The Mariachi Women’s Festival aimed to celebrate the love of mariachi music in Japan through a performance by Tokyo’s Mariachi Samurai and Japanese mariachi singer Sawaka Katalyna. Tokyo’s Mariachi and Jarocho harpist Natsumi Imamura was to be featured and was scheduled to perform with Grupo Bella of Los Angeles. The headliners for the event were to be the two-time Grammy-winning Mariachi Divas de Cindy Shea. Unfortunately, our long-anticipated event was canceled due to the order by California Governor Newsom banning all public gatherings because of the COVID pandemic.