Date and Time
- Saturday, May 23, 2026 2pm - 4:30pm
Location
Yerba Buena Gardens
750 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Details
Blending the percussive Afro-Mexican tradition of son jarocho with electronic beats and cogent rhymes, Las Cafeteras have earned a global following with their infectious live performances. Emerging from an East Los Angeles community center in the mid-aughts, the group has taken their electric sound around the world, from Bonnaroo and the Hollywood Bowl to WOMAD New Zealand and the Montreal Jazz International Jazz Festival. Modern day troubadours dedicated to remixing Mexican roots music with lyrics that document stories of a community seeking to “build a world where many worlds fit,” Las Cafeteras have honed an encompassing sound infusing soul, rock and hip-hop into Afro-Mexican grooves. Busy at work on a multimedia production celebrating the legacy of Chicano rocker Ritchie Valens, Las Cafeteras honor the past by deploying traditional instrumentation like the 8-string jarana, 4-string requinto, donkey-jawbone quijada shaker and wooden platform tarima for percussive footwork. Determined to reach all audiences, Las Cafeteras sings in five distinct languages: English, Spanish, Spanglish, love and justice.
