Every year, though, one of my favorite events of the weekend is unofficial: the fiesta-adjacent Mariachi Festival at the Santa Barbara Bowl, playing for five hours of high-grade mariachi this Saturday, August 8. The five-hour spectacular also includes the ever-popular Mariachi Los Camperos, Mariachi Nuevo Mujer 2000, Ángel Mendoza, Alessandra Gutierrez, and Kaylanie Barrera. Viva La Mariachi festival! But among other MAW doings last week, some of the memorable moments came “off-campus,” in Santa Barbara, proper. The jazz beat goes on in Santa Barbara, in syncopated waves.