La Linea - The London Latin Music Festival

07/08/2024

So shocked and saddened to hear of the tragic death of Raymi Willka Saldana Rojas. A hugely talented young musician and spiritual presence who performed for Como No & La Linea Festival with his parents Kanti Quena and Phaxsi Coca as Sagrada Familia and with Lokandes. Impossible for them to bear this sadness without the support of the community in London. Our thoughts are with you always.

A crowdfunding campaign to help the family: https://gofund.me/e591e29e

05/06/2024

🇲🇽🕺 We are excited to announce a rare London show for Mexican Institute Of Sound with a full band, celebrating 20 years of invention.

🪩 Mexico City-based producer Camilo Lara, aka Mexican Institute of Sound, creates irresistible beats for the global dance floor. Cumbia is just one ingredient but its flavour rubs off on everything else in the mix.

🎵 Camilo’s eclectic global appeal is reflected in the artists who have asked for his remix magic: Metallica, Run the Jewels, Beck, Beastie Boys, Morrissey, Placebo, Interpol , Don Letts, Madness, Julieta Venegas, Tony Allen, Babasonicos, Hermitude, Amadou & Mariam, Sofi Tukker.

Book now: https://www.comono.co.uk/live/mexican-institute-of-sound/

Presented by x Como No.

04/06/2024

Don't miss!

3 weeks to go!
Havana Música (Dance Edition) welcomes Haila Maria Mompie and her orchestra direct from Havana to London's The Jazz Cafe.
One of the world’s best soneras, Haila makes a rare appearance in the UK with her female band bringing the authentic passion of Cuban music.
The evening begins with a free dance class at 7:30pm with Yanet Fuentes, star of BBC's You Think You Can Dance, and dancer for Rihanna and Shakira and a set from London’s best Cuban music selector, DJ Javier.
Book now: https://www.comono.co.uk/live/haila-mompie-y-su-orquesta/

🇨🇺🇬🇧 Faltan 3 semanas!
Havana Musica (Dance edition) le da la bienvenida a Haila Maria Mompie y su orquesta directamente desde La Habana.
🇨🇺 Una de las mejores soneras del mundo, Haila viene a dar un show muy especial en el Reino Unido con su banda femenil trayendo la pasión autentica de la música cubana.
🕺 Esta gran noche, comenzará con una clase de baile gratis a las 7:30pm con Yanet Fuentes, estrella de la BBC ‘You think you can dance’, bailarina de Rihanna y Shakira y un set del mejor DJ de música cubana DJ Javier.

Entradas ya a la venta en nuestro 🔗 de perfil.

09/05/2024

As the curtain closes on we take a look back at some of the highlights of the festival over the last 24 years.

Como No established La Linea in April 2001 and began the first year with a bang with four sold out shows in the Southbank Centre.

The first festival had quite a Cuba focus with four of the five headliners from the island and reflected the huge global interest in Cuban music at the time. The exception was LA’s Ozomatli who opened the festival in a doubleheader with Orishas The Best - Como No had presented both bands separately before but that opening night was a great statement of intent for new, young Latin Music in the twenty-first century.

A particular festival highlight was the worldwide premiere for , playing his ground-breaking World Circuit Records album live for the first time, on an epic night which began with the UK debut for Mexico’s Kinky and ended with a sound system set from Richard Blair’s Sidestepper net Sound System.

Also at our first groundbreaking festival were Omara Portuondo (with an opening set from TotoLaMomposinaOficial) and Jesus Alemany’s Cubanismo, supported by Vocal Baobab.

28/04/2024

25/04/2024

EN - We are looking for you!
We seek a dynamic, efficient and organised Operations and Reporting Manager to join Como No & La Linea - The London Latin Music Festival . We need you to support our newly appointed Director as we take the organisation into its next stage.
This is an amazing opportunity to work with the UK's leading Latin music promoter.
Deadline: Thursday 9 May 8 am
Download the Job Description and How to Apply here: https://www.comono.co.uk/work-with-us/

ES -¡Te estamos buscando!
Buscamos un(a) Operations and Reporting Manager dinámico(a), eficiente y organizado(a) para unirse a Como No & La Linea. Te necesitamos para apoyar a nuestra recién nombrada Directora mientras llevamos a la organización a su siguiente etapa.
Esta es una oportunidad increíble para trabajar con el principal promotor de música latina del Reino Unido.
Fecha límite: Jueves 9 de Mayo 8 am
Descarga la descripción del puesto y como aplicar aquí https://www.comono.co.uk/work-with-us/

