LAS CAFETERAS
October 18, 2024 | 7:30 PM
Camp Concert Hall
PHOTO: YULISSA MENDOZA
Thank You
THIS PRESENTATION OF
LAS CAFETERAS
IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF Dewitt Fund for the Arts
THANKS TO OUR 2024-25 MODLIN ARTS PRESENTS SEASON SPONSORS & COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Louis S. Booth Arts Fund
E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation
A. Dale Mayo Fund
H. G. Quigg Fund
Tucker-Boatwright Festival
Norman and Eleanor Leahy
William and Pamela O'Connor
Specific projects are supported in part by the
Welcome
At Modlin Center for the Arts, we are committed to providing the University of Richmond campus and our broader community with the best in diverse, thoughtprovoking, and captivating performances. Each season is cultivated with our attention to showcasing artists who provide insight into our shared humanity. At the University of Richmond, we pledge to you—our patrons and partners, on campus and in our region—that the arts will provide broad access to rich voices, creative passion, and unforgettable experiences.
Paul Brohan, Executive Director
PHOTO: YULISSA MENDOZA
Fall 2024
P Ticketed: Paid
F Free: Tickets Required
F Free: No Tickets Required
Modlin Arts Presents
Department of Theatre and Dance
Department of Music
World Premier
Modlin Commission
September
David Esleck Trio Thu 5 Sep 7:30pm
Family Weekend Concert Fri 13 Sep 7:30pm
Neumann Lecture on Music: Robert Fink Mon 16 Sep 7:30pm
What Belongs to You, an opera for tenor and chamber orchestra Thu 26 Sep 7:30pm Sat 28 Sep 7:30pm
What Belongs to You : Panel Discussion with Creative Team Fri 27 Sep 7pm
October
Stop Kiss
Thu-Sat 3-5 Oct 7:30pm
Sun 6 Oct 2pm F
Circa, Duck Pond
Thu 10 Oct 7:30pm P
Las Cafeteras
Fri 18 Oct 7:30pm P
Family Arts Day: Latin Ballet of Virginia, Fiesta del Sol
Sun 20 Oct
Art Activities 1pm Show 3pm F
Keith Phares, baritone
Thu Oct 24 7:30pm F
Master Class:
Keith Phares, baritone
Fri Oct 25 TBD F
Wagner & Kong Duo: Christoph Wagner, cello, Joanne Kong, piano
Fri 25 Oct 7:30pm F
14th Annual Celebration of Dance
Fri 25 Oct 7:30pm F
Step Afrika! Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence
Sat 26 Oct 7:30pm P
Fall Choral Concert
Sun 27 Oct 3pm F
The Soul Rebels
Thu 31 Oct 7:30pm P
November
Tessa Lark (violin), Joshua Roman (cello), and Edgar Meyer (double bass)
Fri 8 Nov 7:30pm
Jazz & Contemporary Combos Wed 13 Nov 7:30pm
Third Practice Festival
Fri 15 Nov 7:30pm Sat 16 Nov 2pm, 7:30pm
Popular Music Ensemble Tue 19 Nov 7:30pm
Jazz Ensemble with guest saxophonist Dr. Dan Puccio Wed 20 Nov 7:30pm
Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo, El Arte del Bolero Thu 21 Nov 7:30pm
The House That Will Not Stand
Thu-Sat 21-23 Nov 7:30pm Sun 24 Nov 2pm
Global Sounds Sun 24 Nov 3pm
Wind Ensemble Mon 25 Nov 7:30pm
December
Chamber Ensembles
Mon 2 Dec 7:30pm
University Symphony Orchestra Wed 4 Dec 7:30pm
Cécile McLorin Salvant Fri 6 Dec 7:30pm
51st Annual Festival of Lessons and Carols Sun 8 Dec 5pm, 8pm
Spring 2025
P Ticketed: Paid
F Free: Tickets Required
F Free: No Tickets Required
Modlin Arts Presents
Department of Theatre and Dance
Department of Music
World Premier
Modlin Commission
January
BODYTRAFFIC
Fri 24 Jan 7:30pm
February
Manual Cinema, Frankenstein Sat 1 Feb 7:30pm
Ronald Crutcher, cello Sun 2 Feb 3pm
Richard Becker, piano Wed 5 Feb 7:30pm
Lab Project: The Woman in Black Thu-Sat 6-8 Feb 7:30pm Sun 9 Feb 2pm
Billy Childs Quartet with Sean Jones, The Winds of Change Fri 7 Feb 7:30pm
Leyla McCalla Thu 13 Feb 7:30pm
Documentary Film Screening: The Sound of Santiago by Dr. Mike Davison and Ed Tillett Wed 19 Feb 7:30pm
Third Coast Percussion with Zakir Hussain Fri 21 Feb 7:30pm
University Dancers
40th Anniversary Concert Fri-Sat 28 Feb-1 Mar 7:30pm Sun 2 Mar 2pm
March
Kardeş Türküler
Sat 1 Mar 7:30pm
Doris Wylee-Becker, piano
Sun 2 Mar 3pm
Anzû Quartet
Wed 5 Mar 7:30pm
Kronos Quartet with Peni Candra Rini
Fri 21 Mar 7:30pm
Tanya Tagaq
Thu 27 Mar 7:30pm
April
Twyla Tharp Dance with Third Coast Percussion
Sat 5 Apr 7:30pm
Global Sounds Sun 6 Apr 3pm
