Y La Bamba: Latino Folk Music Mini Concert | Amoeba SF

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Sunday, August 28, 2016
Amoeba Music: Free In-Store Mini Concerts

Portland’s Y La Bamba celebrates their new album, Ojos Del Sol, with a live performance and signing at Amoeba SF. Purchase your copy at Amoeba to get it signed after their set.

Throughout the collection, Y La Bamba frontwoman Luz Elena Mendoza returns to themes of searching and metamorphosis. On one level, this is born from the Y La Bamba frontwoman’s continuing exploration of her identity as Mexican woman. Both of Mendoza’s parents grew up in Mexico—Luz was born in San Francisco, then brought up in a strict Catholic household in Southern Oregon.

She spent her childhood summers playing in the orchards of California’s San Joaquin Valley with her cousins, and it was there that she soaked up the melodies and stories that were being told through traditional folk songs with three-part harmonies. These are sounds that remain a vital building block of the songs on Ojos Del Sol, an album which she says represents “a celebration of family and community.”

 

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