Benefit for Juntos with Son Revoltura, Spectrum & Parsa F (Fire Museum Presents)

An evening to benefit Juntos with performances from the following:

Son Revoltura:

Son Revoltura has spent the last decade cultivating space for neighbors to connect with history, songs, and each other through the multicultural Mexican folk music tradition of son jarocho. You can find members practicing this style of music and dance everywhere in Philadelphia, from street demonstrations to professional stages to public parks, if you follow the sound of strumming string instruments (jaranas) and shoes tapping on the wooden dancefloor (the tarima).

Ximena Violante, born in Mexico City and raised in Pennsylvania since age seven, co-founded Son Revoltura with Yared Portillo after they both got exposed to other forms of Mexican traditional music during college. The friends began playing jaranas after traveling to gatherings in New York and DC, where other jaraneros marched among protestors, amplifying their political messages, or hosted workshops and fandangos, like jam sessions for participants…