Lila Downs

It was a night of powerful, passionate music featuring the talents of Lila Downs. Her remarkable voice, combining operatic training and jazz chops, shifted effortlessly from sultry lower registers to an airborne falsetto. Downs, who grew up in Oaxaca and Minnesota, has lent her voice to political activism and in songs depicting everyday struggles and the plight of working people on both sides of the border. “I write about what I see occurring in the world around me.” Downs wrote in a statement, “In this world there is a lot of love and pain, corruption and altruism, comedy and tragedy, exploitation and compassion.” Thank you Arts for All and the Eccles Theatre for an evening of music and song.