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Launch Party! Festival de las Calaveras at Icehouse, Minneapolis
October 25, 2016 @ 9:00 pm
$8.00
Launch Party! Festival de las Calaveras
Icehouse, 2528 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis
Cover $8 || $10 || 21+ || 9 pm
Artists:
Maria Isa
Duende
Sonidero Psicotropical
DJ Yaleb Villalobos – MTM
Teresa Ortiz, Calaveras Spoken Word
Angela Citlali and Ivan Sanchez Martinez
The festival kicks off with the Launch Party at Icehouse – one of the top live music venues in the Twin Cities.
The Launch Party line-up includes Maria Isa, singer-songwriter, activist, and rapper recognized as one of the best Latinx independent artists of the nation. Duende, an experimental music project that fuses Afrolatino rhythms, gypsy rumba and jazz, founded by master percussionist Chico Chavez, will make its debut. Sonidero Psicotropical and DJ Yaleb Villalobos-MTM will spin their eclectic mixes of electro-cumbia, techno and “house.” The writer Teresa Ortiz will present original satirical poems in the “calaveras” style that are traditionally narrated in Mexico during Day of the Dead. The singer-songwriters Angela Citlali and Ivan Sánchez will perform original compositions in memory of the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico.
There will be a mini visual arts exhibition and art and multi-media projections by local Latinx artists. Magdalena Kaluza, poet and spoken word artist will MC the Launch Party. The cover charge is $8 in advance and $10 at the door. Launch Party proceeds will go towards the artists performing that evening in addition to essential festival expenses.
About the Festival:
Festival de las Calaveras is a volunteer-organized multimedia Latinx music and arts festival in its fourth year that’s centered on the traditional and contemporary celebration of Day of the Dead, an indigenous Mexican tradition which honors the memory of ancestors and departed loved ones, the duality of life and death, and the corn harvest season.
Sobre el Festival:
Festival de las Calaveras es un festival de música y artes latinas en su cuarto año organizado por voluntarios y que se centra en la celebración tradicional y contemporánea del Día de Muertos, una tradición indígena mexicana que honra la memoria de los antepasados y nuestros difuntos queridos, la dualidad de la vida y la muerte, y la temporada de cosecha de maíz.
More information about the Festival / Informes del Festival aqui:
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Don’t miss it! No se lo pierdan!
Festival Sponsors / Patrocinadores del Festival:
MN Twins Baseball Club; Trujillo Tax Services; Sonora Grill; Adelita’s Mexican Restaurant; Contreras Edin & Assoc; El Burrito Market; La Colonia Restaurant; Roaldo’s Auto Service; Maya Cuisine; Avandaro’s Salon; Fernando Perez Rivera Professional Tax; Juan Cervantes State Farm Insurance; MLatino Media/MN de Hoy; Vida y Sabor/La Prensa/New Publica; Intermedia Arts; with the collaboration of the Mexican Consulate.