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The Pedrito Martinez Group at The Falcon
Courtesy of Sally Lynch | Posted on April 3, 2019
Where
The Falcon
1348 Rte 9w
Marlboro, NY
Map
845-236-7970
When
Fri, April 19, 2019
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Pedrito Martinez
percussionSebastian Natal
piano and vocalsIssac Delgado Jr
keyboardsJhair Sala
percussionAbout
"The Pedrito Martinez Group is the real thing. They had the club JUMPING! It made me feel like a teenager!" Quincy Jones
“Pedrito is, almost impossibly, both a cosmopolitan entertainer and an authentic folklorist.... his musicality is just staggering." Derek Trucks
"Writing a new chapter in Cuban music history" NPR All Things Considered
“If anyone can move Afro-Cuban music [to] greater visibility, it’s Martinez” - The New Yorker
“…an incomparable performer.”- Ben Ratliff/New York Times
Born in Havana, Pedrito settled in NYC by 2000, where he received the Thelonious Monk Award for Afro-Latin Hand Percussion....