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La Peña’s 43rd Birthday Party with La Chamba!
June 23, 2018 @ 8:30 pm - 11:59 pm
Doors open at 8:30pm / Concert starts at 9pm
$15 Advance / $20 Door
For 43 years La Peña Cultural Center has supported artists and genres before they gained wide popularity. Following this tradition, we are celebrating La Peña’s 43rd birthday party with a concert by La Chamba, a Los Angeles-based group that is blowing up and resurfacing a musical genre called “Chicha”.
La Chamba fuses psychedelic electric guitar & organs with Afro-Latin rhythms, such as cumbia, salsa, timba, rumba and other global rhythms. The group is inspired by 60’s & 70’s psychedelic Peruvian surf-cumbia genre known as “Chicha” music, popular among the working classes of Lima and the Amazon. Their sound pays homage to the vintage melodies of Peruvian Chicha music while creating a unique sound born in Los Angeles known as “Chicha Angelina.”
La Chamba has collaborated with Chicha legend, Jose Luis Carballo, who plays on La Chamba’s cover version of “Cariñito,” which was recently released on the band’s debut album, Ecos de la Selva. The album also includes tunes by Los Diablos Rojos, Los Destellos and Juaneco y Su Combo.
Within recent months, La Chamba has been featured on:
Latino USA: “How Peruvian Psychedelic Cumbia Made Its Way to L.A.” http://latinousa.org/2018/03/20/lachamba/
The LA Weekly: “How Underground Peruvian Music Changed the Sound of L.A.’s Latin Alternative Scene”https://bit.ly/2KIVWA3
COME CELEBRATE 43 YEARS OF MUSIC AND CULTURE!
We will have PARTY FAVORS, A CASH BAR & MORE to make this a memorable night!
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PLEASE NOTE:
•La Peña Cultural Center is wheelchair accesible.
•Youth under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian
•This is a standing room concert. No refunds available for this event.