Los De Esta Noche @ Salute

Los de esta Noche is a relatively new band here in San Antonio. I, although only guessing, assume they may have formed over the summer. Los de esta Noche played this past saturday at Salute after a march from UTSA's 1604 campus down to the Main Plaza in an effort to raise awareness for the DREAM Act, a legislation allowing illegal immigrants that are either attending school or in the military to stay in the United States without the threat of deportation but rather the opportunity to pursue citizenship, granted they were brought here as children. Alongside this march across town this group of activists, many students at UTSA, are on a hunger strike, vowing to not eat until Senator Hutchison will meet with them and they are allowed to voice their opinions to her about why she should vote for the DREAM act. The event at Salute was to raise the notion of standing up for something, whether it was a professors right to teach what he liked, as the event was initially for or to fight for the DREAM Act this night was meant for activism and charity. So Los De Esta Noche performed because some members were participating in the hunger strike.

Anyway the band, I feel, doesn't have a set genre although they sang in Spanish that was really the only consistent aspect of their songs. Their genres were all over the place much the DJ before them that was playing everything from Michael Jackson to Celia Cruz back to back, playing old school hip hop then followed it with jazz or Britney Spears, he might has well followed it with Britney Spears. Well the band, of course, has some politically charged lyrics since they are a politically active band. Tonight they are playing with a band called Karma which is another spanish singing politically active band that focuses on immigration injustices. Karma sings about such issues like children holding cells where children are kept in prison like facilities while awaiting deportation in central texas.

Esta Noche unlike Karma is singing politically charged songs but wants the crowd to dance and get into the music. Yes it is one thing to sing about something your passionate about, but some people just want to dance. So I appreciate their efforts to make both kind of people appreciate their music.

I have been thinking about this review for quite some time. It's taken me about a week and a half and that's how long this hunger strike has been going on. I feel it is an important issue and hope everyone is already aware of it. I know my review is still incomplete but I hope you check out the issues. I hope the band gets more facebook friends. and check out Salute on N. St. Mary's! It's a really cute little place, they take credit cards. and is locally owned. 21+ only