Frecuencia Calentana is an eight-person band from Chicago specializing in an exciting style of Mexican dance music known as tierra caliente (literally, “hot land”). Formed in 2008, the band has played dances, parties, community celebrations and festivals throughout Chicago and the upper Midwest. Frecuencia Calentana includes Faustino Figueroa (trombone, vocals), Ignacio Valdez (lead vocals), Misael Arroyo (trombone), Oscar Sotelo (keyboards, accordion), Ricardo Nava (keyboards, tuba), Armando Luna (trombone), Jonathan Cedeño (accordion, keyboards) and Sebastian Peña (drums). Frecuencia Calentana has just finished its first CD, A Mas De Cien (More Than 100); the album’s title song is one of the band’s most popular original songs. Rooted in the southern Mexican states of Michoacan and Mexico State, tierra caliente is an updated fusion of two popular kinds of regional Mexican music—banda, a horn-based form that is itself a fusion of traditional Mexican music and German polka music, and norteño, an accordion-led genre that developed in northern Mexico, Texas and the southwestern U.S.