Las Manos Locas

Las Manos Locas (The Crazy Hands) plays plays an infectious brew of African, Afro-Cuban and Americanized rhythms and songs.
Playing on Drums Of All Types, with Bells, Shakers, Singing and Dancing, they are often blamed for instilling too much joy into the lives of innocent bystanders. Unsuspecting listeners have found themselves swept into the percolating rhythms.
Every Las Manos Locas performance includes having the audience join in. Each performance is intended to be an opportunity for people, anybody, to join in and experience the joy of the music, the rhythms and playing together like children playing in a musical sandbox.
A typical Las Manos Locas's performance includes traditional folkloric music, hybrid arrangements of traditional rhythms, modern cover songs and original music. Performances commonly include audience participation and spontaneous dance. Las Manos Locas selects music that embodies the passion and joy that has survived and thrived in this music through its journey to the Americas from Africa via Slavery.