Performance
LADAMA is a group of four women, virtuosic musicians, composers, and educators— Lara Klaus, Daniela Serna, Mafer Bandola and Sara Lucas— from different countries and cultures of the Americas, who are sisters in song, rhythm and spirit. Harnessing music from their respective countries of origin, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and the United States, the group utilizes traditional and non-traditional instruments from across the Americas, but with a modern twist to write and produce Latin Alternative music. Joined by their musical collaborator, bassist Pat Swoboda, they released their self-titled debut album in 2017 and their follow-up album, Oye Mujer, in 2020, on Six Degrees Records. LADAMA has performed at NPR Tiny Desk, TED, the Skoll World Forum, on ESPN, and at dozens of prestigious venues and festivals around the world. In a feature on their music, NPR’s All Things Considered praised LADAMA’s “irresistible spirit and universal appeal.” LADAMA (with Lolita) will be performing live at Levitt Pavilions Denver on Wednesday June 21, at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the performance is free when you RSVP at https://www.universe.com/events/ladama-with-lolita-tickets-TCV9W6.
Exhibits
Ronald Rael’s audacious architectural imagination intersects with explorations of identity, geography, ancestry, and the future. In Mud Futures, Rael uses modern-day innovation to reimagine the 7,000-year-old technology of adobe.
Rael will be 3-D printing a large structure on the front porch of the History Colorado Center out of an adobe mixture of clay, straw and sand. With roots in Colorado’s Conejos County and as the Chair of Architecture at UC Berkeley, Real challenges us to think differently about materials, space, borders, and linear time. Visitors are invited to witness his work in progress on May 19 – 21 or come visit it after it’s completion.
Que Pasa? is compiled by La Voz Staff. To submit an event for consideration please email attractions@lavozcolorado.com with Que Pasa in the subject line by Friday at 5 p.m
