Kany García is bringing an ambitious U.S. tour to downtown San Jose, with a September 18 stop at the historic San Jose Civic that puts the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter in front of a hometown-sized Bay Area crowd. Doors open for an 8 p.m. show, with tickets starting at $53.50, as García works her way through a 16-date U.S. run built around her new album, Puerta Abierta.
The San Jose stop is part of a stretch of American dates that includes stops in San Antonio and Inglewood, California, as García moves her show onto bigger U.S. stages than she has played before. The tour has already drawn massive crowds abroad, pulling in more than 14,000 fans in Mexico City and 15,000 in Medellín, Colombia. The U.S. leg of the broader Puerta Abierta Tour, which spans 76 global dates according to Live Nation, kicked off Monday in Highland, California, and runs through October 4 before García closes the year with a hometown show in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in December.
A Bigger Stage, But the Same Instruments in Hand
García plans to expand her onstage instrumentation compared with previous tours. Her musical background traces back to her early training: long before she pursued Latin pop, she studied cello, voice and music theory beginning at age 13 at Puerto Rico's Escuela Libre de Música, later continuing at the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico, according to AllMusic.
The jump in scale gives the tour a different setting. Part of the show's response is sharing acoustic moments onstage with regional Mexican musicians, folding collaborative, stripped-down segments into a show designed for much bigger rooms than she is used to.
Inside the San Jose Civic's Landmark Walls
The venue hosting her South Bay date is itself a piece of local history. San Jose Civic, located in downtown San Jose, is a designated City Landmark built in 1936 in the Spanish California Mission architectural style, with a maximum general admission capacity of 3,322, according to Team San Jose. Federal Public Works funding contributed to the building's construction, and T.S. Montgomery provided the property.
The hall also happens to be well-suited to the kind of acoustic precision García is chasing on piano and guitar. In July 2020, Team San Jose installed a permanent d&b KSL loudspeaker system with ArrayProcessing optimization inside the venue, making it the first in the Bay Area equipped with the technology, per Mix Online. Team San Jose manages the city's four historic theaters alongside the nearby McEnery Convention Center.
The Album and Its Guest List
Puerta Abierta is the album behind the tour, and its songs lean on a run of high-profile duets. García wanted to work with Yuridia, and the Mexican singer appears on La Mala Era Yo, described in the Chronicle's reporting as one of the album's most popular tracks. La Culpa, a collaboration with Venezuelan band Rawayana, discusses life in the Caribbean, while the tour setlist also draws on García's recent singles with Christian Nodal (La Siguiente) and Carín León (Te Lo Agradezco).
Onstage, García has said she is focused on the here and now during this run of shows rather than looking too far ahead.
A Career Built on Grammy Recognition
García's résumé gives the tour its industry weight. Her career includes Latin Grammy recognition. Her professional recording career began in 2007 with her platinum-certified debut album, Cualquier Día, which charted, according to AllMusic, before her 2008 Latin Grammy win for Best New Artist.
Following the U.S. leg, García is scheduled to close the year with a hometown show in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in December.
Off Stage, a Focus on Steady Support
Beyond the music, the tour celebrates the region's culture.
The tour also has a personal dimension. On a tour spanning 76 dates worldwide, García brings the Puerta Abierta show to San Jose, where fans can catch her set at the Civic on September 18.
