Kacey Musgraves is bringing three mariachi-playing brothers from Texas onto her stage next month, adding Antonio, Caleb and Joshua Gámez-Cuéllar to three shows in New Braunfels. The brothers will open for Musgraves from May 3 to May 5 at Gruene Hall as part of her Middle of Nowhere tour.
Tickets for the shows go on sale Wednesday, April 29, at 10 a.m. central. Musgraves announced the lineup on Instagram.
The booking puts the Gámez-Cuéllar family back in the public eye after a winter marked by arrest and release. Antonio, Caleb, Joshua and their parents were taken into custody at a scheduled court check-in in February, after the family had fled cartel members in Mexico and entered the United States through an asylum claim in 2023. They had settled in McAllen, Texas, before being released in early March.
Antonio and Caleb play in Mariachi Oro, the award-winning mariachi band at their high school, and Antonio is recognized as the top mariachi trumpet player in Texas. Joshua is also a mariachi musician. Musgraves said in March that she wanted to go an extra mile to show Mexican culture that she deeply appreciates, that she sees it, and that it matters to her.
The announcement lands amid widespread outcry in Texas over the brothers’ detention and Musgraves’ own sharp criticism of Trump. It also fits the direction of Middle of Nowhere, which is being described as a project that spotlights Tejano music and mariachi musicians. With the album arriving May 1 and the Texas shows starting two days later, Musgraves is tying the record’s message to a lineup that makes that message plain.
The question now is not whether the gesture is symbolic. It is whether Musgraves has used one of her first tour stops to turn a political and cultural statement into the center of the show itself.