La Linea Festival

🎶 #EdMaverick is bringing his soul-stirring sound to London for a one-night-only performance at @UnionChapelUK on 1st May 2025 as part of #LaLinea25l! 🌟 🎟️ Book now at lalineafestival.com

@EliadesOchoa @BarbicanCentre @TheJazzCafe 🇺🇾🇦🇷 30 April - Queer Utopico: an evening with @alexetcharts & Juan Inaki , SOAS 🇲🇽 1 May - Premiere: Ed Maverick presents “La nube el jardin”, @UnionChapelUK 🇵🇹🇬🇹 1 May - @analuacaiano & Baby Volcano, @HootanannyBrix

Welcome: 🇨🇺 22 April - @EliadesOchoa , @BarbicanCentre 🇪🇸 23 April - Rodrigo Cuevas , Islington Assembly Hall 🇵🇷 25 April - Villano Antilllano , @TheJazzCafe 🇧🇷 26 April - Francisco, El Hombre , farewell show, @TheJazzCafe

💜 Get ready, London! We’re thrilled to reveal the first wave of our stellar lineup, showcasing the best of Latin music talent. This year’s festival promises unforgettable and very unique performances🎤💃 Tickets on sale now at lalineafestival.com #LaLinea25

ED MAVERICK presents “La Nube an el Jardin” | Thursday 1 May UK exclusive performance of the acclaimed Mexican singer-songwriter’s new music blending folk, rock, and Latin influences with raw emotional storytelling. Book now at unionchapel.org.uk/venue/whats-on… @LaLineaFest

✨ Line-up announcement this Thursday at 12pm! 💜 Countdown starts now! Stay tuned for the big reveal.

🎉 2025, here we come! 🎶 La Linea, London’s Latin Music Festival, is back! 🌟 From April 22nd to May 5th, we’ll be taking over venues across the city with the most ambitious lineup of Latin talent to date.🇨🇺🇲🇽🇪🇸🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇵🇷 Cont.

This year’s artwork, designed by Oscar Reyes, features a flaming heart for Latin America, celebrating our 25th anniversary, surrounded by vibrant flowers from the home countries of each artist at La Línea festival ❤️‍🔥

Also at our first groundbreaking festival were @OmaraPortuondo (with an opening set from Toto la Momposina) and Jesus Alemany’s Cubanismo, supported by Vocal Baobab.

As the curtain closes on #LaLinea24 we take a look back at some of the highlights of the festival over the last 24 years. @comonouk established La Linea in April 2001 and began the first year with a bang with four sold out shows in the #RoyalFestivalHall @southbankcentre TBC 👇

World Circuit Records album live for the first time, on an epic night which began with the UK debut for Mexico’s @KinkyTheBand and ended with a sound system set from Richard Blair’s Sidestepper net Sound System. 👇

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 #CachaitoLopez, playing his ground-breaking 👇

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 👇

☀️🎺🎶 Don’t let the (Latin) music stop! @LaLineaFest might be over but our sister organisation @comonouk has some great shows coming up which you just can’t miss: 🎺 New Regency Orchestra+ DJ Lex Blondin Thursday 27 June @ScalaLondon Continues in comments:

EN - We are looking for you! We seek a dynamic, efficient and organised Operations and Reporting Manager to join Como No & @LaLineaFest . We need you to support our newly appointed Director as we take the organisation into its next stage. TBC below:

Como No & @LaLineaFest 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… TBC below

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

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.

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.