Jazz & Contemporary Combos
Wed 9 Apr 7:30pm
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Fri 11 Apr 7:30pm
Spring Choral Concert
Sun 13 Apr 3pm
Wind Ensemble
Mon 14 Apr 7:30pm
Popular Music Ensemble
Tue 15 Apr 7:30pm
Urinetown
Thu-Sat 17-19 Apr 7:30pm Sun 20 Apr 2pm
Chamber Ensembles
Mon 21 Apr 7:30pm
University Symphony Orchestra
Wed 23 Apr 7:30pm
Cuban Spectacular: From Mambo to Motown Thu 24 Apr 7:30pm
MODLIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS
LAS CAFETERAS
Tonight’s performance will last about 90 minutes, without intermission.
ABOUT THE BAND
Las Cafeteras have taken the music scene by storm with their infectious live performances and have crossed genre and musical borders. Their electric sound & energy has taken them around the world playing shows from Bonnaroo to the Hollywood Bowl, WOMAD New Zealand to Montreal Jazz, & beyond!
Born and raised east of the Los Angeles river, Las Cafeteras are remixing roots music and telling modern day stories. Las Cafeteras create a vibrant musical fusion with a unique East LA sound and positive message. Their AfroMexican beats, rhythms, and rhymes deliver inspiring lyrics that document stories of a community seeking love and justice in the concrete jungle of Los Angeles.
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 add a remix of sounds, 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’.
They’ve performed in the good company of Mexican icons Caifanes, Lila
PHOTO: JP
Downs, Colombian superstar Juanes, Los Angeles legends Ozomatli, folk/indie favorites Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and Talib Kweli.
LA Times described Las Cafeteras as “uniquely Angeleno mishmash of punk, hip-hop, beat music, cumbia and rock … live, they’re magnetic.”
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Denise Carlos, MSW (She/Her/Ella) is a lyricist, lead vocalist, jaranera and teaching artivist for the East L.A. band Las Cafeteras, who have increasingly gained national recognition for their vibrant musical fusion of Afro-Mexican/ East L.A. sounds and socially-conscious message. Featured on Democracy Now!, Denise and Las Cafeteras utilize music as a means for marginalized communities to heal, claim space and re-tell their own stories through a power-lens.
Denise is a proud Chicana daughter of Mexican immigrants. She was born and raised in (South East) Los Angeles. Denise holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from California State University, Los Angeles with an emphasis on women and children and a Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work from Loyola University, Chicago where she focused her career in community mental health.
Before fully committing herself as a professional musician and dancer, Denise served as the Coordinator of the Gender & Sexuality Resource Center at CSULA for 6 years where she provided counseling services and programs around Gender-identity, feminism, ethnic identity, and assisted in increasing powerful spaces for LGBTQ students on campus.
As an artivist, Denise has dedicated her 15 years as an internationally touring artist in developing critical thought around community feminisms, Chicana identity, and building with various communities of color through dance and musical expression. All while dancing Mexican Folklórico professionally since she was 15 years old.Denise offers authentic explorations of wellness, storytelling and movement as a form of liberation, for self and community.
Hector Flores is an LA based artist using song, film and storytelling to elevate, shift and shine light on the narrative of BIPOC communities over the last 10 years
as a Musician and Cultural Worker. He is also an Artistic Director and CoFounder of Las Cafeteras.
The eldest of 6 children, Hector was raised in East Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley with parents born of Indigenous and Mexican roots. He graduated from Cal State Long Beach and before transitioning to a career as an artist, he was an Organizer for over 10 years in South and East LA.
