Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff
Café TacvbaDon’t miss one of Mexico’s most prominent Rock Bands of all time: Café Tacvba as they perform their classic hits and songs from their new album.
Café Tacvba has announced a 14-day U.S. tour starting at the end of August in San Francisco, California at The Warfield.
Café Tacuba is a band from Ciudad Satélite, Mexico. The group gained popularity in the early 1990s. They were founded in 1989, and since then have had the same musical lineup of musicians.
Café Tacvba went from being a garage band to a concert act in 1989, when they joined the scene surrounding El Hijo del Cuervo, a cultural club in Coyoacán featuring writers and musicians.
As they performed in various venues around Mexico City, they were discovered by Argentinian music producer Gustavo Santaolalla, who at the time was producing albums for leading bands of the burgeoning Rock en Español movement of the time.[1] Santaolalla arranged a contract for the band with Warner Music Latina (WEA), with plans to produce its debut album himself.
Café Tacuba in turn proceeded to record their first song for commercial release, “Tamales de Iguanita,” which WEA released as part of a Christmas-themed rock en español compilation, Diciembre 25, in 1990.
You can see them play on Thursday, Aug. 29, at 9 p.m. Door opens at 8 p.m., tickets $37.50 – $52.50, at The Warfield, 982 Market St. San Francisco.
The work Seven Women debuts in Redwood City
The work Seven Women is original of Humberto Robles and John Rivers. A night at the theater where we’ll see at seven contemporary women, seven standards of what is meant by the feminine side of our days. Each one in a interior monologue perfectly exteriorized, without inhibitions or hesitates, speaks well, telling their story.
On Saturday Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. at the Veterans Metomorial Senior Center, 1455 Madison Ave. Redwood City. For more information, call 640-346-8468 or visit www.circulocltural.org, or by write to circulocultural09@ gmail.com. Must be 13-year-old or older.
5th Annual San Francisco Latino Film Festival
Cine+Mas SF Latino Film Festival in theatres and cultural centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, screening award winning and critically acclaimed documentary and feature films throughout Latin America, South America and the USA.
The audience will have the opportunity to participate in discussions with local and visiting filmmakers after many of the screenings. Films are screened in their original language with English subtitles. Opening night at the Victoria Theater, on Thursday, September 12, and the festival start on September 13, 2012, doors open 7 p.m. For more info visit www.sflatinofilmfestival.org or call 415-826-7057
