Eguie castrillo biography

  • My main thing as an instructor of Latin percussion at Berklee is to give the students here not only the knowledge of the rhythm from the Caribbean.
  • Castrillo is a high demand percussionist and an authority on the rhythms of the Caribbean countries Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and.
  • Celebrated Puerto Rican percussionist, Eguie Castrillo, was the star performer at the first of four Jazz & Blues concerts in Library Park on July 23rd.

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    Biography
    MAMBO IS BACK! Puerto Rican percussionist Eguie Castrillo & His Orchestra, reclaim the PALLADIUM TRADITION with this intense 20 piece Orchestra, full of energy and the excitement of Mambo and Cha-Cha-Cha while also paying homage to the original Mambo Kings: Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez and Machito.

    Recently the Orchestra played again at Berklee's Performance Center doing a show called "Latin Meets Jazz" to a Full House, and they also played at Massachusetts new Govenor Deval Patrick's Inuagural Ceremony to an attending audience of 10,0000. The orchestra was the closing act and had the honor to be the only Latin artists to play at this event. Other headline artist's that performed where Yo-Yo Ma, Patti Austin and The Platters.

    For bookings and additional information, please send an email to: booking@acropolis-ic.com or call Carlos Delgado at (617) 782-4698.

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    What's This

    • Members:
      21
    • Sounds Like:
      Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez, Machito
    • Influences:
      Tito Pue

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      Eguie Castrillo: Taking audiences back in time!

      Kicking off another great season -- and year -- of arts events this January, is Grammy Award-winning timbalero, Eguie Castrillo. As he preserves a musical tradition with performances that “transport you to the New York Ballrooms of the 1950s & 60s,” this master of mambo, accompanied by his Palladium Orchestra (an 18-piece big band), will not only bring the entire audience back in time but to their feet with his electrifying Mambo Mania coming to our Villa Victoria Center of the Arts. We sat down with the artist to talk about his amazing career, his impressions of Boston’s arts and culture scene, and what he’s most excited about for the future. You said that after you saw Tito Puente playing timbales, that’s when you knew you wanted to be a timbalero. Can you tell us more about that experience? I saw him live in concert in 1978 and it was the most crucial experience in my music life. It started everything for me. inom

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      Eguie Castrillo

      "My main thing as an instructor of Latin percussion at Berklee is to give the students here not only the knowledge of the rhythm from the Caribbean, but also give them my experience as a touring musician. I have played with a lot of the big guys in Latin music, and they sat with me and told me stories. inom want to pass that on to my students at Berklee."

      "I want them to learn how to deal with this world of music, so that when they get out of my class, they don't just know how to play the rhythms. They also have an understanding of the roots of the music. If you want to really know the language of any instrument or any music, you have to go to the roots. I always säga, I can teach you A-B-C-D-E-F-G until Z, but if inom don't teach you how to put those letters together, to make words and make sense, you don't know what to do with them. Students have to learn—go back to the roots—no matter what instrument they play."

      "The quality of the teachers here is unreal. Every teach

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