Tennessee Theatre: Las Cafeteras and Making Movies

Tennessee Theatre: Las Cafeteras and Making Movies
Tue Sep 6 at 7:30pm (Doors at 6:30pm)
Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902

Born and raised east of the Los Angeles river, Las Cafeteras are remixing roots music and telling modern-day stories of Latino and immigrant lives. 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.”

Las Cafeteras is joined by Making Movies, a band that makes American music with an asterisk: because Making Movies’ sound encompasses the entirety of the Americas. It’s through this broader perspective that Making Movies crunches classic rock into Latin American rhythms — African-derived percussion and styles like rumba, merengue, mambo and cumbia — in a way that feels oddly familiar, yet delivers the invigorating chills of hearing something singularly special.

Over the course of their career, the quartet has turned heads as a Tiny Desk newcomer (with “A La Deriva”), a voice for immigrant rights (with “I Am Another You” which reached #3 on Billboard’s Latin Pop Album chart), and as a co-writer alongside salsa icon Rubén Blades (with Latin GRAMMY nominated song “No Te Calles”).

Making Movies has toured extensively, appearing with the likes of Arcade Fire, Rubén Blades, Los Lobos, Hurray For the Riff Raff, Bomba Estereo, Galactic, Flor De Toloache, and Thievery Corporation. The band’s fourth album XOPA was just released on L.A.-based label Cósmica Artists.

Tickets can be purchased at the Box Office between 6:30pm and 7:30pm on the night of the show (September 6). Please mention the code “PENNY”. Parents are also eligible for a discounted ticket rate of $10 through this promotion.

Advanced reservations required: NO
For more information, please contact: Mary Adkins, (865) 684-1200, madkins@tennesseetheatre.com
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