In 1987, Linda Ronstadt released Canciones de mi Padre, a pivotal album for the Mexican American community. The collection of traditional ranchera and classic mariachi songs immediately became a Grammy-winning, global smash hit, and with 2.5 million US sales, remains one of the best-selling, non-English language albums in the history of the US music industry. The album went Double-Platinum and Ronstadt won a Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album at the 31st Grammy Awards. Even more importantly, for a generation of Chincano/a/es, this was one of the most impactful collections of music ever produced in the United States.

Using this album as an inspiration, Canciones combines music, dance, personal narrative, broad international histories, and more to examine the role Mexican-Americans and Mexicans living in the US play in our current moment, and our unique place in the history of this country., and does so from a place of joy, love, and laughter, especially when it is hardest to do so. For us, this is the most Mexican thing we can do.

 Development History

• Spring 2022. Script Reading. Latinx Playwrights Circle. New York, NY.

• Summer 2021. Workshop. Sol Project. Brooklyn, NY.

• November 2020. “Sol Listening Party.” Online.

• December 2019. Workshop. Sol Project. New York, NY.

CANCIONES is made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and additional support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation”

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.

CANCIONES (working title) is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.