It’s quite staggering to put it all on one page. We could not have done any of this without your love and support. So grateful. So humbled. Thank you for being an indispensable part of this team, for believing in this crazy dream, and for lending your skillz to help push it out to the world.

With respect and love,
Amy B and Ozomatli

February 2010: Musicares Person of the Year breakout performance- Neil Young’s Mr. Soul, second line style!

February 2010: Completion of Ozo’s most complex and daring album- Fire Away.
www.youtube.com/FireAway

February 2010: TED Block Party
Block Party Video

March 2010: SXSW Auditorium Shores free show to 25,000 people. Epic!

March 2010: Ozomatli composes the 2010 Dodgers Theme Song- Dodgertown
View video here

April 2010: ‘Fire Away’ Album Release!
here

April 2010: Ozomatli performs at Ben n Jerry’s Bonnaroo Buzz Ice Cream Launch, has official sundae “Ozomatli Coco-Caliente” created in their honor.
www.popmatters.com/Ozo

April 2010: Ozomatli Day- proclamation in honor of Ozo’s 15th Anniversary from Mayor Villaragiosa, City Council- Ozo has their own day forever more in Los Angeles- April 23rd
Ozoday

April 2010: Ozomatli vs KCRW Soundclash release

May 2010: Boston Pops! First Symphony Collaboration garners rave reviews, sells out two nights at Symphony Hall

May 2010: A 5 city tour of China as State Department Cultural Ambassadors, including an appearance at the Shanghai Expo, the Tibetan Plateau, and the Chengdu earthquake zone.

June 2010: The first western band to perform a free concert in Mongolia. 30,000 people attend.

June 2010: Releases Gay Vatos In Love Video
Watch video

June 2010: Headlining and hosting the first ever Latin Tent at Bonnaroo, garnering national press attention

August 2010: Capital Records/Aucra/Panasonic session with the legendary Elliot Scheiner
Watch video here

September 2010: Meeting with the NCLR, releasing “Respeto”, the most successful widget download campaign to date, garnering national media attention as well as unprecedented numbers of new database subscribers
www.ozomatli.com/news

September 2010: Headlining the Hollywood Bowl- pulling off a visionary, inspired, stunning, show- which has the possibility to birth a new chapter in the band’s history (vegas baby!)
www.laweekley.com

September 2010: US State Department International Visitors session to the Cookman offices- 30 Global Arts Leaders dialogue with band members

September 2010: All Around The World Video release
watch video

September 2010: Kennedy Center performance for Mexican Independence Day/Bicentennial

September 2010: Collaboration with global Roots Musicians International Visitors program at Kennedy Center
watch here

September 2010: Band members sit on Immigration Reform panel at San Jose State with Dolores Huerta and Tom Saenz
www.alianzanews.com

October 2010: USC Presidential Rally Performance, Meeting Barak Obama
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October 2010: Red Bull Soundclash Ozomatli vs Talib Kweli
www.redbullusa.com/ozo

October 2010: Itunes Sessions released, rethinking and reimagining classic songs, fan favorite!
buy it here

October 2010: Performs at Apple Headquarters, Cupertino CA. Nano uses Fire Away as campaign image
view it here

October 2010: Ozomatli releases cover of Caifanes’ “Nubes.”
check it out

October 2010: Ozomatli awarded prestigious KCET Local Heroes Award for outstanding humanitarian contributions to their city.
watch video here

November 2010: TED TALK!- conceptualizing and realizing a new paradigm of conveying the bands history through story and song
Watch the Tedx talk here

November 2010: Collaboration with the Trojan Marching Band at the USC- Notre Dame half time show
here

December 2010: Fillmore Ozo kids- first hard ticket Ozokidz show

December 2010: Composed end title theme to the new Chris Weitz film “The Gardner”

December 2010: Club Nokia all star jam, year end show, Quinceañera celebration!

And other highlights:

East Coast Blues n Roots Festival, Byron Bay, Australia
Fuji Rock Festival, Naeba, Japan
Vive Latino Festival, DF, Mexico
Austin City Limits
Mile High Festival
Womad (Headlining), London, UK
Celebrate Brooklyn
Bumbershoot Festival
High Sierra Festival (Headlining)
Honored at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus luncheon
Yogi Bear Trailer
Parenthood placement
Harry’s Law placement
Off the Map placement
The Event placement