Based in Austin, Texas, Conjunto Los Pinkys have been performing Texas-style conjunto music for over 30 years.

The group features 

Ysidro Samilpa (accordion, vocals)

Javier Cruz (electric bass, bajo quinto, drums, MC)

Henry Tello (drums, vocals)

 Bradley Jaye Williams (bajo quinto, vocals,  accordion)

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Conjunto Los Pinkys have been making conjunto music in Austin,Texas since 1993. For over three decades, the group has performed at festivals, restaurants, cantinas, honky-tonks, corporate events, senior activity centers, weddings, anniversaries, backyard BBQ parties and church festivals throughout Central and South Texas.

Conjunto Los Pinkys have been featured at many festivals...

 

The Tejano-Conjunto Festival en San Antonio, Texas

Accordion Kings in Houston, Texas

The Narciso Martinez Conjunto Festival in San Benito, Texas

 The Rancho Alegre Conjunto Festival (Austin, Texas) 

Dia de Los Muertos in Birmingham, Alabama w/ Flaco Jimenez & Susan Torres

†Aqua Fest (Austin, Texas)

 The Johnstown Folk Festival in Johnstown, Pennsylvania​

The Berryessa Flea Market in San Jose, California

Watermelon Thump (Luling, Texas)

Rattlesnake Round-Up (Taylor, Texas)

Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival (Austin, Texas)

Hot Luck "Live Fire" BBQ Festival (Austin, Texas)

US Formula One Grand Prix 2024 in Austin, Texas.

 

The group was featured in the 2013 PBS documentary "Tardeadas"-a film about their Sunday afternoon residency at The White Horse on Austin's East Side.

 

The group has performed at many venues over the years.

†Liberty Lunch (Austin, Texas)

†Pato's Tacos​​ (Austin, Texas)​​

†Threadgill's World Headquarters (Austin, Texas)

†Las Manitas (Austin, Texas)

†Jovita's (Austin, Texas)

Little Mexico Restaurant (Austin, Texas)

†Club 71 (Del Valle, Texas)

†Slow Poke Brisket Shack (Manchaca, Texas)

La Palapa (Austin, Texas)

†La Zona Rosa (Austin, Texas)

Continental Club (Austin, Texas)

The Great American Music Hall (San Francisco, CA)

El Rio (San Francisco, CA)

The Starry Plough (Berkeley, CA)

Ashkenaz (Berkeley, CA)

Sherriff's Posse Grounds (Salinas, CA)

†Nick's Taste of Texas (West Covina, CA)

Fulton Street Festival (New Orleans, LA)

Gruene Hall (New Braunfels, Texas)

290 Flea Market (Austin, Texas)

Fiesta at Market Square (San Antonio, Texas)

La Villita (San Antonio, Texas)

†El Sol y La Luna (2 locations) (Austin, Texas)

Antone's (3 locations) (Austin, Texas)

The Broken Spoke (Austin, Texas)

†The New Chaparral (Austin, Texas)

Sons of Herman Hall (Dallas)

Scholz Garten (Austin, Texas)

Saengerrunde Halle (Austin, Texas)

Sengelmann Hall (Schulenburg, Texas)

Parque Zaragosa (Austin, Texas)

Fiesta Gardens (Austin, Texas)

Tamale House (Austin, Texas)

†Happy Days Lounge #2 (Austin, Texas)

†La Bola de Oro (Austin, Texas)

†La Esquina (Austin, Texas)

 Cisco's Restaurant & Bakery (Austin, Texas)

 †Salute (San Antonio, Texas)

 †La Tropicana (Austin, Texas)

†Casa's Night Club (San Antonio, Texas)

†Fiesta Club (San Antonio, Texas)

†Lerma's Night Club (San Antonio, Texas)

Flamingo Ballroom (Mustang Ridge, Texas)

†Seguin Ballroom (Seguin, Texas)

†The Rockin' M (Austin, Texas)

†Club 21 (Uhland, Texas)

†Capricorn Ballroom (San Marcos, Texas)

Cuauhtémoc Hall (San Marcos, Texas)

San Jose Jamaica Catholic Church (Austin, Texas)

Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church (Martindale, Texas)

Dolores Catholic Church (Montopolis, Texas)

Santa Barbara Catholic Church (Webberville, Texas)

Santa Cruz Jamaica (Buda, Texas)

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Conjunto Los Pinkys features a long-time, veteran accordion player and singer- Ysidro Samilpa, who started performing as a teenager at outdoor dances in Kyle,Texas and on Austin's famed Sixth Street in the mid-1950's. He is joined by Bradley Jaye Williams on bajo quinto and harmony voice and backed by bassist Javier Cruz and singer/drummer Henry Tello- who together bring decades of conjunto music experience to the group. The group was inducted into the Austin Chronicles' Austin Music Hall of Fame in 2015. Mr. Samilpa was inducted into the Tejano-Conjunto Hall of Fame in San Antonio in May 2022. 

 

​Band contact: Bradley Jaye Williams bradleyjayewilliams@gmail.com 512-391-0730 landline

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2024 3PM-6PM

LABOR DAY CUMBIA PARTY with 

CONJUNTO LOS PINKYS & THE POINT

The White Horse

500 Comal Street

Austin, Texas

DOORS AT 2PM

FOOD BY BOMB TACOS

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2024 4PM-6PM 

OKTOBERFEST AT LA VILLITA

w/The Conjunto Heritage Taller

418 Villita Street

San Antonio, Texas

Please make a donation to the CONJUNTO HERITAGE TALLER.

https://www.thebiggivesa.org/organizations/conjunto-heritage-taller 

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2024 3PM-6PM

SAGEBRUSH

5500 S. Congress

Austin, Texas

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2024 6:00PM-8:30PM

Central Market North

4001 North Lamar Blvd

Austin, Texas

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2024 3PM-6PM

SAGEBRUSH

5500 S. Congress

Austin, Texas

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2024 TBA

C.O.T.A.

9201 Circuit of the Americas Blvd.

Del Valle, Texas

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2024 3PM-6PM

SAGEBRUSH

5500 S. Congress

Austin, Texas​

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2024 3PM-6PM

SAGEBRUSH

5500 S. Congress

Austin, Texas

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For bookings and information contact

bradleyjayewilliams@gmail.com or 512-391-0730 no text

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YouTube videos

 

Mira Luisa @ Slow Poke Brisket Shack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWijkgJhjWw

Quiero un Hogar/Rosa Ana @ Devil's Backbone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvjuoe1yxL4

Enseñate a Perder-Dancing at the Tejano-Conjunto Festival en San Antonio 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-dra3AtMII

Enseñate a Perder-Dancing at the Rancho Alegre Conjunto Festival 2024

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h4DFPP8YJ6U

You can hear the vintage music of Isidro Samilpa, Conjunto Los Pinkys and other Texas artists at The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican & Mexican-American Music at the University of California, Los Angeles. 

https://frontera.library.ucla.edu/

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