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‘La Cancionera’
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone Lafourcade’s BAM performance kicked off her new tour La Cancionera, in support of her gorgeous album of the same name.
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‘Hasta La Raíz’
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone “I feel so grateful because I have been made to feel at home,””she said of her performance at BAM. “I’m deeply proud to share my songs, songs that now belong to every heart that inhabits them and sings them in their own lives.”
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Lafourcade’s True Voice
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone Lafourcade released La Cancionera in April 2025. The LP explored themes of spirituality and explored who she is as a “cancionera,” or as a songstress.
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La Cancionera Personified
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone The performance was highly intimate. “In this concert, I wanted to visit the Cancionera’s room — the one I inhabited during my childhood, my adolescence, and my youth; through the times I became a woman and now, as I become a mother,” Lafourcade says.
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Mezcal de las Flores
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone The whole album was meant to represent singers and performers who give a piece of themselves when they’re onstage. “This concert celebrates the journey of the cancioneras and cancioneros of all time—those who reach the great stages, and also those who sing from the fields, the streets, a cantina, a bar, a restaurant, or a wedding; places where they might otherwise go unnoticed,” Lafourcade says.
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Serenading BAM Theater
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone “It is an enormous pleasure and privilege to inhabit spaces that great artists and creators have inhabited,” she says of performing at BAM Theater.
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‘Ya No Vivo Por Vivir’
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone “I want to invite the audience to kindle their hearts and their imaginations as I dwell within each of the songs. For me, it was essential to give the words their rightful place, letting them paint different landscapes and leading people by the hand toward an encounter with their own inner universes and gardens.”
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Bringing Mexico to New York
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone Lafourcade returned to her roots for the performance. “I have a wonderful team and a space in Veracruz where we dedicate time to creative residencies, exploring how to design a performance for guitar and voice, or piano and voice, that — more than just an acoustic concert — feels like being inside the Cancionera’s mind,” she says.
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‘Lo Que Construimos’
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone The crowd responded just as passionately, hanging on to her every word and singing along softly to her music.
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A Night of Connection
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone “My greatest desire is for people to find a space of silence, joy, reflection, love, and unity within these concerts,” Lafourcade says. “Music has the profound power to unite us, to erase borders, to build empathy, and to create encounters.”
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An Artist in Motion
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone “The process has felt like play, like returning to childhood. For me, the most important thing is always to enjoy the journey as much as the result.”
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Para Las Mamas
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone “I love knowing that, at the same time I am embracing something as important and transformative as motherhood, I can simultaneously embrace the joy of creating music and sharing it with many people in many places.”
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A Beautiful Life
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone “In this new moment of my career and journey, I feel blessed, grateful, and happy to be able to travel the world to share one of the things I love doing most in my life,” she says.
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‘Y Por más que Crezca vas a Estar Aquí’
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone Lafourcade closed the performance on a powerful note with her 2015 hit “Hasta la Raíz.”
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Natalia Lafourcade has always poured so much of her soul into her live performances. Over the weekend, the Mexican singer-songwriter kicked off one of her deepest, most meaningful set of shows yet as she launched La Cancionera tour, starting everything off with an exclusive performance at New Yorku2019s BAM. She sang several songs from her album of the same name, putting on an emotional show that got to the core of who she is as an artist.</span></p>n
u201cI am beginning this tour after taking some time to rest and welcome motherhood into my </span>life. Of course, starting this tour in Brooklyn and New York becomes a milestone in my </span>journey as a Cancionera,u201d she tells Rolling Stone. u201cKnowing that I can stand on a stage with so much history and creative energy like BAM inspires my soul and my heart in the deepest of places to embark on this voyage; a journey where it is my calling to celebrate music, celebrate my roots, celebrate my culture, and elevate my song and the voice of my community.u201d</span></p>n
Take a look at some of the best moments from the show below.</span></p>n”,”excerpt”:”
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