Weekend: Fuego, Santiago, Menudo

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Kany Garcia back on tour
Palominos/Stampede teamup for San Marcos show
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There's a lot of choices in coming days for music fans, from Latin pop to salsa and Tex-Mex.

Grupo Fuego, a band that blends salsa, bachata, merengue, cumbias and more, headlines Latin Night at the elegant Sam Houston Club on Fort Sam Houston Friday night.

A relatively new group, Fuego is known for their mix of dance and tropical rhythms like salsa, cumbias, bachata, merengeue, reggaeton and cumbias.

DJ Papote is opening. $5 after 9 p.m.

Admission is free before 9 p.m. and $5 after. Details: www.fortsamhoustonwmr.com and (210) 224-2721

Salsa singer Eddie Santiago stops in at Club Rio at U.S. 281 and Bitters on Friday night. tickets are $15.

The teen pop group Menudo is back on tour and swings in through town. But this is not the same Menudo of years gone by. It's a whole new generation - José, Carlos, Emmanuel, Chris, and Monti, winners of an MTV reality contest. Menudo plays Six Flags Fiesta Texas on Thursday, June 26

Elsewhere, Ramiro Herrera headlines the Summer Knights Dance Friday night at Villia Assembly Building in a benefit for Prince of Peace Catholic Church. $18.

And conjunto fans can party down at Arturo's Sports Bar & Grill. The lineup for Friday features Max Baca y Los Texmaniacs, Eddie "Lalo" Torres, Flavio Longoria y Los Conjunto Kingz, Anita Paiz, Larry Garcia y Grupo Experiencia, Bene Medina y Conjunto Aguila, Sandy Sanchez y La Revancha, El Pavo Real, Alicia Calderon, Hermanos DeLeon, Los Low Riders, Chalito Johnson and Pepe Almanza. Arturos is located at 3310 S. Zarzamora St.

More details on weekend shows :
Concerts Calendar 6/17: Fuego, Santiago, Fiesta Noche

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