Shirley Peterson

The Comisario's Band Shirley Peterson 1st edition

In 1992, four itinerant gray haired American musicians heading to Los Angeles are detoured by a pot seeking excursion into Mexico. Cramped into a single small jail cell they are imprisoned in a seemingly diabolical scheme, by a makeshift small town Comisario (Chief of Police) and held for four months without a clue or reason for their prolonged confinement, without trial or judgment. Eventually the four musicians learn that the Comisario has plans for fulfilling a personal aspiration, for creating an American styled Big Band, comprised of the town's uncommonly musically gifted young teenagers. The Comisario's, dream band might become a reality if he was able to coerce or convince the captive quartet into teaching the kids to play band instruments, and take them on the road to fame. The four musicians couldn't imagine such a thing as possible. They flat-out refused the idea and overture... after which the Comisario sets the captives free. While relishing their first day of renewed liberty they realized that they are totally destitute, with no hope for work and not enough money to get them back to Los Angeles, California. Reluctantly they return to the impoverished little pueblo of San Pedro, Mexico to give the Comisario's vision a chance... and to endure life, such as it might be, in a place where they would at least be sheltered, fed and no longer held as prisoners. In time... The Comisario's Band was departing for their first engagement on-the-road. During that prep time the inherent talents of the kids flourished. Their enthusiastic personalities are divulged and through flashbacks the characterizations of the four maestros, the Comisario and their respective loves and lives are disclosed. Within just a few short years the perseverance of the Comisario the mastery of the maestros and the resilience of the young musicians from a rag-tag Mexican community, participate in and are witness to the making of a seemingly impossible dream come true.