Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 7:30 PM

Street and Davis Performance Hall, Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre

This performance will last approximately 90 minutes.

*Run times listed here are based on information provided at this time and are subject to change.

THIS PERFORMANCE HAS ALREADY OCCURRED.

PROGRAM NOTEs

View the program for this event here.

 

"…fierce, raucous energy that crosses musical borders with abandon….joyful celebrations of immigrant storytelling and survival.”

— Chicago Reader

East Los Angeles Chicano indie-folk band Las Cafeteras has taken the music scene by storm with its infectious live performances, crossing many genres and borders along the way. With jaranas and requintos (Mexican ukulele-sized guitars) and the rhythmic percussion created by dancing on a wood floor, Las Cafeteras remixes roots music as modern day troubadours, combining Son Jarocho (Veracruz music style) with rock and a heaping spoonful of impassioned social justice.  

Born and raised east of the Los Angeles River, the group is a sonic explosion of Afro-Mexican rhythms, electronic beats, and powerful rhymes that document stories of a community seeking to “build a world where many worlds fit.”

From Afro-Mexican to Americana, from soul to Son Jarocho, from roots to rock and hip-hop, Las Cafeteras takes folk music to the future. The group sings in five distinct languages – English, Spanish, Spanglish, love, and justice… and the members believe everyone understands at least one of those languages.

Four members of East Los Angeles Chicano indie folk band Las Cafeteras pose in front of a red curtain. The three men wear navy blue suits and ties, while the one woman, in the middle, wears a rockabilly-inspired A-line floral halter dress.
The female lead singer of Las Cafeteras, a brown woman in rockabilly attire with a red handkerchief tied around her hair, sings animatedly into the microphone, the audience all around her, awash in rainbow lights.
Members of East Los Angeles Chicano indie-folk band Las Cafeteras, five brown men in navy blue suits, and one brown woman (in the middle) in a rockabilly-inspired A-line floral halter dress and black combat boots.
East Los Angeles Chicano indie-folk band Las Cafeteras performs on stage in this black and white photo. The members wear rockabilly-inspired clothes, the male lead singer sings into a microphone in the foreground.
Members of East Los Angeles Chicano indie-folk band Las Cafeteras pose around a restored matte black El Camino. In the center foreground, the lead singer holds a Mexican ukulele-sized guitar.
East Los Angeles Chicano indie-folk band Las Cafeteras performs on stage. The members wear rockabilly-inspired clothes, the male lead singer sings into a microphone in the middle foreground. The stage is lit with purple light.
Members of East Los Angeles Chicano indie-folk band Las Cafeteras pose around a restored matte black El Camino. Some members hold Mexican ukulele-sized guitars. They pose in the street in front of a exterior wall mural.
East Los Angeles Chicano indie-folk band Las Cafeteras performs on stage in this black and white photo. In the foreground, the female lead singer wears a roackbilly-inspired floral A-line halter dress, large thick gold hoops, and a large white flower tucked behind her ear. Behind her, men and women in western attire dance and sing.
Members of East Los Angeles Chicano indie-folk band Las Cafeteras pose around a restored matte black El Camino. In the center foreground, a brown man holds a pair of drum sticks. The two brown women stand in the open car doors and the remaining three brown men stand nearby wearing all black.
East Los Angeles Chicano indie-folk band Las Cafeteras performs on stage. In the foreground, the male lead singer wears a white suit. Behind him, two women in red flapper dresses dance. The stage is lit with purple and red light.
The drummer for East Los Angeles Chicano indie-folk band Las Cafeteras, a brown man in a button down shirt and hat, sits at his drum set and smiles widely in this black and white image.
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The group’s electric sound and energy has carried it around the world, playing shows from Bonnaroo to the Hollywood Bowl, WOMAD New Zealand to Montreal Jazz, and beyond. The band has performed in the good company of Mexican icons Café Tacuba, Natalia LaFourcade, Lila Downs, and Gypsy Kings; Colombian superstar Juanes; hip-hop artist Common; Los Angeles legends Ozomatli and Los Lobos; and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

This is Las Cafeteras' first performance at the Moss Arts Center.