Wed, Sep 30
Rubén Blades & Roberto Delgado Big Band with Silvana Estrada at Hollywood Bowl
Certain voices carry the weight of an entire hemisphere’s memory. Rubén Blades is one of those voices. When he sings “Pedro Navaja” — the seven-minute salsa epic about a street hustler in a Panama barrio — three generations in the audience know every word, and half of them learned it from their abuelas before they understood what the lyrics meant.
This is not a greatest-hits revue. Blades at 78 is a twelve-time Grammy winner, a Harvard Law graduate, a former Minister of Tourism of Panama, and an actor who held his own opposite Harrison Ford. He brings the Roberto Delgado Big Band — a full horn section, the kind of rhythmic precision that makes your hips move before your brain catches up. Opening is Silvana Estrada, the Mexican songwriter who won the 2022 Latin Grammy for Best New Artist and whose voice can fill a room the size of the Bowl without straining.
Under the September stars with salsa horns echoing off the hills, this is the kind of Wednesday night your parents will thank you for bringing them to.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90068.
Certain voices carry the weight of an entire hemisphere’s memory. Rubén Blades is one of those voices. When he sings “Pedro Navaja” — the seven-minute salsa epic about a street hustler in a Panama barrio — three generations in the audience know every word, and half of them learned it from their abuelas before they understood what the lyrics meant.
This is not a greatest-hits revue. Blades at 78 is a twelve-time Grammy winner, a Harvard Law graduate, a former Minister of Tourism of Panama, and an actor who held his own opposite Harrison Ford. He brings the Roberto Delgado Big Band — a full horn section, the kind of rhythmic precision that makes your hips move before your brain catches up. Opening is Silvana Estrada, the Mexican songwriter who won the 2022 Latin Grammy for Best New Artist and whose voice can fill a room the size of the Bowl without straining.
Under the September stars with salsa horns echoing off the hills, this is the kind of Wednesday night your parents will thank you for bringing them to.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90068.
This is not a greatest-hits revue. Blades at 78 is a twelve-time Grammy winner, a Harvard Law graduate, a former Minister of Tourism of Panama, and an actor who held his own opposite Harrison Ford. He brings the Roberto Delgado Big Band — a full horn section, the kind of rhythmic precision that makes your hips move before your brain catches up. Opening is Silvana Estrada, the Mexican songwriter who won the 2022 Latin Grammy for Best New Artist and whose voice can fill a room the size of the Bowl without straining.
Under the September stars with salsa horns echoing off the hills, this is the kind of Wednesday night your parents will thank you for bringing them to.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90068.
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Certain voices carry the weight of an entire hemisphere’s memory. Rubén Blades is one of those voices. When he sings “Pedro Navaja” — the seven-minute salsa epic about a street hustler in a Panama barrio — three generations in the audience know every word, and half of them learned it from their abuelas before they understood what the lyrics meant.
This is not a greatest-hits revue. Blades at 78 is a twelve-time Grammy winner, a Harvard Law graduate, a former Minister of Tourism of Panama, and an actor who held his own opposite Harrison Ford. He brings the Roberto Delgado Big Band — a full horn section, the kind of rhythmic precision that makes your hips move before your brain catches up. Opening is Silvana Estrada, the Mexican songwriter who won the 2022 Latin Grammy for Best New Artist and whose voice can fill a room the size of the Bowl without straining.
Under the September stars with salsa horns echoing off the hills, this is the kind of Wednesday night your parents will thank you for bringing them to.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90068.
This is not a greatest-hits revue. Blades at 78 is a twelve-time Grammy winner, a Harvard Law graduate, a former Minister of Tourism of Panama, and an actor who held his own opposite Harrison Ford. He brings the Roberto Delgado Big Band — a full horn section, the kind of rhythmic precision that makes your hips move before your brain catches up. Opening is Silvana Estrada, the Mexican songwriter who won the 2022 Latin Grammy for Best New Artist and whose voice can fill a room the size of the Bowl without straining.
Under the September stars with salsa horns echoing off the hills, this is the kind of Wednesday night your parents will thank you for bringing them to.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90068.
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