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Jarochicanos is a music collective based out of Chicago dedicated to the practice and preservation of traditional Afro-Indigenous Son Jarocho music from southern Veracruz, Mexico. They began in 2008 as a youth workshop learning to play Son Jarocho, and throughout the years developed into a collective of educators, organizers, and artists leading numerous initiatives and projects utilizing traditional music as a tool for community building, resistance, and transformation including: free Son Jarocho workshops for children and adults, cultural exchanges with traditional musicians of other countries, international tours with elders and groups from Veracruz, pop-up shop with handmade creations of Jarochicanos and other community artisans, and arts integration educational programs. In 2021 Jarochicanos helped found the non-profit 18th Street Casa de Cultura, a cultural center in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, which is now the home of Jarochicanos’ programming. The projects of Jarochicanos and 18th Street Casa de Cultura strive to create spaces in our urban, American context where the ancestral knowledge found in our inherited cultural traditions can be shared, practiced, and remembered for they have what we believe is the key to transforming and healing our communities.