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Calexico Booking Agency Profile

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Calexico is a band based out of Arizona serving music lovers a unique blend of musical styles consisting of Tex-Mex plus indie plus Americana. The band’s two founding members first played together in a band called Giant Sand. After a few different lineup changes, Calexico was born, and they recorded their first album entitled Spoke with an independent label called Hausmusik. The band’s second album, The Black Light, talked about the deserts of Arizona and northern Mexico; it was well-received by music critics. Calexico built their following by playing at festivals such as the Hurricane Festival, All Tomorrow’s Parties, and Bonnaroo. They also supported bigger names on tour such as Lambchop, Dirty Three, and Pavement, among others. Calexico introduced different elements to their music in their third album, Hot Rail, but implementing violin and horns. Since then, the band has had a prolific musical career, releasing more albums such as Feast of Wire, Carried to Dust, Garden Ruin, Algiers, and Edge of the Sun. Most recently, they released an album, “Years to Burn” with Iron & Wine. Some of Calexico’s most popular songs include, “Banderilla”, “Crystal Frontier”, “Inspiracion”, “Guero Canelo” and many more..

How to hire Calexico for an event

Learn how to hire Calexico or research availability and pricing for booking Calexico to perform at a corporate event, fundraiser, private party, social media campaign, fair or festival, tradeshow or conference, endorsement project, or hire Calexico as a guest speaker, please submit the form to our agency.

Frequently Asked Questions about booking Calexico to perform.

Many performers, actors, speakers and other talent like Calexico in certain cases will consider virtual appearances via live streaming. They perhaps may accept lower fees too. If you are seriously interested in booking Calexico or other talent shown on our site, we will research their desire and the specific fee for your live-streaming event or project request.
Calexico's current work schedule and location in relation to your event's type, date, budget, and locality will play a primary factor in the acceptance of booking Calexico for your party. As long as your funding is commensurate with the price range to book Calexico, CTI will propose your event to the official agency representing Calexico. After we consult with them, we will provide a personal and accurate quote that includes: final costs, availability, and actual interest in being hired for your specific event or party.
CTI can give you the accurate Calexico booking price once we submit your event details to their camp. "How much does it cost to book Calexico for an event?" is a frequent question we get. The final Calexico booking price is contingent on many variables and the booking fee we may show is based on a range derived from our past experience with what will Calexico charge for an event. An example fee to book Calexico is in the starting range of $40,000-$74,999. However, any recent popularity change would cause a price fluctuation well beyond this example. Also, their speaking fee might be different than the fee shown for the cost to perform or to just appear. Popularity, career stage, along with current demand will cause fluctuations in their speaking price as well. The final booking price may be more than what is shown, but you should at least have a budget within that range for them to consider an appearance, performance or speaking engagement.
CTI negotiates on behalf of professional event planners and talent buyers for paid appearances! We cannot give out direct contact information of the Calexico agent or help distribute fan mail, personal messages, gifts, requests for free appearances, or donations of time. The Calexico manager and agent will only work with us if we present them with funded offers for their client to work your event.
There is low probability to book Calexico for a party with anything substantially less than the published booking cost price range. We will negotiate with the Calexico agent on your behalf if your funding is in place. By not having funding ready then it will more difficult to book Calexico, because they get many offers to work events that are at or above asking price. It is also important to consider the travel costs when researching the Calexico booking fee, as additional expenses like this, as well as an entourage of staff and equipment, are not necessarily built-in to the booking fee range shown. If your budget does not factor that in, then there is no benefit for them to want to be hired. We do not personally speak for Calexico, but in our experience in booking talent for over 25 years, this is generally the outcome of inadequate funding.
Type
Performer
Style
Folk
Range
Folk, Folk-Indie, Latin, Latin-Rock En Espanol, Latin-Tejano, Male, Age Group-30's-50's,
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