Las Cafeteras
Las Cafeteras
This event occurred as part of the 25/26 Hop Presents season. This is an archived view.
This event has been canceled due to weather.
Using traditional Son Jarocho instruments like the jarana, requinto, quijada (donkey jawbone) and tarima (a wooden platform), Las Cafeteras sing in English, Spanish and Spanglish and meld styles, from rock to hip-hop to rancheras. Las Cafeteras use music as a vehicle to build bridges among different cultures and communities, and create "a world where many worlds fit."
With thanks to our Season Sponsor – Community Programming: The Jack & Dorothy Byrne Foundation.
In 2005, rooted in community & tradition, a group of students learning Son Jarocho music became known as 'Los Cafeteros,' named after the Eastside Cafe community center they helped found. They soon changed their name to Las Cafeteras to honor the feminine spirit of the group. Without intending to, they organically evolved from student-group into a performance group aimed at sharing Afro-Mexican music from Southern Veracruz, Mexico in their neighborhoods.
Las Cafeteras play music with the spirit that can only be explained through an ancient African Proverb, "if you can walk, you can dance, and if you can talk you can sing."
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Summer Hours:
Tuesday-Friday: 2-5 pm
Open one hour prior to all ticketed events at the venue of the performance.
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1 E Wheelock Street
Hanover, NH