Edna Vazquez @ Ventura Park

EDNA VAZQUEZ
Free Show at Ventura Park
East Portland Summer Arts Festival

Edna Vazquez is a fearless singer, songwriter, composer, and guitarist whose powerful voice and musical talent transcend the boundaries of language to engage and uplift her audience. She is a creative musical artist with a vocal range that allows her to paint seamlessly with her original material, an intersection of Mexican Tradicional, rock, pop and other genres. Edna’s passion for music and performance grew from her bicultural roots and, with songs deeply rooted in universal human emotion, she has traveled far and wide spreading her message of light, love and cultural healing.
Vazquez has grown as a musical artist and collaborator over the last years touring with Pink Martini, Solo performances currently.
She led her own band projects in the past Edna Vazquez Quartet, then became a Quintet, Rock Band No Passengers, and the latest, the Edna Vazquez Band. Vazquez also participated in the Latin Grammy’s with the all female mariachi fusion band from New York City, Latin Grammy 2017 winners, Flor de Toloache and accompanying Natalia Lafourcade that night.
In 2022, she participated in two great events, one in Canto en Resistencia (Power to the People!) in LAPhill with Davendra Banhardt, Ile, Silvana Estrada, Rodrigo Amarante, Jorge Glem, and conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. The other performance was at The Hollywood Bowl with the acclaimed pianist Lang Lang and the LAPhill, performing DESTINO (1946) A film Collaboration between Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney.
Edna Vázquez is currently expanding as a world class musician with the acclaimed ‘Little Big Band” Pink Martini and interactions with Symphonies from all over the USA, and the world, such as (France, Grece, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Budapest, London, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Israel, Canada, and Mexico) and as a Soloist.