Festival Música ORIGINAL Los Pinos November 2026 lineup, Digi Mart USA News (Mexico City, Mexico): From November 12 to 15, 2026, the Los Pinos Cultural Complex in Mexico City will host 16 performances by the Festival Música ORIGINAL, as part of the ORIGINAL Textile, Decorative and Utilitarian Arts Encounter, November 2026 edition.
The lineup brings together artists and groups from different regions of the country, with styles ranging from rap and rock to reggae, pop and electronic music. Indigenous languages and the musical expressions of their communities have a prominent place in the program.
Mexico’s Secretary of Culture, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, said that Indigenous languages are also heard in rap, rock and electronic music. She said the festival opens the stage to creators and communities who are renewing their traditions from the present, bringing the country’s cultural diversity into public spaces and to new audiences.
According to the press release, the Velaria Stage will serve as the meeting point for four days of performances. Each day features four acts that explore identity, memory, linguistic diversity and the experiences of new generations.
On Thursday, November 12, the program focuses on hip hop and rap. Mixe Represent, from Tamazulápam, Oaxaca, blends verses in Ayuujk (Mixe) with influences from jazz, funk and community music.
Juchirap, from the Séptima Sección of Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, raps in Zapotec and Spanish about culture, traditions and community life.
The lineup continues with MI$HA, an independent artist from Mexico City whose songs explore personal emotions and experiences, and Juan Sant, a rapper, poet and writer from the Sierra Norte of Puebla, who sings in Totonac and Spanish. He shares reflections on identity and on living far from his home community.
On Friday, November 13, rock and blues take center stage with three groups that connect the languages and musical traditions of their territories. Lumaltok, from Chiapas, performs blues and rock in Tsotsil, and Sak Tzevul, from Zinacantán, is a pioneer of rock sung in that language.
They will be joined by Noesis Ñuu Savi, from Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, a group with more than two decades of experience that combines rock, folk and blues with sones, jarabes and chilenas from Oaxacan musical tradition. The day also features Hamac Caziim, a pioneering Indigenous rock group that has made music a form of cultural expression and resistance.
On Saturday, November 14, the stage features different ways of experimenting with traditional rhythms and contemporary music. Vibra Muchá, a Mexican group founded by brothers Chinto and Polock Muchá, performs reggae, ska and rocksteady with influences from jazz, rock and son jarocho.
From Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Miroslav Ü will present an electronic set that incorporates pre-Hispanic music, vocals in Indigenous languages, and house, techno and downtempo rhythms. Alyosha Barreiro, a Mexican musician, producer and sound artist, presents a project that combines traditional instruments with contemporary sounds.
The day closes with Centavrvs, a Mexico City group that describes its music as “Mexican regional electronica,” combining folklore and popular culture with cumbia, afrobeat and other rhythms.
On Sunday, November 15, the festival features four acts led by women who explore different possibilities of song, poetry and contemporary music. Azalea Báalam, from Yucatán, is an artist and producer who created the concepts NAHUAPOP and MAYAPOP, linking pop music with Indigenous languages and Mesoamerican cultural references.
Arancha, a Veracruz artist, draws on jarocho poetry and the décima tradition to combine them with rap, spoken word and sound experimentation.
Alejandra Paniagua, a singer-songwriter and harpist from Xalapa, Veracruz, draws inspiration from nature, nostalgia and life’s transformations. Belle “La Malixita” combines Spanish and Maya with R&B, hip hop, pop and Latin alternative music, incorporating pre-Hispanic instruments and influences from other musical traditions.
According to the release, the festival’s performances are part of the ORIGINAL Textile, Decorative and Utilitarian Arts Encounter, November 2026 edition, which brings together 580 master artisans from 31 states, along with workshops, exhibitions, runway shows and other activities. Visitors can view and buy the artisans’ creations directly, without intermediaries and under fair trade principles.
All Festival Música ORIGINAL performances are free admission from November 12 to 15, 2026, at the Velaria Stage of the Los Pinos Cultural Complex. The full program and activity details are available at original.cultura.gob.mx and on ORIGINAL’s official social media channels.
