Bassist

Experience an irresistible blend of Afro-Latin music, jazz, and funk, led by Cuban-born and New York–based bandleader, vocalist, composer, and percussion virtuoso Pedrito Martinez. His long-running and Grammy Award–nominated Pedrito Martinez Group is a true New York powerhouse. The band grooves so hard it makes Martinez’s breathtaking rhythmic feats seem effortless. Catchy songwriting, rich musical traditions, and impeccable band chemistry come together in a high-energy performance enjoyed by listeners and dancers alike.

Carnegie Hall Citywide: The Pedrito Martinez Group

Riverbank State Park

Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater’s original musical play will run Off-Broadway and for the first time at Miriam Colón’s historic Puerto Rican Traveling Theater on west 47th street, Manhattan, on December 1-23. Aloha Boricua dramatizes the one-way transoceanic trip to the Hawaiian archipelago made by poor sugarcane workers and families whose lives were upended by the U.S. military invasion of Puerto Rico and the devastation of Category 4 San Ciriaco Hurricane in 1898-99. Premiered in 2009 under the direction of Jorge B. Merced and composer Desmar Guevara, the show lifts the voices and weaves the stories of five characters in search of home and opportunity, and pays tribute to the myths and truths of the Hawaiian people who welcomed them at the end of their journey.

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Aloha Boricua

Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (PRTT)

Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater’s 2022-23 Mainstage Season kicks off with a new staging of Harlem Hellfighters on a Latin Beat, a rousing Latinx musical play developed under the leadership of award-winning director and dramaturg Rosalba Rolón and composer Desmar Guevara. It is the story of extraordinary valor and musicianship that made the 369th Infantry of the New York Army National Guard the most celebrated regiment of the World War One era. As the U.S. prepares to enter armed struggle, genius bandleader and conductor James Reese Europe assembles an all-Black regimental band of unprecedent high caliber. Now firmly established as a point of pride in African American history, it is less known that Lieut. Europe recruited 17 of his illustrious musician-soldiers in Puerto Rico, among them the great Rafael Hernández and Rafael Duchesne.

Álvaro Benavides

Bassist

Events

Past events

Jun 15, 2024

Carnegie Hall Citywide: The Pedrito Martinez Group · Carnegie Hall

1 - 23 Dec, 2022

Aloha Boricua · Puerto Rican Traveling Theater

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