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Stuart’s Opera House is excited to welcome you to the Snow Fork Event Center (home of the Nelsonville Music Festival) on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, for a FREE performance by LADAMA at the Creekside Stage, sponsored by OHIO Live! About LADAMA LADAMA is a pioneering force in the music industry’s female collectives. With a decade of groundbreaking innovation, Lara Klaus (Brazil), Daniela Serna (Colombia), and Mafer Bandola (Venezuela) lead the project by blending Latin American influences to craft a rich, dynamic sonic experience. Their music, driven by instruments like the bandola llanera, tambor alegre, pandeiro, and more, showcases their prowess as instrumentalists, composers, producers, and music mediators. Through original compositions in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, they weave together rhythm, percussion, and traditional melodies, infusing them with a contemporary flair. Experience their captivating journey through music that resonates with wild, tender, and diverse energy. LADAMA’s debut, self-titled album, released in the Fall of 2017, could not be more timely; nowadays, both Latin America and the United States are deeply in need of projects that transcend boundaries and defy norms. This is precisely what their debut album, crafted carefully on a journey through Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and New York, represents. With music composed by the members of the band, it delivers a fresh take on a myriad of traditional, Pan-American rhythms all coming together seamlessly into LADAMA’s unique blend of enthralling sounds. Reimagining South American and Caribbean styles like cumbia, maracatu, onda nueva and joropo and blending them with soul, R&B and pop, they created a new sound all their own. OYE MUJER, LADAMA’s 2nd full-length album released in the Summer of 2020, is a declaration to women and a call to humanity. Working with renowned Brazilian producer Kassin (Jorge Ben, Bebel Gilberto, Caetano Veloso), in his studio in Rio de Janeiro, the three women of LADAMA, along with their bassist and musical collaborator, Pat Swoboda, created a collection of songs sung in Spanish, Portuguese and English that channel the personal experiences of being human in the midst of global crises, unprecedented climate destruction and immigration. Having matured together since their debut, it is a bold step forward towards seamless musical and compositional unity as a band; now each “Dama” takes a turn as lead singer as the others support her as instrumentalists and arrangers. Where the first record was based on organic, roots percussion and rhythm, this one is charged, visceral and electric. Featuring collaborations with Betsayda Machado (Venezuela), Spok (Brazil), Eliot Krimsky (New York) and others, LADAMA soars as one with a fiery urgency that must be heard. LADAMA met on the road in 2014 while touring Los Angeles, Arizona, and New Mexico as part of the prestigious OneBeat Program. Between individual performances, leading youth workshops and public music-making events, Lara, Daniela, and Mafer uncovered a common dream of building communities through sound and empowering women and youth through music. LADAMA delivers an utterly unique experience as they flow from the electric to the acoustic, from Spanish to English and Portuguese, and from the high plains of Venezuela to the Colombian coast. Their art proves that borders are meaningless, transporting us to a future where the world communicates across continents and cultures through sound and story. WEATHER POLICY In the event of severe weather, the outdoor Creekside Concert will be moved from Snow Fork Event Center to Stuart’s Opera House at 52 Public Square, Nelsonville, OH 45764. We will notify the public via social media by 2 pm day of show with any venue changes. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
