Las Cafeteras
Adult $60/40/20 | Non-UR Student/Youth $10 | UR Credited Student - Free
Las Cafeteras delivers powerful storytelling and honors the past by electrifying traditional instruments, fusing Mexican folk with electronic dance beats. With their third studio album, A Night in Nepantla, they explore the concept of “Nepantla”, a Nahuatl word meaning "in-between" or "in the middle". It serves as a metaphor for the lived experiences of people who exist at the intersections of multiple, often conflicting cultural, ethnic, and social identities. Lead vocalist Denise Carlos reflects, “We welcome our fans into a different world, and it’s a profound experience for all of us. We create a space where we can connect, share, and celebrate our common humanity."
Born and raised East of the Los Angeles River, Las Cafeteras are remixing roots music as modern troubadours. They are a sonic explosion of Afro-Mexican rhythms, electronic beats, and powerful rhymes documenting stories of a community seeking to ‘build a world where many worlds fit.’
Las Cafeteras have 40 years of combined experience in organizing, cultural work, training facilitation, and storytelling workshops, and they have built the skills and networks necessary to use the arts as a hammer to shape the present for “a more just future”. Their work is intersectional and multimedia, and they have partnered with various social justice organizations over the past 10 years to reach the hearts and minds of their communities for just causes.