Quetzal will provide one 45-minute music set. Martha Gonzalez and Quetzal Flores, Waverly parents, along with their band, Quetzal, won a GRAMMY Award for Best Latin Rock, Urban, or Alternative Album in 2013

"Quetzal is an ensemble of highly talented musicians, joined for the goal of creating good music that tells the social, cultural, political, and musical stories of people in struggle. Martha Gonzalez (lead singer, percussionist, and songwriter) calls it an "East LA Chican@ rock group," summing up its rootedness in the complex cultural currents of life in the barrio, its social activism, its strong feminist stance, and its rock and roll musical beginnings. Besides being a rock band, the group and its members participate in a much larger web of musical, cultural, and political engagement.
Quetzal’s approach to music is influenced by much more than the East L.A. musical soundscape of Mexican musica ranchera, salsa, Chicano Rock, R&B, and international popular music. For members of Quetzal, music expresses the ultimate struggle for dignity. In lead singer Martha Gonzalez’ words, "part of being in the band is having a Chicana feminist analysis. The presence of women in the group is not 'eye candy' or a tokenized gesture toward balancing any sort of gender scale: it's an honest recognition of the poetic, musical, and compositional strengths the female musicians in the community possess."

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