The second born child of immigrant parents from Jalisco, Mex., Jose Guadalupe Cruz Cano grew up in Oxnard, CA. His interest in music was sparked in 6th grade by seeing his future middle school’s concert band perform and immediately joined the percussion section. His first drum kit came in high school after seeing some friends play at a family party. Over the years he would go on to be part of several other local bands before becoming one of the founding members of Las Cafeteras in 2006. He dedicates most of his time now to music production, recording, songwriting and regularly collaborating with other musicians and producing other artists. Jose earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Los Angeles and started several businesses before dedicating himself to music full time. Outside of music he is an advocate for entrepreneurship, home ownership and good financial planning. Sustainable living, social justice, mindfulness, good health, the outdoors, art, and boxing are some of his passions. He currently resides in Oxnard, CA where he owns and operates his own studio.
Moisés Baqueiro is the musical director and bass player for East LA’s darlings, Las Cafeteras. Born and raised in Mexico City, Moisés comes from a lineage of musical pioneers.
Moisés migrated to the US in 1991, enrolled in ESL classes upon arrival, and a year later started attending Fullerton College where he studied music theory and composition. In 1994, he bought his first instrument, a bass guitar, and immediately immersed himself into the Roc en Español scene of Los Angeles, becoming one of its primordial characters and pioneers.
In 2001 he joined seminal bilingual/bicultural band Los Abandoned, the same year he got the ASCAP award for best Latin rock band Satélite. Baqueiro is also the founder and creator of LA’s premier Cumbia band El Conjunto Nueva
Ola and the Smiths/Morrissey mariachi tribute group El Mariachi Manchester. In 2015 he was hired to direct the house band for Mexican Comedian Franco Escamilla on Hispanic television network Estrella TV.
In 2019 Hector Flores and Baqueiro had a conversation that began a musical collaboration. The topic: an idea that sets Oaxaca, Mexico in a 60’s rock and roll utopia. That song was “Oaxaca Love Song 2”, which Baqueiro produced.
Jorge Mijangos is a multi instrumentalist, master Son Jarocho musician & luthier. Born in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico Jorge began playing music at the age of 5. He has since performed throughout the Americas at esteemed venues such as The Walt Disney Concert Hall, Santa Barbara Bowl as well as the NHCC. He currently lives in Ventura CA with his wife and newborn son where he teaches youth music & builds custom Son Jarocho musical instruments.
Jesus Gonzalez Ramirez was born on December 25, 1979 in Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexico, of Mexican parents who were also born in Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexico. Don Chucho y Doña Chela educated Jesus at Francisco I Madero elementary where he received his first basic musical training with the flute as his first instrument. At the age of eight his grandfather Marcelino taught him his first lines on a guitar of a famous son jaroho, initiating his beginnings and love for the folkloric music of the region. In middle school, Jesus joined the school’s musical group, playing lead guitars, leading the orchestra, and playing the tololoche. At the age of 15 he started his studies of classical piano and guitar. At the age of 16 he joined a local rock band, launching his professional career. At 20, Jesus took on a graduate degree in popular harmony, composition, and counterpoint playing jazz with renowned people of the state in jazz festivals of the port of Veracruz.
Not fully content with so many musical phases, Jesus decided to migrate to the United States, establishing himself in Los Angeles, California, where he has worked with various local and international bands as a performer and session musician. These experiences have given Jesus a vision for production and the creative process in many areas such as pop, rock, norteno, cumbia, jazz, and folk, allowing him to be part of productions in genres from heavy metal to the regional and traditional music of his homeland. This is how he was called to Las Cafeteras, now collaborating in songs including their new song “Oaxaca Love Song 2”.
Modlin Arts Presents
FAMILY ARTS DAY: LATIN BALLET OF VIRGINIA, FIESTA DEL SOL
Sun 20 Oct 2024
Alice Jepson Theatre
THIS FREE, FAMILY-FRIENDLY EVENT FEATURES FREE ART ACTIVITIES WITH UR MUSEUMS, FOLLOWED BY A CELEBRATION OF THE CULTURE AND TRADITIONS OF THE CARIBBEAN THROUGH DANCE.
STEP AFRIKA!
THE MIGRATION: REFLECTIONS ON JACOB LAWRENCE
Sat Oct 26 2024 Carpenter Theatre at Dominion Energy Center
STEP AFRIKA! USES A STUNNING BLEND OF DANCE STYLES TO TELL THE STORY OF NORTHERN MIGRATION. THEY WILL BE JOINED BY LOCAL RICHMOND ARTISTS THE LEGENDARY INGRAMETTES!
THE SOUL REBELS
Thu 31 Oct 2024
Camp Concert Hall
THIS EIGHT-MEMBER COLLECTIVE COMBINES THE NEW ORLEANS BRASS TOP-NOTCH MUSICIANSHIP WITH SONGS CELEBRATING PEACE, LOVE, AND SOUL.
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