August 31, 2012 7:30 PM Las Cafeteras performs at Longwood Gardens

Las Cafeteras create a vibrant musical fusion with a unique East LA sound and a community-focused political message. Friday, August 31 Open Air Theatre 7:30 pm Adults: $18. admission to the gardens and concert This performance is weather permitting. About Las Cafeteras Las Cafeteras create a vibrant musical fusion with a unique East LA sound and a community-focused political message. Their Afro-Mexican rhythms, zapateado and inspiring lyrics tell stories of a community who is looking for love and fights for justice in the concrete jungle of Los Angeles. A remix of traditional Son Jarocho sounds, they add Afro-Caribbean marimbol and cajón, poetry in English and Spanglish, and instruments like jarana, requinto, a donkey jawbone and a wooden platform called the Tarima.