Terminal 5 (Venue Partner)
610 W 56th St
212.582.6600
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- When
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Wednesday Sep 16, 2009 (7pm)
- Where
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Directions: 1, A, B, C, D at 59th St / Columbus Circle or N,Q,R,W at 57th
- Price
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$35
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Rodrigo (Sanchez) and Gabriela (Quintero) are two fast-fingered, Dublin-based, Mexicans with a unique sound created on acoustic guitars. Their music is difficult to define, straddling both world and rock, and often imbued with timeless Hispano--classical influences. The fire in it comes from their life-long passion for metal music. This spring, Rodrigo y Gabriela beat both the Arctic Monkeys AND Johnny Cash to number one in the Irish charts.
Rodrigo is a deft finger-picker who can move from raging speed to sensual soul in the space of a fret, while Gabriela employs fast, rhythmic techniques. Her percussionist's thrashing of strings and drumming of the instrument's body inevitably raises comparisons with flamenco -- which they acknowledge as an influence but swerve as a pigeonhole. The duo's repertoire flies beyond familiar Latin folk guitarists' styles because of the metal connection: their re-workings of Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven' and Metallica's 'Orion' are musts, and the presence, on 'Ixtapa,' of the fiery Hungarian gypsy violinist, Roby Lakatos, is inspirational.
