Dúo Cascada de Flores
(USA)
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Date(s) & Time(s): Sunday May 3 (6:00 PM)
Duration: 110 mins (with intermission)
Venue: Abanico Coffee Roasters
Location: 2121 Mission St, SF, CA 94110
Ticket Information
Early Bird: $20, Gen Adm: $25, Door: $30
For the best deals, see multiple shows with a discount Festival Pass.
Artist Information
Guitarist: Jorge Liceaga
Vocalist: Arwen Lawrence
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Arwen Lawrence (voice) and Jorge Liceaga (guitar) are the original dreamers of the local music ensemble Cascada de Flores, and will present an intimate evening of original songs mixed with tasty oldies. Enjoy the Dúo Cascada de Flores as they dig into the hidden corners of the Latin American songbook and add their own creativity in form of composition and poetry. And there will surely be audience participation!
Cascada de Flores
The core members of Cascada de Flores have been re-imagining Mexican tradition for years. After falling for Mexican music as a young woman, Arwen Lawrence toured with Grammy-winning L.A. mariachi heavyweights, Los Camperos de Nati Cano, an apprenticeship that honed her skills and deepened her love for Mexico's musical language. With them, she recorded and performed in venues such as the Teatro Degollado in Guadalajara and Lincoln Center of New York. Nati always nudged her towards what she already did naturally: to sing with heart.
Jorge Liceaga grew up in Mexico City, buying his first guitar with the money he'd earned shining shoes. Self taught, he was later mentored by local legend Leonardo 'El León' Salas, a transplant from Yucatan, who taught Jorge to 'guasanguearla' (play with that special Yucatecan swing). Jorge followed his sister and found himself amongst local masters of artistic communication: The flamencos of Gitanerías. From them he received a raw and complicated education, which contributed to his special sensitivity as accompanist.
The pair founded Cascada de Flores in San Francisco, CA in 1999. They began by journeying into the hidden corners of Mexico, seeking the real stories of that hugely diverse country. Inspired by the fact that even as deep as its diversity goes, Mexico has a continuous love affair with foreign cultural phenomenon and incorporates them as if they were its own, the ensemble spends 14 years swimming in a magical place somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sea where rancheras, boleros, sones and guarachas from México, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Colombia meet.
