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SUMMARY:Pedro Luis Ferrer
DESCRIPTION:Legendary musician\, composer and singer Pedro Luis Ferrer is m
 aking his first appearance at the Towne Crier Cafe!\n\nFerrer occupies a u
 nique place in Cuban music and social culture. He started his career in 19
 69\, and has written songs that have endured in the minds of several gener
 ations in Cuba\, where he is well known and well loved\, both by the intel
 lectually inclined and the more general audience.\n\nFerrer has written so
 ngs that have endured in the minds of several generations in Cuba. He play
 s a variety of Cuban music styles\, like Son Montuno\, Punto Guajiro\, Tro
 va Traditional\, Nengon\, etc. But his main style is Guaracha\, a vibrant 
 genre originating in 18th-century musical theatre\, contributing greatly t
 o a national consciousness during the time of Spanish colonialism. His lyr
 ics are charged with humor\, social commentaries and obsessive references 
 to food\, which is something that’s present in the music of some of his 
 predecessors (“soneros” like Los Compadres\, Trio Matamoros\, Barbaroi
 to Diez\, etc).\n\nBut it is the pointing social commentaries that disting
 uish his lyrics from the more trivial ones of his contemporaries. His witt
 y\, sardonic social commentary so irked the Castro regime that in the late
  ’90s the government banned his music from the state-run media (which in
  Cuba means all media).\n\nFerrer plays Spanish guitar and Cuban Tres (a g
 uitar-like instrument)\, and will be accompanied by his daughter Lena Ferr
 er\, who’s also a composer. Lena started accompanying her father when sh
 e was fourteen\, almost thirty years ago. Lena also plays marimbula (also 
 known as “bajo de flejes\,” a Cuban percussion instrument derived from
  the African Mbira)\, clave\, maracas and guiro. Their voices complement e
 ach other to produce a harmonic and contrapuntal unity where tradition and
  contemporaneity are combined.\n\nPedro Luis Ferrer has performed in over 
 a dozen countries\, from Croatia to Finland\, from Peru to Spain\, from Po
 land to Belgium\, among others. He creates strikingly beautiful and uplift
 ing music. During his long career his songs have been recorded by such art
 ists as Celia Cruz\, Omara Portuondo (Buena Vista Social Club)\, Gilberto 
 Santa Rosa\, Danny Rivera and Papo Luca. He is “a living heritage of Cub
 an culture.”\n\nTickets $30 advance\, $35 door\n\nALL SALES ARE FINAL\n\
 nDINNER RESERVATIONS REQUIRE 1 ENTREE PER PERSON\n\nSHOW ONLY TICKETS ADMI
 TTED 15 MINUTES BEFORE SHOWTIME\n\nADVANCE SALE PRICE ENDS 1 HOUR BEFORE D
 OORS\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQEeXbAbSK4
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