¡Viva el Arte!: QUITAPENAS

The ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! season continues with QUITAPENAS! The band was formed around their shared love of dance rhythms from the Tropical Afro Latin diaspora. Quitapenas means “to remove worries.” Everybody has a “pena,” and the mission of QUITAPENAS is simple: to make you dance and leave you without a worry. The group is made up of first generation sons of immigrant parents from Guatemala and Mexico. They borrow aesthetics from the radical 60s, 70s, and 80s. Each song echoes a remix of history and invites one to engage in the liberating evenings of Angola, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, and beyond.