Soroche // Elena La Fulana // Leon City Sounds
Soroche // Elena La Fulana // Leon City Sounds
Fri, Feb 10, 8:30 PM
The Runaway • Washington, DC
$15 - $18
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Los Wemblers
- ALL AGES
- Presented in collaboration with Leon City Sounds and Multiflora Productions
Presented in collaboration with Leon City Sounds and Multiflora Productions’s annual Flash of the Spirit music festival series festival.
When and where
Date and time
Location
Songbyrd 540 Penn Street N.E. Washington, DC 20002
Map and directions
How to get there
Performers
Headliners
- Los Wemblers
Refund Policy
No Refunds
About this event
In 2007 Brooklyn label Barbès records released a 17-song compilation of a then ignored genre of psychedelic cumbia from Peru. That album, The Roots of Chicha, was essential in re-introducing the world to chicha music, a sound previously confined to the Amazon and the poorer neighborhoods of Lima.
Though chicha originated in the 1970s, its particular blend of psych rock, surf, Afro-Latin rhythms and indigenous melodies proved to be particularly appealing to 21st century audiences. To many, especially in South America and Mexico, it came to be seen as the missing link between rock and tropical Latin music and was a key ingredient in the cumbia revival that has swept the Americas in the past ten years.