UC San Diego’s ArtPower and Celebrate AMERI’KANA  presents Los Texmaniacs, Gaby Moreno, Making Movies, Renee Goust, AMERI’KANA All-Stars, and more in a day-long festival at the Epstein Family Amphitheater on August 24, 2024, from 1 pm - 9 pm. Founded by the Latin Grammy-nominated band Making Movies, Celebrate AMERI'KANA is a traveling festival honoring the diverse colors of American music.

Celebrate AMERI’KANA aims to tell the American music origin story by bringing uniquely North American sounds like NYC salsa and San Antonio Tejano together to share the stage with traditional Americana genres like blues and soul, bluegrass, jazz, and rock and roll, as well as sounds that have come in through the Southern border such as corridos, sierreño and rancheras. “We’ve been building spaces in the U.S. that curated music differently - music measured by its spirit, not its genre. This feels like an important time to use music to unite us.” Enrique Chi, Making Movies.