Celebrate Day of the Dead at Rattle Inn November 2, 2012

Join us for a spooky party! Drink specials, costumes, traditional music by Kiko y La Banda. A portion of proceeds benefit Futuro Fund. Futuro Fund Austin is a collective effort to engage our community through philanthropy and leadership. FuturoFund members make equal contributions to a charitable fund held by the Austin Community Foundation, and are engaged in a grant-making process through which 100% of member contributions are granted to deserving organizations making an impact in the Hispanic community.

Kiko y La Banda:
Kiko Villamizar was born in Miami to Colombian parents and was taken to the Andean city of Medellin, Colombia when he was small and raised there. He learned Latin American folk music through the oral tradition of his family and then went back to Miami to study jazz after high school. Then he began traveling the Americas collecting melodies and beats that he has formed into his own unique m ix. A fusion of afro-colombiano with reggae, and other Latin world beats thrown in. His culture, agriculture, and life stories are put into his songs as he celebrates life and Mother Earth while lamenting the violence and inequality he has seen both in Medellin and in the United States. Kiko is not only a fusion of the Andes and the Caribbean.His songs are relevant and contemporary while strongly honoring its roots.