Krannert Center Uncorked: Olmeca
Raul Fernandez, drums
Brenden Cabrera, keys (tracks)
Pete "Maestro" Vale, congas
Jaime Garza, bass
Olmeca, vocals and laptop (playback)
Brenden Cabrera, keys (tracks)
Pete "Maestro" Vale, congas
Jaime Garza, bass
Olmeca, vocals and laptop (playback)
Olmeca Live Performance: Hip Hop As An "Act of Radical Love"
A Hip Hop Cultural Expression of the Heart
Olmeca's live performance is rooted in culture, art, joy, purpose, resistance, and community. Through music, poetry, storytelling, and movement, he explores how Hip Hop transforms lived experience into a creative force capable of changing the world—turning memory into sound, struggle into art, and joy into a form of rebellion. Raw, reflective, and unapologetic, the performance presents Hip Hop as a cultural language of the heart and an act of radical love.
This event is sponsored in cooperation with the Center of Civic Education and Justice at the University of Illinois.
Season-long Patron Sponsors
- A. Mark Neuman
- Jo & Thomas Emerson
- Phyllis Robeson & Family
- Anonymous
Corporate & Community Gold Sponsors
- Illinois Soul
- Lindsey Communities
Patron Sponsor
- Jack Nibling
Patron Co-Sponsors
- Walter Alspaugh
- Jennifer Chapman in loving memory of Susan Manning
- Kathy Vance & Chuck Cowger
- Jonathan & Kathy Sweedler
