Presented by The Current’s Carbon Sound
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Music
All Ages
$20 (+taxes/fees) Advance General Admission // $25 (+taxes/fees) At The Door
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La Doña makes her first Minneapolis appearance in support of her highly anticipated debut album, Los Altos de la Soledad.
The stage name of femmeton (feminist reggaeton) pioneer Cecilia Cassandra Peña-Govea, La Doña’s music is an enchanting blend of Bay Area hip-hop, reggaeton, and traditional Mexican and Latin American musical styles, including ranchera and cumbia.
Opening the night is acclaimed Minneapolis multi-disciplinary artist XINA.
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.
La Doña was chosen as one of YouTube’s Foundry Artists (2019) and she has performed at Lollapalooza and Outside Lands music festivals. Her song, “Quién Me La Paga” was the first of the New York Times Magazine’s “19 Songs that Matter Now,” for 2020, and her EPs, Algo Nuevo and Can’t Eat Clout, have been selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as two of the best albums of 2020 and 2023, respectively.
La Doña was awarded the San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artists Grant in 2021 and was the recipient of the YBCA’s Guaranteed Income Program in 2022. La Doña is a 2023-2024 apprentice in zapateado with the California Alliance for Traditional Arts, and recipient of the East Bay Fund for Artists Grant ‘23. She is a fellow for California Creative Corps 2024. She has toured internationally with artists including Cuco, Helado Negro, Durand Jones & the Indications, and Kaina.
XINA is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Minneapolis. If you ask what she does, she'll simply say "arts and crafts," an umbrella term for her expansive roles as a singer/songwriter, dancer, choreographer, producer, director, designer and entertainer. With both hands on every aspect of the process, she creates genre-bending music with intensity and vulnerability balanced with a sophisticated mystique. By exercising her intuitive finesse across a growing body of work and into rich, inventive live performances, XINA is proving impossible to ignore.
