![]() So Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns maintains its Monday night performance schedule at the South Point as well. Many of the band’s longtime members are only available to perform together consistently on Monday nights, when bigger showroom stages in Las Vegas tend to go dark. This past September, the band, a Monday night institution of sorts at The Lounge within The Palms Casino just off the Strip for more than a half-dozen years, made its move south to the South Point, which is right on Las Vegas Boulevard but a few miles south of the Strip’s main attractions. (The night FOH attended, Santana vocalist Tony Lindsay joined the band for a few numbers.) And after a bit of good-natured cajoling from Lopez, most can be counted upon to join the 15-piece band onstage. On a regular basis, an accomplished artist - or two or three - are in the crowd, many in the same Baby Boomer/Gen-X cohort as most of the band members. Under the leadership of guitarist and bandleader Jerry Lopez, they have performed big-brass hits by Chicago, Earth Wind & Fire, Tower of Power and their own compositions, swinging back and forth from classic rock stylings to Latin rhythms for an appreciative audience that tends to skew toward a local crowd. ![]() They may be named after New Mexico’s capital, but since 1975, Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns have been based in Las Vegas (Nevada, not New Mexico). Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns Help Keep the South Point Showroom Rocking ![]()
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