About this concert:
For Las Cafeteras, the GRAMMY Award-winning Los Angeles band steeped in son jarocho and other Mexican regional idioms, the Day of the Dead isn’t merely a holiday celebrating Mexican culture. It’s a creative portal into a mythic realm exploring the stages of grief and loss through the celebration of life and death. They perform their original two-act production Hasta La Muerte to mark the annual tradition, which begins the following day.

A multi-dimensional theatrical and musical performance marked by lustrous colors and sounds, Hasta La Muerte embraces the spirit of the Indigenous/Mexican practice known as Dia De Los Muertos. With mesmerizing choreography and poetry and a vibrant score of original and traditional songs, Hasta La Muerte revisits Mexican folklore to tell new stories, engage old archetypes, challenge patriarchy, and uplift the role of traditional female healers known as curanderas. A moving invitation to travel through time, rhythm and memory, Hasta La Muerte believes in the power of storytelling as a vehicle for processing grief and sharing love with those in the beyond. Love, not sadness, allows us to celebrate and connect with those who have gone, while remembering that “death is not the end, it is just the beginning.”

PERSONNEL:
Denise Carlos: vocals, jarana primera, zapateado, glockenspiel
Hector Flores: vocals, jarana tercera, zapateado
Xocoyotzin Moraza: vocals, requinto jarocho
Jasmine Lopez: vocals
Moisés Baquerio: bass
José Guadalupe Cruz Cano: drums
Dante Espinoza: dancer
Jennifer Rodriguez: dancer
Adriana Rafaela: dancer Angela Rivera: dancer