Friday, October 6 in the Ballroom Marfa Courtyard

Doors: 8:30pm

Ballroom Marfa welcomes Dos Santos to Marfa for a performance in the Ballroom Marfa courtyard on Friday, October 6, 2023, in celebration of Ballroom’s 20th year anniversary and the opening of Perhaps the Truth. Doors open at 8:30 and the show is free and open to all ages.

Dos Santos is a Chicago-based alt-Latinx band made up of bandleader Alex Chávez, drummer Daniel Villarreal-Carrillo, percussionist ​Peter “Maestro” Vale, bassist Jaime Garza, and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Nathan Karagianis. 

Their sound has a foundation in traditional rhythms from across Latin and South America, among them cumbia (which originated in Colombia, influenced by Indigenous and African peoples) and chicha (an Andean fusion of psychedelic rock, cumbia, and the huayno music of the Quechua). They reconfigure these mainstays in combination with their members’ personal influences—jazz, Mexican folkloric genres, punk rock, and salsa, and psychedelia to name a few—and in the process upend stereotypes of Latine music. 

The band’s mission is to push against their own musical boundaries while also exploring themes of social justice, migration, and contemporary human struggle.