PT - Estamos procurando você!
Buscamos um(a) Operations and Reporting Manager dinâmico(a), eficiente e organizado(a) para se juntar à Como No & La Linea. Precisamos que você apoie nossa recém-nomeada Diretora para levar a organização à próxima etapa.
Esta é uma oportunidade incrível de trabalhar com a promotora de música latina líder no Reino Unido.
Prazo: Quinta-feira, 9 de maio 8am
Baixe a descrição do cargo e como se candidatar aqui: https://www.comono.co.uk/work-with-us/

24/04/2024

Como No & La Linea are proud to announce the appointment of our new Director Elena Beltrami. She takes over from Andy Wood who established Como No in 1986 and La Linea in 2001. Elena brings a wealth of experience to the organisation having worked for over two decades in the music industry as a Promoter and Festival Programmer. Her expertise extends across an array of genres and her appointment signals the organisation’s strong commitment to remain at the forefront of the Latin music landscape.

The new appointment comes as the organisation becomes a not for profit as part of its ongoing relationship with Arts Council of England as a National Portfolio Organisation since April 2023. Andy Wood is moving to the non-executive board of the organisation.

Elena & Andy will work in tandem over the next three months of transition.

23/04/2024

🔥 And we come to the ‘fin’ of with the great (sold out!) tearing the roof off with their incredible energy, it really didn’t feel like a regular Monday night, it was a La Linea Monday night! It felt like Chico Science was in the house. 🔥

Thanks to .vyzor for a great opening set

A massive thank you/gracias/obrigado to every single one of you for supporting Latin Music, we can’t wait to bring you back in 2025.

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22/04/2024

Step forward the hardest working woman in Latin Music at last week - 🔥🎺🔥🎺
She wins this year’s award for most gigs in La Linea.

You might have caught her playing with , or Latinas of London - sometimes all on the same day!

If you’d like to see her play before then check her own project 🔥🔥🔥

22/04/2024

Magical afternoon with and with guest in a sold out yesterday. Such intensity and precision as the longtime collaborators traded tunes for a transfixed audience.

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21/04/2024

🇧🇷 MONDAY! We close eith at marking 3 decades of musical resistance.

Standing tickets are sold out, but, you can still get in by booking one of the very last few tables upstairs in the restaurant.

Book now: https://www.comono.co.uk/la-linea/nacao-zumbi-2/

21/04/2024

Great night in profundo SE London with .sofi in partnership with our friends 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Thanks for the perfect opening set.


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21/04/2024

Thank you for a magical evening the vibes, the musicality and the hermanidad oozed from the stage as the four ColombiLondoners and their stellar band performed to a sold out venue. 🇨🇴 💛💚💙💜🩵


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20/04/2024

🔥 Now this felt historic… & . Julio Ernesto Estrada passed the eternal flame of Latin Music and his mighty repertoire to a new generation of London Latino musicians. Love, respect and admiration filled the room on stage and in a rap, sold out audience that spanned the generations. If you were there then you know, and if you weren’t there then it was a show you might still find yourself claiming to have been at in years to come. Viva La Musica Latina!

Thanks to for setting the tone perfectly with his opening set.

20/04/2024

Wow ! ❤️
Whilst across town rolled back the years Eda Diaz played a spellbinding UK debut set of her new Franco-Colombian sound at a packed

Channelling the spirit of some of our favourites, from Lhasa to Silvana Estrada, but with her unique voice, repertoire and tone. Can’t wait to see her again. Thanks to for a beautiful start to the evening.

19/04/2024

screening, Q&A and Afterparty last night. UK Premiere for this incredible film by joining the dots on fifty years of street art in Chile with a soundtrack from .

Thanks to for partnering on the event and and Kitchen for being such welcoming hosts.

19/04/2024

THIS SUNDAY!
🇧🇷 Don’t miss &
21 April -

‘…Beautiful experimental mûsica popular brasileira on a strikingly confident third album’ Jon Dale, Uncut 9/10

Last tickets @ lalineafestival.com

📸 from yesterday’s session with .fm available now to listen again.

