Las Cafeteras

Las Cafeteras is a Chicano band from East Los Angeles, California.

[1] The band started out as students of the Eastside Café,[2] a community space in El Sereno, Los Angeles, where they took Son Jarocho classes.

[3] Influenced by music from Veracruz, Mexico and eager to teach others about it, they started formally playing in 2005.

[4] Since forming, they have shared the stage with artists such as, Caifanes, Lila Downs, Juanes, Ozomatli, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

[6] Las Cafeteras' songs have themes and references that range from the Civil Rights Movement, United Farm Workers, DREAM Act, immigration reform to female homicides in Ciudad Juárez.