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Besame Mucho Festival

by Chronicle Staff March 5, 2024October 30, 2025

Booked like first-year Lollapalooza and staged á la ACL Fest, Circuit of the Americas’ Latin music eclipse, Besame Mucho on March 2, manifested a first for Austin and who knows where else: an alternate reality. Brown music for brown people, tens of thousands of them, of US – ustedes, nosotros – in every size and shape and skin tone, and not one dressed down for an all-star Spanish-language spectacle as deep and vast as a Hill Country night. Running 11am-11pm and listing 84 acts on four stages, the racetrack concert site still comes off as largely inhospitable. As far back as Mayhem Fest one apocalyptic August in 2013 at the then-Austin360 Amphitheater, the terrain blew a cloud of dust and grit akin to festival staging in a rock quarry. A decade hasn’t improved conditions much, but the footprint for Besame Mucho proved largely brilliant. (Read Raoul Hernandez’s full review of the one-day festival.)
Scenes from Besame Mucho at Circuit of the Americas on March 2
Fey
Fey
Fey
Scenes from Besame Mucho at Circuit of the Americas on March 2
Fey
Scenes from Besame Mucho at Circuit of the Americas on March 2
Los Enanitos Verdes
Los Enanitos Verdes
Los Enanitos Verdes
Scenes from Besame Mucho at Circuit of the Americas on March 2
Scenes from Besame Mucho at Circuit of the Americas on March 2
La Ley
La Ley
La Ley
La Ley
La Ley
Scenes from Besame Mucho at Circuit of the Americas on March 2
Molotov
Molotov
Molotov
Molotov
Molotov
Scenes from Besame Mucho at Circuit of the Americas on March 2
El Tri
El Tri
El Tri
El Tri
El Tri
El Tri
Scenes from Besame Mucho at Circuit of the Americas on March 2
El Tri
Panteón Rococó
Panteón Rococó
Panteón Rococó
Panteón Rococó
Panteón Rococó
Panteón Rococó
Panteón Rococó
Ramón Ayala
Ramón Ayala
Ramón Ayala
Scenes from Besame Mucho at Circuit of the Americas on March 2
Reik
Reik
Reik
Reik
Reik
Scenes from Besame Mucho at Circuit of the Americas on March 2
Scenes from Besame Mucho at Circuit of the Americas on March 2
Bronco
Bronco
Bronco
Bronco
Café Tacvba
Café Tacvba
Café Tacvba
Café Tacvba
Café Tacvba
Café Tacvba
Café Tacvba
Café Tacvba
Scenes from Besame Mucho at Circuit of the Americas on March 2
Scenes from Besame Mucho at Circuit of the Americas on March 2
Caifanes
Caifanes
Caifanes
Caifanes
Caifanes
Caifanes
Los Tigres del Norte
Los Tigres del Norte
Los Tigres del Norte
Los Tigres del Norte
Los Tigres del Norte
Los Tigres del Norte
Los Tigres del Norte
Los Tigres del Norte
Los Tigres del Norte

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