Quitapenas means “to remove worries.” Everybody has a pena and the band’s mission is simple: to make you dance and leave you worriless. They are modern day curanderos, or healers, and their sets stem from this core, positive action — music as healing. dance as therapy. Tambor Terapía.

Every member of the group is a first-generation child of Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants, and they share a collective love of all kinds of Afro-Latin music: Cape Verdean funaná, Afro-Colombian champeta, Puerto Rican plena, semba from Angola— it all translates into a party. Super bailable.