{"id":739821,"date":"2013-02-27T22:31:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T03:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=70646"},"modified":"2013-02-27T22:31:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T03:31:21","slug":"laying-down-the-beats-on-the-main-stage-pedrito-martinez-back-at-ted2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/739821","title":{"rendered":"Laying down the beats on the main stage: Pedrito Martinez back at TED2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_71546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 910px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/02\/26\/the-musicians-musician-pedrito-martinez-at-ted2013\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71546 \" alt=\"TED2013_0052915_D41_0045\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/ted2013_0052915_d41_0045.jpg?w=900&#038;h=599&#038;fit=900%2C599&#038;resize=780%2C519\" width=\"780\" height=\"519\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos: James Duncan Davidson<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/02\/26\/the-musicians-musician-pedrito-martinez-at-ted2013\/\">Pedrito Martinez is back onstage<\/a> at TED, and this time he&#8217;s brought his band, including the dynamite Ariacne Trujillo on keys. &#8220;They have almost a psychic communication,&#8221; says TED music advisor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/activecultures\">Bill Bragin<\/a>, a longtime fan who describes taking guests who visit New York City to go see Martinez play at the local Cuban restaurant at which he plays three times a week. &#8220;When artists want to see a slice of New York, I often bring them to see Pedrito. It always blows them away.&#8221; The TED audience, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71543 aligncenter\" alt=\"Photos: James Duncan Davidson\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/ted2013_0052454_d31_3721.jpg?w=900&#038;h=599&#038;fit=900%2C599&#038;resize=780%2C519\" width=\"780\" height=\"519\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71545\" alt=\"TED2013_0052773_D41_9902\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/ted2013_0052773_d41_9902.jpg?w=900&#038;h=599&#038;fit=900%2C599&#038;resize=780%2C519\" width=\"780\" height=\"519\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71544\" alt=\"TED2013_0052747_D41_9876\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/ted2013_0052747_d41_9876.jpg?w=900&#038;h=599&#038;fit=900%2C599&#038;resize=780%2C519\" width=\"780\" height=\"519\" \/><\/p>\n<br \/>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/70646\/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/70646\/\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?resize=1%2C1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/lUbVMTNQK4g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos: James Duncan Davidson Pedrito Martinez is back onstage at TED, and this time he&#8217;s brought his band, including the dynamite Ariacne Trujillo on keys. &#8220;They have almost a psychic communication,&#8221; says TED music advisor, Bill Bragin, a longtime fan who describes taking guests who visit New York City to go see Martinez play at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36sB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}