Natalia Lafourcade’s “Cancionera” Tour: A Raw and Emotional Celebration of Culture
- Mara Rosales
- 8 hours ago
- 2 min read
In a time where the political climate of the country is as tense and divisive as it is now, Natalia Laforucade’s Cancionera tour offered a raw and intimate homecoming for those seeking to connect with themselves and their roots.
Performing at the Tabernacle in Atlanta on both April 18 and 19, Lafourcade brought her soulfully chilling sound to the stage. The crowd watched in awe as she opened the show with her song Cancionera, with the room so quiet you could hear a pin drop. As if they were in a trance, they let Lafourcade fill them with her emotional ballad, solely accompanied by an acoustic piano.
The show only became more hypnotic through the next two songs, with the trance finally being broken once Lafourcade turned to smile and begin interacting with the crowd. Introducing the tour through literal storytelling, she invited those who were weighed down by heavy hearts to lose themselves in the music for the night, for it is a universal healer.
Her audience couldn’t help but shower her with gifts, both material and not. The crowd erupted with cheers, declarations of love, and three fans even rushed to share their flags with her, leaving la cancionera herself adorned with Mexican flags.
With no hesitation, the artist from Veracruz placed the flags beautifully on her chair and mic stand, making sure they were properly displayed before going on to introduce the next song. Dedicating it to migrants currently suffering due to the political climate surrounding immigration in the United States, she performed Mexicana Hermosa, a track off of her 2017 album Musas which acted as a love letter towards healing and Mexican culture as a whole.
Lafourcade’s Cancionera tour leans into storytelling in its purest form with an almost fully acoustic show. Instead of simply singing the music, she takes the audience back to how music originally began: by telling stories with a single instrument to accompany them. And she could not forget the lessons in her music, even taking time to acknowledge issues that endanger women, such as violence and femicide.
Still, the performance itself was a raw celebration of culture. Although she was in a room full of strangers, she made the audience feel like they were family, and made the music feel like something more cinematic. With audience participation, she used the men as her bass and invited the women to sing, letting everyone’s voices lull Atlanta into the night.
