YOUR CULTURAL PASS / NYC

First Fridays ft. Mariachi Reyes & Linda Paúla Marcos

Join us Fri. Nov. 6th at 7pm for an evening with family mariachi band Mariachi Reyes and singer-songwriter Linda Paúla Marcos, including a preview of her upcoming album Humané. First Fridays at The People’s Forum is a monthly concert series curated and co-presented by Artists Against Apartheid, featuring artists on the cutting edge of culture whose work speaks to the political and social moment. Each show is a live, intimate, and immersive experience—a space where music & art are understood as tools in the struggle for collective liberation. This month, we’re bringing two acts to the TPF stage for a one-night-only celebration of Latin American music. Mariachi Reyes is a family who have played mariachi together their whole lives. They carry the tradition forward as a family through performance and their presence on social media. Linda Paúla Marcos’ voice and words have a deep and viscerally tender resonance that arrests the listener into reflection, while evolving the tapestry of contemporary Latin American music rooted right here in Lenapehoking (New York City). Marcos’ music seamlessly harkens to towering legacies of legendary nueva canción and folk icons like Mercedes Sosa, Chabu