The Lalo Guerrero Legacy Festival’s daytime program offers an afternoon of talks, music, listening sessions and participatory workshops devoted to the Father of Chicano Music. Rather than separating Guerrero’s songs from their history, the event explores the East Los Angeles culture, labor movements, humor and diasporic traditions that gave his work meaning.

Artists, authors, educators and historians approach that legacy from multiple angles, including a theatrical monologue, Pachuco-flavored hip-hop, a discussion of farmworker organizing and an interactive look at African influences in Chicano music-making. Together, the sessions reveal Guerrero not only as a beloved entertainer, but as a cultural connector whose work continues to open conversations about identity, solidarity and the evolving sound of Mexican American life.

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