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Los Mirlos @ Damrosch Park Lincoln Center, New York, NY 7/10/25

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  Bill: Los Mirlos Venue: Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center , New York, NY Date: 7/10/25 Door: Free 8:00pm Los Mirlos Active: 1972 (Lima via Moyobamba, Peru) Latest Release:  Corazón Amazónico (Los Merlos, 2018), (with Astros de Mendoza)   Abducción Amazónica (Fokoaq, 2021) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube Los Mirlos are the long running Peruvian Cumbia group.  I listened to their first a lbum from 1973,  El Sonido Selvático  the other day and decided to check the band outside free at Lincoln Center.   I hadn't seen anything there for a few years, but NYC has this thing where if you go somewhere you rarely or never go to, you find yourself back there within days. The guitar sounds like a tremolo drenched Latin Ventures.  Live those guitarists Danny Johnston and Jorge Luis Rodriguez Perez the son of founding vocalist Jorge Rodriguez Grandez are Gods.  The younger Jorge joined much later so that makes D...