show de Cristina. Quintanilla also produced for such entertainers as Thalía, Alicia Villarreal, Verónica Castro and Cristian Castro.
He produced and arranged the 2004 album, A.B. Quintanilla III Presents Joe Lopez, which includes “Cuando Estoy Contigo” (“When I Am with You”) and “Soy Tan Feliz” (“I’m So Happy”), co-written by Quintanilla and Luigi Giraldo.
Quintanilla left Kumbia Kings in mid-2006. A.B., along with new members and ex-Kumbia Kings Chris Pérez (A.B.’s brother-in-law, Selena’s widower) and Pee Wee; started the group Kumbia All Starz in 2006. This new group had hits such as “Chiquilla,” “Parece Que Va a Llover,” and “Speedy Gonzales.” The Kumbia All Starz have become immensely popular in South America, especially in Bolivia, where they performed a series of concerts in 2014.
Quintanilla signed with DEL Records and reinvented the All-Stars as Elektro Kumbia in 2016. In 2017, they released a single called “Piña Colada Shot.” The band would change the name back from Elektro Kumbia to Kumbia All Starz in late 2017.
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