Cristina Pato: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

After nearly a decade spent living in the city, Cristina Pato is a fullfledged New Yorker. But her first home is the place where Spain meets the Celtic world: Galicia. Pato s instrument is the gaita, a Galician bagpipe, and her roots lie in traditional Galician music though she also boasts graduate degrees in classical piano, music theory and electronic composition. And if you happen to think that bagpipes automatically equal St. Patrick s Day parades or Austin Powers movies, Pato would like to disabuse