La Doña w/ Mila La Morena
Sleeping Village
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Chicago
Friday, November 15 at 10 pm CST
Reggaeton
Nightclub
Friday, November 15 at 10 pm CST
Reggaeton
Nightclub
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$18 Adv + Fees | 21+
La Doña is a solo artist, music educator, activist and cultural worker from San Francisco, CA. Born Cecilia Cassandra Peña-Govea, she began her career at age seven playing trumpet, strings and percussion in her family’s conjunto. She is a student, teacher and preservationist of Latinx traditional arts like corrido, bolero, cumbia, and mariachi. In her compositions, she combines these ancestral traditions with contemporary diasporic musics like reggaeton, hip-hop and jazz. La Doña’s live performances are grounded in ceremony and social mobilization; she and her audiences sing, dance, cry and chant together, for collective healing and political action.
La Doña’s roles as a teaching artist within San Francisco and Oakland Unified School Districts via SFJazz and Community Music Center inspire and inform her work as a composer, arranger, and band-leader. As a young, queer Latina, La Doña is concerned with representing stories not often told in the mainstream music industry, and providing amplification and audience to other young artists of color.
Mila La Morena is a captivating Chicano bi alt artist based in Chicago, known for her unique blend of Latin, Alternative, and R&B music. With a lifelong passion for songwriting that began at the age of 3, Mila's talent shines through in her evocative lyrics and soulful melodies.
Presented by Sleeping Village.
This is an 21+ event