Corrido Del Segundo Barrio
Corrido Del Segundo Barrio

Corrido Del Segundo Barrio

Mural shows two Chicano musicians performing with regional Mexican instruments

Image Description: A mural wall placed in a park featuring various Chicano related imagery. The top left has rose colored floral accents with blue and green juxtaposed wave like structures above a cloud. Below at the far left, is a woman bathing a young boy in a tin basin next to a potted agave as he shaves his face for the first time. They are located in a housing complex next to Sacred Heart church. At the foreground two men with greying hair dressed in farm worker clothing playing corridos. The man to the center right is wearing jeans and playing an accordion. The man to the center left wears a vaquero hat with red pants while playing a blue guitar. To the far right of the image, are 3 migrants with heavy backpacks walking along train tracks near the border wall in a desert landscape into the sunset. The bottom of the mural features Aztec styled images of two people looking upwards at the various scenes prior mentioned. There is a number two at the center to represent Segundo barrio.

Area: Central / Downtown

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