18/04/2024

🇲🇽 Sad to hear of the passing of Jorge Verdin - Clorofila - one of the original members of .

The group played the UK for the first time in La Linea in 2002 opening for who made their own UK debut that night at the Royal Festival Hall

18/04/2024

TONIGHT! Don’t miss at the : The UK premiere of this visually arresting, informative and entertaining documentary film exploring Chile’s unique street art tradition, a remix of muralism and graffiti, which has been part of Chilean cultural and political life since the 60s. Followed by Q&A with director.
Book now

Followed by the FREE Chile Estyle After Party Kitchen from 9pm onwards.
Come to celebrate Chile Estyle and feel some Latin fuego vibes after the screening – with DJ Christian Ellesse, and DJ Raff, who created the original soundtrack for the film.

17/04/2024

🔥🔥🔥 No for LA YEGROS The Jazz Cafe - a fine uptempo set from her new album and before. Great opening to the night from our own Imperio bamba and Carlitos Niño Latinos in London Ltd

Last few tickets left for Latinas of London on Saturday but our other two shows at the venue with and are completely sold out.

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17/04/2024

THIS SATURDAY!
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20 April -

🔥 Hailed as one of ‘The Latinx artist behind Europe’s Latin Music scene’ Latina-Londoner Desta French presents Latinas of London: the most exciting voices emerging from London’s Latin music scene. A live band of Latinx musicians perform with original music makers weaving their Latin American heritage and their British upbringing to create something truly new and exciting.

Last tickets

17/04/2024

A very special event with at a packed St James Church in Paddington last night. Beautiful and profound music for Santiago to launch the TangOpera record.

Outstanding performances from led by

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15/04/2024

continues this week with 9 incredible shows, don’t miss the Latin American heat with:

🇦🇷 + + DJ Carlitos Niño
Tuesday 16 April -

🇦🇷 🇬🇧 TangOpera
Tuesday 16 April - St James’s Church

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Thursday 18 April -

🇨🇴 & House Band + SOLD OUT
Friday 19 April -

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Friday 19 April - Servant Jazz Quarters

🇨🇴 🇬🇧 , , ,
Saturday 20 April - The Jazz Cafe

🇧🇷🇬🇧 + + + .sofi
Saturday 20 April -

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Sunday 21 April -

🇧🇷 + .vyzor SOLD OUT
Monday 22 April - The Jazz Cafe

Book now: lalineafestival.com

15/04/2024

🔥 An amazing long-awaited UK debut for at who filled the last night with a two and a half hour set celebrating their greatest hits.

A night that brought together an audience from across the UK’s Latin American communities. LTDN were joined on stage by Mexican London-based groups and

Viva la música, vivan Los Tigres!

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14/04/2024

TangOpera - St James’ Church
THIS Tuesday 16 April
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TangOpera was launched in 2013 with a sold-out concert at Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room as part of La Linea 13, the TangOpera project returns with its heady fusion of tango and high art.
Join us to celebrate the release of their much-awaited debut album: TangOpera: a Journey Through the Lyric Routes of the Argentine Tango.

14/04/2024

Powerful, lyrical and tender show from last night. She surprised us with special guest appearances from and a spine-tingling, urgent rendition of Somos Sur with the mighty

Big thanks to who opened the show and goes from strength to strength as live performer.

La Linea has a big focus on women in Latin Music this week and fans of should try to catch…

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Tuesday 16 April -

🇨🇴 🇬🇧 , , ,
Saturday 20 April - The Jazz Cafe

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13/04/2024

at + & DJ
THIS Tuesday 16 April
Book now

A great night of cumbia - with La Yegros, one of the most astounding Argentine performers, mixing traditional folk music, chicha, cumbia with rap, funk and tropical bass.
She has just released her long-awaiting new album Haz.

Which song are you looking forward to La Yegros performing live this Tuesday?

13/04/2024

launched in style with at a sold out last night.
🇲🇽 La Jefa backed by her beautiful band performed a set from down the ages. Fantastic opening from London’s own

La Linea continues tonight with + at
Tickets available at & at the door ☀️

12/04/2024

is back – with not one but Dos Corazones – a new song which she will be debuting live in London tonight. She tells Elizabeth Mistry from how her first UK visit in eight years will be an opportunity to talk about why “”we all need more heart.”

Full article: https://www.latinolife.co.uk/articles/heartsongs