{"id":29084,"date":"2026-04-29T13:38:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=29084"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:38:57","slug":"kacey-musgraves-taps-mariachi-brothers-detained-by-ice-to-open-texas-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=29084","title":{"rendered":"Kacey Musgraves Taps Mariachi Brothers Detained by ICE to Open Texas Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kacey-musgraves\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Kacey Musgraves;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kacey Musgraves<\/a> has tapped a trio of mariachi-playing brothers, who were detained by ICE earlier this year, to open three of her shows in Texas next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The G\u00e1mez-Cu\u00e9llar brothers, Antonio, Caleb, and Joshua, will support Musgrave May 3 to May 5 at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas. The gigs are part of Musgraves\u2019 upcoming <a data-yga=\"{\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/kacey-musgraves-takes-coachella-middle-125318123.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Middle of Nowhere;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Middle of Nowhere<\/a> tour, and tickets for the shows go on sale Wednesday, April 29, at 10 a.m. central.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The brothers, aged 12 to 18, were arrested alongside their parents at a scheduled court check-in in February. The family had fled from cartel members in Mexico and entered the United States through an asylum claim in 2023, putting down fresh roots in McAllen, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Both Antonio and Caleb are part of Mariachi Oro, the award-winning mariachi band at their high school; and Antonio is recognized as the top mariachi trumpet player in the state of Texas. Youngest sibling Joshua is also a mariachi musician.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The family\u2019s detention sparked widespread outcry in Texas against the Trump administration\u2019s deportation policy. The family was released in early March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Musgraves announced the line-up news on Instagram, sharing a poster for the upcoming shows. Aside from being a vocal Trump critic, <a data-yga=\"{\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/11\/nx-s1-5744621\/kacey-musgraves-middle-of-nowhere-dry-spell-interview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Musgraves recently told NPR;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Musgraves recently told NPR<\/a> about wanting to spotlight Tejano music and mariachi musicians on her <a data-yga=\"{\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/kacey-musgraves-album-made-during-160000647.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:new album Middle of Nowhere;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">new album <em>Middle of Nowhere<\/em><\/a>, which arrives May 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIn this modern time that we\u2019re in, I really want to go an extra mile to really show the Mexican culture that I really deeply appreciate it, that I see it, and that it matters.\u201d Musgraves said in March. \u201cUltimately, in ways that I wasn\u2019t even aware of, [has] influenced me as a person, who I am and the music that I make today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for <a data-yga=\"{\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.rollingstone.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:RollingStone's Newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">RollingStone&#8217;s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on <a data-yga=\"{\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/31XsHSx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Facebook;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a data-yga=\"{\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TkcoeG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Twitter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>, and <a data-yga=\"{\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TntOHq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Instagram;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/kacey-musgraves-taps-mariachi-brothers-214013669.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kacey Musgraves has tapped a trio of mariachi-playing brothers, who were detained by ICE earlier this year, to open three of her shows in Texas next month. The G\u00e1mez-Cu\u00e9llar brothers, Antonio, Caleb, and Joshua, will support Musgrave May 3 to May 5 at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas. The gigs are part of Musgraves\u2019 &#8230; <a title=\"Kacey Musgraves Taps Mariachi Brothers Detained by ICE to Open Texas Shows\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=29084\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kacey Musgraves Taps Mariachi Brothers Detained by ICE to Open Texas Shows\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kacey-Musgraves-Taps-Mariachi-Brothers-Detained-by-ICE-to-Open.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29086,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29084\/revisions\/29086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}