Live Latin Music by Lila Downs at Wonder Ballroom, Portland

LILA DOWNS PERFORMING LIVE

Wednesday, September 24th

Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St.
Portland, OR 97212

Doors Open at 7 pm / Cover $22

Latin Grammy winner Lila Downs comes to Portland and performs songs
from her new Manhattan Records release, Shake Away (Sep. 2nd release
date). "Shake Away possesses an undeniable freshness that cuts a swath
through to a new Mexican-American soundscape. Potent, edgy and
sumptuously crafted, Shake Away will have Lila Downs walking all over
you," – Inside World Music.

About Lila Downs:

I was born in a small pueblo in oaxaca, this is where my umbilical cord is buried, so according to tradition i will always return to this place. my mother is a mixtec indian from san miguel el grande and my father was a north american filmaker fromcolorado springs of scottish descent. I went to school in tlaxiaco and st paul minnesota , and to highschool in oaxaca city where I began studying voice at bellas artes and Rowland heights, california.  I studied voice and anthropology at the university of minnesota and studied symbolism of the trique textiles woven by women from the trique nation in the mixtec region of oaxaca. I dropped out for a while and began writing songs about mixtec inmigrants who go to the u.s. to work in the fields and the kitchens. I met paul cohen around this time, and we started to write cumbias and other tunes together -Lila Downs

For more information about Lila and to hear her music, visit the website at www.liladowns.com