[FA Worldmusic] Tremendous NY Performance by Dominican Sonero Legend "Puerto Plata"

[Tom Frouge]

Thanks for this Evangeline.  Puerto Plata and his band will not only
perform this year at !Globalquerque! on the evening stages, he will
also be doing a workshop on Bachata and Merengue  during our Saturday
daytime programming...


Peace,
tom

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On Jun 26, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Evangeline Kim wrote:

> http://www.iasorecords.com/puerto-plata.cfm
>
> While world music fans have amassed great collections of Cuban and
> Puerto
> Rican music over the past few decades,  lesser-known from the
> Spanish-speaking
> Caribbean in the world music universe remains the music from the
> Dominican
> Republic: bolero, son, bachata and merengue.  (Last year we saw two
> compilations appear on the World Music Network label, Bachata and
> Merengue,
> which are worthy intros to those two enormously popular styles.)
>
> This past weekend, I was thrilled to experience live one of the
> last Dominican
> sonero legends, Jose Cobles aka "Puerto Plata," who headlined a
> small festival
> in New York, Quisqueya en el Hudson.  A spry, delightful 84 year-old
> performer, Puerto Plata had the crowds (including scores of charmed
> children!)
> applauding and dancing away to his mix of son laced with bachata
> and merengue
> rhythms.  His was by far one of the greatest Afro-Latin
> performances I've ever
> seen.  His band was tight, with glorious guitars, bass, guira,
> tambora and
> bongo drums as they serenaded the evening with impossibly romantic
> and witty
> songs.
>
> The power and beauty of Puerto Plata's music are stunning, and the
> good news
> is that he'll be performing during the Madison World Music
> Festival, the
> Chicago World Music Festival, Globalquerque! in New Mexico and
> also, the State
> University of New Mexico -- in the latter half of September.  If
> you're in
> those neighborhoods then, Puerto Plata's concerts are definitely worth
> pursuing.
>
> At above link, you can sample some of Puerto Plata's music.
>
> Best!
> Evangeline
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