LAS CAFETERAS

LAS CAFETERAS

The New Parish Oakland CA

FRIDAY July 12th, 2024

8:00 PM (DOORS: 7:00 PM )AGES ALL AGES

$30.00

Born in the streets of Los Angeles, Las Cafeteras are children of immigrants who are remixing roots music and telling modern day stories. They have taken the music scene by storm with their infectious live performances and have crossed-genre and musical borders. Las Cafeteras formed as a band in 2008 with the purpose of document- ing the histories of their neighborhoods through music.

As musicians, members of the band started as students of the Eastside Café, a Zapatista inspired communi-
ty space in East Los Angeles where they were influenced by the culture, storytelling, and poetic music of Son Jarocho, a traditional music from Veracruz, Mexico. Las Cafeteras means ‘the coffee makers’ in Spanish. Their namesake derives from the organization where they took classes, the Eastside Café. However, to honor women and challenge masculine language, they feminized their group name by calling themselves, Las Cafeteras, rather than Los Cafeteros. A remix of traditional Son Jarocho sounds, Las Cafeteras add Afro-Caribbean marimbol and cajón, poetry in English and Spanglish, and instruments like jarana, requinto, a donkey jawbone and a wooden platform called the Tarima.

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