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Tito y su Son de Cuba Quinteto: Celebration la Noche Buena en Havana Vieja
December 23, 2011 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
$15 – $18
Heriberto “Tito” Gonzalez, “El Trecero mayor”, arrived in the San Francisco Bay area in the summer of 2000. His music is typical and primarily “El Son”. Now, with a new life in San Francisco and the songwriter’s freedom to experiment and story-telling, Tito, a consummate master of Cuban traditional music, brings a fresh sound to a lifetime of experience.
Tito Gonzales spent his young life picking up guitar licks around the rim of the sea thanks to a Cuban-run company that sent fisherman like him far and wide to find the catch. The open water swept him into the urban narrows, and, back on dry land, he traded up for the sound of the tres (small Cuban guitar) and the Cuban son, yet his talent only led him to ordinary labor. Fate had in store for him a different destiny -a rapid ascendence from cabbie to celebrity and a star of the Cuban music scene.
Tito Gonzalez: lead singer, tres guitar, percussion
Miguel Martinez: flute and percussion
David Fraizer: congas
Antonio Garcia: bass
Mario Artino: piano
www.titoysusondecuba.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm8VgYkcaSc
$15-$18 admission. Cash only.
Doors open at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.