The DC Public Library is excited to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Live music from the MLK rooftop featuring La Marvela, and Laura Luv in partnership with Mars Art DC.
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Learn more about Mars Arts, Laura Luv, and La Marvela below.
Mars Arts D.C. is Washington Performing Arts’s signature community engagement initiative. The product of a partnership between Washington Performing Arts, Jacqueline Badger Mars, and Mars, Incorporated, Mars Arts D.C. carries out its mission of presenting and elevating the dynamic vibrancy found in the local arts community and business economy through ever-growing artist engagement and long-term communal partnerships. With programmatic elements highlighting the uniqueness and beauty across all eight wards of the District, Mars Arts D.C. offers distinct performance opportunities, artist residencies, signature education programs, and robust integration with the Washington Performing Arts main stage series, all for the benefit, enjoyment, and growth of both the artist community itself and the D.C. community as a whole.
Laura Luv is a Colombian singer-songwriter in Washington DC. She writes songs in Spanish influenced by her experiences in life and by what is happening in the world today. Her music is influenced by pop, rock, indie, folk and latin music.
La Marvela (wonderful; extraordinary in Latin) was formed in 2017 by Marly Perez, Velu Ochoa and Alison Caro, three female Colombian artists seeking a more balanced and equal gender representation in music. Encouraging four other local artists to join and create a learning space of soulful rhythms such as Bullerengue, Cumbia, Fandango e Lengua and Chalupa; the band quickly started its journey through the Latino scene in the Washington D.C. area, opening for national and international artists such as Kiko Villamizar and Kombilesa Mi; and Elena Lacayo, Interminable, Son La Lucha, La Chicha de tu Madre, Forces, DeSanguashington, Matizwave, Conjunto Bruja, Laura Love, Proyecto Piquete and Son Jarocho at the local level. Inspired by other female powerment groups such as the Network of female Drummers of Colombia (Red de Tamboreras de Colombia), Banda Dida, Batala Washington, Nidia Gongora among other artists. The band strives to defend and support domestic violence survivors, as well as opening the dialogue between ancestral music and social causes, bringing awareness of the importance of art as a way of expression to call for social change and justice while honoring the ancestral music from the Colombian Caribbean Coast Region. The verbena brought to the audience by the hands of Marly, Velu, Amy, Laura, Luisa, Janys and Alison are musical stories of a mixture of African, Indigenous and Spanish influences in the Colombian territory, this time told from a female perspective.
AGE GROUP: | Seniors | Birth - 5 | Adults | 5 - 12 Years Old | 13 - 19 Years Old (Teens) |
EVENT TYPE: | Musical Performance | Hispanic Heritage Month |