Sat, Oct 10
Y La Bamba
Writing in two languages inside one song is not a stylistic choice for everybody who does it — for some people it is simply how thinking works, and the music that comes out of that is harder to categorize and considerably more honest. Luz Elena Mendoza Ramos makes records about faith, family and being Mexican-American in the Pacific Northwest, built on folk structures that keep dissolving into something more experimental. The voice is the instrument; live it goes places the recordings only hint at. Their audience is devoted in a way that suggests the songs did real work for people. Highland Park's upstairs Masonic hall, wood floors, a balcony, a few hundred capacity. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56, a Saturday. Rooms on the eastside where this music lands are full of people who have been waiting a long time to hear their own two languages sung back at them.
Writing in two languages inside one song is not a stylistic choice for everybody who does it — for some people it is simply how thinking works, and the music that comes out of that is harder to categorize and considerably more honest. Luz Elena Mendoza Ramos makes records about faith, family and being Mexican-American in the Pacific Northwest, built on folk structures that keep dissolving into something more experimental. The voice is the instrument; live it goes places the recordings only hint at. Their audience is devoted in a way that suggests the songs did real work for people. Highland Park's upstairs Masonic hall, wood floors, a balcony, a few hundred capacity. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56, a Saturday. Rooms on the eastside where this music lands are full of people who have been waiting a long time to hear their own two languages sung back at them.
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Writing in two languages inside one song is not a stylistic choice for everybody who does it — for some people it is simply how thinking works, and the music that comes out of that is harder to categorize and considerably more honest. Luz Elena Mendoza Ramos makes records about faith, family and being Mexican-American in the Pacific Northwest, built on folk structures that keep dissolving into something more experimental. The voice is the instrument; live it goes places the recordings only hint at. Their audience is devoted in a way that suggests the songs did real work for people. Highland Park's upstairs Masonic hall, wood floors, a balcony, a few hundred capacity. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56, a Saturday. Rooms on the eastside where this music lands are full of people who have been waiting a long time to hear their own two languages sung back at them.
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