The Loisaida Center presents:
Tito Matos
founder of: Viento de Agua
2014 Latin Grammy Awards Nominee.Tito Matos is one of the most impressive requinto players of the plena tradition. He plays other percussion instruments: bomba barrels, congas, among others. He is the founder and director of Viento de Agua. He has previously recorded, played and toured with: Eddie Palmieri, David Sánchez, Miguel Zenón and Ricky Martin among many others. He is still a member of New York’s iconic bomba and plena ensemble Los Pleneros de la 21. Tito is the founder of Plenazos Callejeros a movement that takes plena to street corners in different Puerto Rican towns.
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1:00pm – 3:00pm
Taller de Plena
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Screening of Plenazos Callejeros
Plenazos Callejeros is a documentary about a movement that revolutionized Afro Puerto Rican musical genre: plena. Every month a bunch of pleneros would gather at a street corner to play and talk about music. The video takes viewers on a journey through the last 30 years of the plena tradition.
Director: Mariana Reyes Angleró
Producers: Mariana Reyes and Tito Matos for Viento de Agua Inc.
Editor: Juan C. Álvarez Lara