Rosie Flores is a 2024 National Heritage Fellow, an honor recognizing her six decades of devotion to exploring and performing American roots-rock music and how it intersects with her Latina heritage. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Flores moved with her family to San Diego, California, where she began leading bands as a guitarist and singer while still in high school. A key member of the Los Angeles cowpunk scene in the 1980s, Flores led the bands Penelope’s Children and Rosie & the Screamers, joined the flamboyant Screamin’ Sirens, then signed with Reprise Records as a solo artist in 1987. Over the decades, she brought attention to rockabilly pioneers Wanda Jackson and Janis Martin while exploring Americana, blues, country, rockabilly, and Tejano music. Offered in support of the exhibition Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock, presented by City National Bank. Program made possible in part by the Academy of Country Music. Ford Theater. Included with Museum admission. Program ticket required. Free to Museum members.

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