When: March 19, 2009 - 8:00 pm
March 20, 2009 - 9:00 pm
Where: Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
17 Irving Place New York, NY 10003-Gramercy Park
Price: $17.50-$23.50, $26
Website
Reader Rating:

Event Description:

Ozomatli is currently an eight piece band (although they have had as many as ten members, and as few as seven), playing primarily Latin, hip hop, and rock, formed in 1995 in Los Angeles. They are known both for their vocal activist viewpoints and their wide array of musical styles – including salsa, jazz, funk, reggae, and others.

In a 2007 NPR interview, band members Jiro Yamaguchi and Ulises Bella describe Ozomatli:

“ You drive down Sunset Boulevard and turn off your stereo and roll down your windows and all the music that comes out of each and every different car, whether it’s salsa, cumbia, merengue, or Hip Hop, funk or whatever, it’s that crazy blend that’s going on between that cacophony of sound is Ozomatli, y’know?”