Cascada de Flores

Concert Sunday, December 13, 2:30 pm

Tickets $25

"Featuring Arwen's ravishing voice and guitarist Jorge Liceaga's supple accompaniment, Cascada de Flores brings intoxicating energy to the Latin American songbook. Playful, witty and artfully staged, the show is as charming as the music is breathtaking."
Andrew Gilbert, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News

After enchanting audiences young and old last year at Hidden Valley, Cascada de Flores are back! Cascada de Flores specializes in achingly beautiful songs from Latin America's golden age, including Cuban canciones de bolero to fill your heart to bursting, Mexican rancheras to break it, and Cuban guarachas that make you want to jump up and dance. At the heart of the music is the gorgeous voice of Arwen Lawrence and the expressive guitar of Jorge Liceaga, musical ambassadors of the music of Mexico and Cuba for fifteen years. Together they create a wonderfully lush, intimate atmosphere.

For this afternoon's performance, they've put together a conjunto featuring several pillars of the Bay Area's traditional music and Latin jazz scene, with Saúl Sierra-Alonso on leoncita and double bass, Marco Díaz on trumpet and piano, Brian Rice on percussion, Kyla Danysh on violin, Jorge on a variety of traditional guitars, and Arwen on vocals, as well as dancing and playing rhythm guitar.