2026-27 Season: Forward Motion
Sun Oct 25
Nine months of world-class jazz
This event is in the past.It took place on October 18, 2026 at Sfjazz.
Civic Center, San Francisco
🎤"a stunning voice... grounded in her Mixtec Indian roots" (LA Times)
🎵Sings in Mayan, Nahuatl, Trique & Purépecha
🍽️Dine nearby pre-show, no food servers inside hall
Lila Downs turns every concert into a gathering: intimate, fearless, deeply human. The Oaxaca-rooted icon weaves Mexican folk, jazz, and cumbia, singing in Spanish and indigenous languages alike.
Latin GRAMMY winner
Mixtec roots
Genre-blending
Indigenous languages
They recommend it:
Civic Center, San Francisco
🎤"a stunning voice... grounded in her Mixtec Indian roots" (LA Times)
🎵Sings in Mayan, Nahuatl, Trique & Purépecha
🍽️Dine nearby pre-show, no food servers inside hall
Lila Downs turns every concert into a gathering: intimate, fearless, deeply human. The Oaxaca-rooted icon weaves Mexican folk, jazz, and cumbia, singing in Spanish and indigenous languages alike.
Latin GRAMMY winner
Mixtec roots
Genre-blending
Indigenous languages
They recommend it:
Matches these interests
- Latin GRAMMY winner
- Mixtec roots
- Genre-blending
- Indigenous languages
- SFJAZZ
- Civic Center
- San Francisco
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