Ruidosa Fest is coming to NYC! Credit to Criteria Entertainment.
Los Angeles, California (April 19, 2025)- It’s finally official: the festival that shook the heart of New York in 2024 is back this summer with even more strength, more voices, and more reasons to celebrate. Ruidosa Fest, the musical and cultural gathering founded by Chilean-American artist Francisca Valenzuela, will take over Lincoln Center on Saturday, August 9, 2025, with a day dedicated to amplifying the talent, energy, and diversity of Latina women and dissidents in music.
What began as a creative shout from Santiago, Chile, has now grown into a continental movement. Ruidosa doesn’t just make noise—it does so with style, meaning, and with a force that challenges established narratives and paves new paths.
This year, Ruidosa Fest’s artistic proposal in New York promises a sonic journey as diverse as it is powerful. From the irreverence of Snow Tha Product, to the social lyricism of J Noa, the electronic mysticism of YEИDRY, the ancestral strength of MC Millaray, and the futuristic pulse of Empress Of, each artist on the lineup embodies a unique facet of what it means to be a woman and Latina in today’s world. Other talents include PAMÉ and Sofía Rei, two voices that blur the lines between musical genres and cultural realities. To close the night, Argentine artist Tayhana will transform the famous Josie Robertson Plaza into a silent, electrifying dance floor, under a 10-foot-high disco ball, in a collective ritual of music and resistance.
Ruidosa is, at its core, a political act disguised as a party. It’s the affirmation that women don’t just occupy space in Latin music—they are reimagining it. “There isn’t just one Latin identity, nor one way of being a woman or finding success,” said Francisca Valenzuela. And this premise is felt in every detail of the festival, which blends performances with activism, and joy with purpose.
The 2024 edition already made it clear that Lincoln Center was ready to break molds. As the New York Times headlined, “Gloriously Noisy Latinas Are Coming to Lincoln Center”—and boy, did they make noise. Panels with media leaders like Rolling Stone and Billboard, unforgettable shows by iLe, Bebel Gilberto, and Valenzuela herself, and a vibrant community that responded with overflowing enthusiasm.
Since its inception, Ruidosa has established itself as an interdisciplinary platform where music coexists with conversations, workshops, research, and action. And it does so from a feminist and inclusive perspective, understanding that pop culture can be both entertainment and a driving force for change. In a world that still silences too many voices, Ruidosa doesn’t just raise its own—it offers microphones to those who rarely have them. It’s a space where Latinas can be loud, vulnerable, brilliant, complex—and above all, heard.
Ruidosa is not just a festival. It’s an invitation to rethink everything. To dance, to shout, to heal. To make noise. Because in that noise, there’s history, there’s future, and above all, there’s community.
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