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Pedrito Martinez Group at Folly Theater
Courtesy of Bandsintown | Posted on August 9, 2019
Where
Folly Theater
300 West 12th Street
Kansas City, MO
Map
816-474-4444
When
Fri, December 13, 2019
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Pedrito Martinez
percussionAbout
Pedro Pablo “Pedrito” Martinez was born in Havana, Cuba, Sept 12, 1973. Having settled in New York City in the fall of 1998, by 2000, he had been awarded the Thelonious Monk Award for Afro-Latin Hand Percussion and featured in the documentary “Calle 54”.
Pedrito’s career as a leader began in 2005 with the formation in NYC of The Pedrito Martinez Group. The group’s Grammy-nominated first album, Pedrito Martinez Group, was released October 2013 and was chosen among NPR’s Favorite Albums of 2013 and The Boston Globe Critics Top Ten Albums of 2013.