1-2:45 p.m. Panel: “Chicanas in the East L.A. Music Scene”
Featuring musicians Alice Bag of the Bags, Martha Gonzales of Quetzal, Lysa Flores, and Professor Michelle Habell-Pallan. This panel showcases the story of the women who rock and forged a place for women’s voices in LA punk music scenes of the 1970s and 1980s and the subsequent starring role of Chicanas in the East LA music scene of the 1990s and 2000s up to the present. As active musicians today these mujeres are sembrando future sounds and scenes. An evening concert will follow later that evening.
7:30-10pm Concert: “Chicanas in the East L.A. Music Scene”
In a historic collaboration, three generations of Chicana musicians come together to celebrate and acknowledge the central role of women in the making of the East Los Angeles sound. Alice Bag of the influential punk band the Bags, Teresa Covarrubias lead singer of the Brat—one of the first Chican@ punk bands, and Martha Gonzales of the break out East L.A. band Quetzal join forces and perform together for the first time on stage at the CSULA Music Hall. They will be backed up by an all–female band that will include Gloria Estrada, guitarist for La Santa Cecilia, percussionist Caitlin Moss, and Vaneza Calderón on bass. Opening the night will be Lysa Flores, another famed Chicana musician from East L.A., in a collaboration with East LA Taiko for a ground breaking experimentation of Chicana Rock and Japanese Taiko.