Las Cafeteras

Familia, welcome to the second season of Nilk's Freedom to Thrive podcast, Resistance, Justice, and Resilience.

And me, I'm your host, Hector Flores, agitator, advocate, culture worker, and co-founder of Las Cafeteras, the cutest band out of East LA.

Welcome, welcome to the conversation, where we're going to have beautiful conversations with beautiful folks.

talking about how to survive, thrive, and get through these times.

back, everybody, to Nilk's Freedom to Thrive podcast, where culture and power meet solidarity in action.

And I'm your host, Hector Flores, artist, advocate, professional disruptor, and co-founder of Las Cafeteras.

Today, we have Broadway royalty in the house.

history-making, Tony Award-winning costume designer and organizer Qween Jean is with us today.

The group reimagined this traditional music, blending Son Jarocho with hip-hop, rock, cumbia, and spoken word.

Since issuing their debut album, It's Time, in 2012, Las Cafeteras have brought their music to international audiences.

They've shared the stage with artists including Common, Lila Downs, Los Lobos, and Café Tacuba.

Las Cafeteras will perform in central Indiana on October 29th at the Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts.

The program is titled Hasta la Muerte, a multimedia theatrical production inspired by Day of the Dead, the Mexican holiday honoring deceased loved ones through music, offerings, and remembrance.

I recently spoke with musician and Las Cafeteras co-founder Hector Flores to learn more.

Let's join our conversation.

Hector, Las Cafeteras will be performing in central Indiana on October 29th at the Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts.

Welcome back to NYIC's Freedom to Thrive podcast, where culture and power meet solidarity and action.

And I'm your host, Hector Flores, artist, advocate, professional disruptor, and co-founder of Las Cafeteras.

On today's show, we are joined by Katya Grokhovsky, a Ukrainian-born, Australian-raised, New York-based artist whose provocative work explores gender and immigration.

And from NYIC's amazing team, we got senior policy counsel, Jennifer Ibanez Whitlock.

"This is kinda cool." 'Cause we're in that phase right now.

We just had Las Cafeteras in here.

Uh-huh.

Hector from Las Cafeteras come in, what, like, maybe two weeks ago.

Yeah.

And, uh, he was going over, uh, Richie Forever, the production that they've put on, and they-

This is NLOK's Freedom to Thrive podcast, where culture and power meet solidarity and action.

And I'm your host, Hector Flores, artist, advocate, professional disruptor, and co-founder of Las Cafeteras.

On today's show, we got one of the funniest cats on the internet, the king of comedy sketches.

Award-winning comedian and actor Leo Gonzalez is in the house.

I've, I've known about you for a minute, but I personally met you two years ago, Visalia, Votapalooza.

Yeah.

It was my band, Las Cafeteras-

Yeah