Selena at Sunset Station
A 20th Anniversary Celebration
In 1986, Selena Quintanilla-Perez won the Tejano Music Award for Female Vocalist of the Year, and
from that moment on her popularity grew and grew. She signed with EMI Latin in 1989, released Entre a Mi Mundo in 1992, and Amor Prohibido, one of the best-selling Latin albums in the United States, in 1994.
On March 31, 1995, her meteoric rise was cut tragically short when Yolanda Saldivar, her friend and former employee, shot and killed her in a Days Inn motel room in Corpus Christi.
But that’s not where the story ends.
In 1995, her posthumous crossover album, DREAMING OF YOU, debuted atop the Billboard 200, and then in 1997, Warner Brothers released SELENA, a biography film about her life and career starring Jennifer Lopez in the title role.
This spring marks the 20th anniversary of that film’s release, and the Alamo Drafthouse will be celebrating with several screenings across Texas, including one special weekend of outdoor screenings and parties at Sunset Station in San Antonio, the actual location for the music video shoot of Selena’s hit song No Me Queda Más.
The famous staircase at Sunset Station from Selena's music video for "No Me Queda Mas"
Fast Facts
Location:
Sunset Station in San Antonio, TX
Dates:
Friday 3/24 & Saturday 3/25
Expected Attendance:
850 tickets per night (1700 total over 2 nights)
Event Overview
Interactive Movie Party screening of SELENA preceded by a live concert with Texas’s most celebrated Selena cover band, Bidi Bidi Banda.
As guests enter the venue, they’ll start their evening
by exploring the mural and everything that’s offered
inside the Sunset Station grounds.
There will be a special photo booth set up inside the depot so fans can pose on the same stairs from the music video, while back out on the plaza, we’ll have a special live performance from Bidi Bidi Banda, Texas’s premiere all-star Selena Tribute who consistently play to packed houses around the state.
After the concert, the audience will make their way to their reserved seats inside the Lone Star Pavilion for an interactive Movie Party screening of SELENA hosted by Alamo emcees and featuring plenty of props to bring the action on screen out into the audience.