If you’ve ever cruised down Whittier Boulevard with the windows down and the music up, or tapped your foot to an oldie that somehow always hits just right, you’ve already felt it—the Eastside Sound. Now, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes is bringing it to the foreground with A Great Day in East L.A.: Celebrando the Eastside Sound, a new year-long exhibition opening June 28 that’s as much about music as it is about memory, movement, and cultural legacy.
And yes, there’s a free concert to go with it. Because of course there is. This is L.A., after all.
More Than an Exhibit—It’s a Cultural Reclamation
Curated by a powerhouse team of historians, musicians, and community archivists, A Great Day in East L.A. traces the genre-bending, barrio-born evolution of music in East Los Angeles—from Ritchie Valens and Lalo Guerrero to Los Lobos and the underground punk and Chicano rock scenes that followed…