Latin Sounds: Echo Park Project

Spend your Saturday evenings with world-renowned artists performing everything from Indigenous music to the latest sounds from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Los Angeles! These free concerts are presented Saturday evenings from Memorial Day weekend in May to Labor Day weekend in September. This week, join us for a concert with Echo Park Project.

Echo Park Project founder, Carlo Lopez is a native New Yorker and self-taught percussionist who has played Latin music for most of his life. As a teen, he grew up around the 70’s New York salsa scene, and was part of the emerging new crop of musicians destined to make a mark in the vast landscape of the Salsa Latin music. In 1992 he moved to Los Angeles, where he integrated by playing percussion in local bands, and in 2006, eager to incorporate the New York salsa sound into the local scene, founded the Echo Park Project. The Echo Park Project has Released 6 CD’s, Carlo has also performed with salsa super stars Adalberto Santiago, Cano Estremera, Tony Vega, Choco Orta, Herman Olivera, Frankie Vazquez, Cita Rodriguez, and The New Swing Sextet.