Ford Amphitheatre (Hollywood, CA)
The all-female, multi-cultural divas play a kicky hybrid style: traditional mariachi - spiced with drums, percussion and flute - that segues to cumbia, salsa, merengue, cha cha cha and jazz. Ballet Folklorico Ollin and L.A. Salsa Kids also perform in this richly colorful evening of music and dance.
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The 1241-seat outdoor Ford Amphitheatre is set against a backdrop of cypresses and chaparral in the Hollywood Hills. It is relatively intimate: no patron is more than 96 feet away from the stage. Music, dance, film, theatre and family events are presented during the summer months. The Ford Amphitheatre Season is a program of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
The collaboration with this incredible band began when the Mariachi Divas opened the 5th Annual Lady Jazz Concert at the Ford Amphitheatre in 2004. The questions as to why a mariachi band would be invited as the opening act for a jazz concert were answered from the opening song. By the second song, a number of seats were emptied as audience members moved into the aisles to join one of the conga lines that weaved up and down the aisles.
Mariachi Divas founder, Cindy Shea-Ceballo, has taken a traditional Mexican cultural art form and expanded it through the addition of elements from musical rhythms around the world. When this beautiful and talented band takes the stage at the Ford this summer, the audience will be treated to a style of music created by this band that is known as "ranchengue", a blend of ranchera played in merengue style.
From weekly performances at Disneyland's California Adventure, to weekly club gigs and television appearances, this band is guaranteed to deliver an evening of festive entertainment in their first full-length concert at this beautiful hillside amphitheatre.
The Salsa Dance Company called the 'L.A. Salsa Kids' specializing in grooving to the hot Latin/Caribbean sounds of Salsa, Mambo, Merengue, ChaChaCha, and Rumba will perform at the show. The performance group is composed of young energetic members, ranging in ages from 11 to 23. The L.A. Salsa Kids have been featured at many festivals, special events, parties, dinners, awards banquets, theater and dinner shows, as well as radio, TV shows and Music Videos taped in Los Angeles, Puerto Rico and Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas and New York.
Ballet Folklorico Ollin is a unique non-profit cultural organization founded in 1972 under the direction of Virginia Diediker. The continuing goal of Ollin is to preserve the folk culture of Mexico through research, education, and presentation of Mexican folk dance and music.
Born and raised in Southern California Maria Lupita dicovered her enormous passion for Mariachi Music at the very young age of 8. With her mother being from Jalisco and her father from Michoacan it came very natural to her to love mariachi music. While all most of her friends were outdoors playing, you will find Maria Lupita either at her voice lessos, violin lessons, or rehearsing for an upcoming event. For Maria Lupita now only being 12 years of age she has been invited to several very well know events including: an appearence on "Sabado Gigante" where she was accompanied by Mariachi Mexico International, The Mariachi Festival at the Orange County Fair, where she shared the stage with Mariachi Vargas and Mariachi Divas and at "Viva el Mariachi" at the San Gabriel Valley Amptheathre along side with Mariachi Sol De Mexico. Maria Lupita also had her first solo CD which will be available at the Ford. She now continues to study music and looks forward to leading L.A.,s newest all-female juvenile group, Mariachi Mini- Divas.
Although Gaby Marie Ramirez is only nine, she is already captivating audiences. Gaby began singing almost as soon as she started talking. Her formal training began at the age of six. In just three short years, Gaby has become well known throughout California, especially in the Central Valley where she lives in a small town near Fresno, CA. Gaby is also a musician and was discovered by Mariachi Divas when she began studying music with the Divas musicians in early 2005. She plays the violin, guitar and the piano. When Gaby is not performing with her local town's Mariachi you might find her touring as a guest singer with Mariachi Divas singing her heart away to crowds throughout the U.S.A.
The Instrumental Women Project is established to educate the public about the role of women in jazz, as instrumentalists; to provide opportunities for instrumentalists to showcase their talents, to develop and support music training programs for female youth and to ensure that women are recognized for their longstanding roles as master musicians in the historical and current development of the American jazz art form.
