MUSIC
MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2019
7:30 PM

Gaby Moreno feat. LADAMA & Metropolis Ensemble
Ecstatic Music
Merkin Hall
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$25
https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/gaby-moreno-with-ladama-spangled/

Guatemalan singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno is, to tell you the truth, a little conventional for my taste. But her last album — which she's performing tonight — was a collaboration with no less than Van Dyke Parks, which adds enormous interest for popsessives like me. The parts of the players Parks assembled will be played tonight by New York's own ace Metropolis Ensemble. Pan-Latin vocal/instrumental quartet LADAMA has more spunk than Moreno; they'll do an opening set as well as providing backup for the Moreno piece.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: What could be better after this exploration of Latin-American interface that a bowl of Tennessee Chili at Old John's Luncheonette across the street?