Making Movies

Doors 9p ~ Showtime 10p ~ 21+

Psychedelic Panamanian band Making Movies is on a mission– to reconnect with the rebellious spirit in Latin American folklore. Their music represents the culture of the Americas in a way that delivers the chills of hearing something singularly special, yet feels oddly familiar.

The Latin Grammy nominated band has collaborated with Rubén Blades, presented at major international festivals and toured alongside Los Lobos, Maldita Vecindad, Ozomatli, Hurray For the Riff Raff, Flor De Toloache, Thievery Corporation, and many more. 

In March 2024 PBS released their first live concert film and album, En La Sala, recorded at the historic Folly Theater in Kansas City. The band is currently producing AMERI’KANA TV an NEA-funded documentary series showing an alternate history of American music, furthering their mission for the world.  This year the band released XOPA: The Movie, a comedy adventure following the exploits of the group before and after mysteriously disappearing in a plane crash, as well as a new studio album, XOPITA.

The band is committed to representing their mixed identity of Black and Latino culture and has been a vocal influence in the national health conversation around music as medicine. (For more and other community impact projects, see the group’s nonprofit Art As Mentorship).
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