(((folkYEAH!))) Presents - Y La Bamba

(((folkYEAH!))) presents Y La BambaWednesday, October 7, 2026Doors: 7pm // Show: 8pm$25 in advance // $30 day of the show21+* No Refunds | All sales are final* Avoid scammers! Only purchase tickets from moesalley.com or ticketweb.com* Tickets requested by email will be delivered 3 days prior to the event* Will Call tickets will be available at the door on the day of the event====Y LA BAMBATo declare one thematic narrative from Lucha, Y La Bambas seventh album, would be to chisel away a story within a story within a story into the illusion of something singular.Lucha is a symbol of how hard it is for me to tackle healing, live life, and be present, Luz Elena Mendoza Ramos, lead vocalist and producer of Y La Bamba, says of the title behind the album which translates from Spanish to English as fight and is also a nickname for Luz, which means light. The album explores multiplicitylove, queerness, Mexican American and Chicanx identity, family, intimacy, yearning, lonelinessand chronicles a period of struggle and growth for Mendoza Ramos as a person and artist.Lucha was born out of isolation at the advent of COVID-19 lockdowns, beginning with a cover of Hank Williams Im So Lonesome I Could Cry, and following Mendoza Ramos as she moved from Portland, Oregon to Mexico City, returning to her parents home country while revisiting a lineage marred by violence and silence, and simultaneously reaching towards deeper relationships with loved ones and herself. The album reflects another tier of facing vulnerability, as Mendoza Ramos explains, and is a battle cry to fight in order to be seen and to be accepted, if not celebrated, in every formanger and compassion, externally and internally, individually and societally. As much as la lucha is about inner work, fighting is borne from survival stemming from social structures designed to uplift dominant groups at the hands of suffering amongst the marginalized.While peeling back layers of the past to better understand the present has

Something not right here? 🐛 Report a problem with this event's details