Mariachi Femenil Voces de Mexico performs live at Grand Performances in California Plaza, DTLA.

Mariachi Femenil Voces de Mexico performs live at the 11th Annual International Mariachi Women's Festival Grand Performances in California Plaza in Downtown Los Angeles.
On Saturday, July 13th 2024, Grand Performances in partnership with the The Mariachi Women’s Foundation hosted the 11th Annual International Mariachi Women's Festival, featuring a live performance by Mariachi Femenil Voces de Mexico. Mariachi Femenil Voces de Mexico was formed in 2022 by guitarrón player Cynthia Cristal Ramírez Márquez. While the group has been together for only 2 years, their accomplishments as individual musicians go back at least 15 years.
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About The Mariachi Women’s Foundation:
The Mariachi Women’s Foundation (MWF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Its primary mission is to promote access, diversity, equity, and inclusion in the performing and cultural arts.
It was established in 2014 to reverse the erasure of mariachi women’s performance, history and contributions. It recognizes and empowers mariachi women and girls as important artists in this male-dominated Mexican tradition by providing opportunities in mariachi music performance, education, and community engagement.
Dr. Leonor Xóchitl Pérez is the Founder and Executive Director of the Mariachi Women’s Foundation, the first organization to focus on the advancement of women in the male-dominated mariachi genre. She is also the founder and director of the first International Mariachi Women’s Festival which, since 2014, brings mariachi women’s groups and performers from all over the world to Los Angeles annually.. She is a leader, innovator, scholar, professor, promoter and producer who brings traditional and innovative expressions of Mexican music and dance to audiences throughout the Americas.
As a mariachi violinist, dating back to her early adolescence in East Los Angeles, she is driven by her love for mariachi music. Her mariachi teacher was Jesus Sanchez a Mexican mariachi musician and immigrant who worked as a bracero in the fields of California before he was recruited by UCLA in the 1960s to become the first native mariachi teacher in a U.S. school.
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Grand Performances' mission is to inspire community, celebrate diversity, and unite Los Angeles through music, dance, poetry, theater and more.
All of Grand Performances shows are free, outdoors, all ages and open to the public at California Plaza in the Grand Avenue Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles, next to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), The Broad and Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Founded in 1986, over the last 38 years Grand Performances has presented free live concerts featuring Stevie Wonder, Ozomatli, Kamasi Washington, Madame Gandhi, Ana Tijoux, Soulection, Aloe Blacc, Angelique Kidjo and countless others.