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Lalo Guerrero Legacy Festival

When
Sat, Nov 7 · 7:00 PM
Venue
The Freight & Salvage
2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94704 · Map ↗
Neighborhood
Berkeley
Price
$44/$49 GENERAL ADMISSION $75 2-DAY PASS (INCLUDES ALL FEES)
Type
live_music latin_world festival
Sources
The Freight & Salvage · last seen 2026-08-28 04:17
Account Login Cart Time remaining: 00:00 Enter Promo Code Promo Code (Optional) Activate Code Promo Code View Cart 0 Your cart has expired Your order contained expired items and your shopping cart has been emptied. Close Enter Promo Code Lalo Guerrero Legacy Festival: La Doña and Mark Guerrero Special Guest: Jerry Salas of El Chicano , Saturday, November 7, 2026 8:00PM Event Summary Lalo Guerrero Legacy Festival Read More Hide The Freight's second annual Legacy Festival honors the Father of Chicano Music, Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero . Co-curated by The Freight's Director of Programming PC Muñoz and Lalo's son, recording artist Mark Guerrero , this celebration gathers modern musical icons shaped by Lalo's legacy with two nights of concerts and other activities. Lalo Guerrero (1916–2005) was a Mexican-American artist whose restless versatility spanned salsa, norteña, banda, rancheras, boleros, corridos, cumbias, mambos, cha cha chás, swing, rock & roll, and blues. A recipient of the NEA National Heritage Fellowship and the National Medal of Arts, he left a body of work that still echoes across genres and generations. Emcee: Chuy Varela La Doña La Doña is a solo artist, music educator, activist, and cultural worker from San Francisco. Born Cecilia Cassandra Peña-Govea, she began her career at age seven playing trumpet, strings and percussion in her family’s conjunto. She is a student, teacher and preservationist of Latinx traditional arts like corrido, bolero, cumbia, and mariachi. In her compositions, she combines these ancestral traditions with contemporary diasporic musics like reggaeton, hip-hop and jazz. La Doña’s live performances are grounded in ceremony and social mobilization; she and her audiences sing, dance, cry and chant together, for collective healing and political action. La Doña’s roles as a teaching artist within San Francisco and Oakland Unified School Districts via SFJazz and Community Music Center inspire and inform her work as a composer, arranger, an

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