Music
PEDRITO MARTINEZ GROUP featuring Ariacne Trujillo
with Special Guest SIN MIEDO
SAT FEB 9 / 8PM
$17 IN ADVANCE / $20 DAY OF
Ballroom
“If anyone can move Afro-Cuban music into greater visibility, it’s Martinez.”
- The New Yorker
“Watching Pedrito Martinez is one of the most inspiring musical experiences you can imagine.”
- Galactic
The Pedrito Martinez Group has its roots planted firmly in the Afro-Cuban Rumba tradition and in the bata rhythms and vocal chants of the music of Yoruba and Santeria. Ben Ratliff summed it up aptly for The New York Times calling it, “complex, blenderized Africa-to-the-New-World funk.” Pedro Pablo “Pedrito” Martinez was born in Havana, Cuba, Sept 12, 1973. Pedrito began his musical career at the age of 11, performing as vocalist and percussionist playing with such Cuban legends as Tata Guines, Munequitos de Matanzas. Since settling in New York City in 2000, Pedrito has performed, recorded, and/or toured with Paquito D’Rivera; Brian Lynch; Steve Turre; Me’shell Ndege’Ocello; Eddie Palmieri; Bill Summers and Los Hombres Calientes; Arturo “Chico” O’Farrill; Stefon Harris; Bebo Valdés; Cassandra Wilson; Joe Lovano, and Sting.
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