TITO PUENTE LATIN MUSIC SERIES
featuring THE PEDRITO MARTINEZ GROUP
featuring THE PEDRITO MARTINEZ GROUP
Thursday, July 31, 2014, 7 PM
O’Day Park
85 West Newton Street, Boston, MA
Admission: FREE
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 in 2010, calling it “complex, blenderized Africa-to-the-New-World funk.” Pedro Pablo “Pedrito” Martinez was born in Havana, where he began his musical career at the age of 11 as a vocalist and percussionist. The Pedrito Martinez Group also includes percussionist Jhair Sala from Peru; electric bassist and Berklee alumnus Alvaro Benavides from Venezuela; and keyboard player/vocalist Araicne Trujillo from Cuba.