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The Pedrito Martinez Group at The Falcon

Courtesy of Sally Lynch | Posted on June 14, 2019

Where

The Falcon
1348 Rte 9w
Marlboro, NY
Map
845-236-7970

When

Fri, June 14, 2019
8:00 pm

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Musicians

Pedrito Martinez
percussion
Sebastian Natal
piano and vocals

About

Description: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....

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