Quetzal: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

The Southern California band Quetzal recently celebrated its 20th anniversary with a blowout concert that seemed to attract as many musicians as regular people. The band has maintained such a strong presence in the SoCal Chicano music scene that its members could be considered padrinos and padrinas of that freeflowing musical is respected and admired as much for its commitment to social justice, activism and education lead singer Martha Gonzalez has a Ph. D as for its folkinfused music, which gets a marvelous showcase in this Tiny Desk Concert. While the instrumentation is stripped down, the sound is full; the music penetrates the intellect even as it makes your hips group runs a tight ship musically: Gonzalez s voice could be heard well past the confines of the Tiny Desk, all the way to our webdesigning neighbors; guitarist Quetzal Flores unplugged and worked the Mexican jarana for both rhythm and melody, often at the same time; violinist Rocio Marron wove blues licks into Me