MUSIC
MONDAY & TUESDAY, APRIL 29 & 30, 2019
8:00 PM

Rosalía: El Mal Querer
Red Bull Music Festival
Webster Hall
125 East 11th Street, East Village, Manhattan

$40
https://www.redbull.com/us-en/music/events/rosalia-el-mal-querer-4-29
https://www.redbull.com/us-en/music/events/rosalia-el-mal-querer

Every several years, someone comes along and synthesizes Flamenco with whatever pop styles are contemporary at the time.  Sometimes it works better than other times (I really liked Ojos de Brujo).  Rosalía is getting a lot of favorable attention (these shows are sold out) for her fusion of Flamenco with alt-R&B and pop.  I wish I liked her music more, to be honest -- but I'm going to continue to give it every possible chance.  Not at these sold-out shows perhaps -- but, as we all know about ticket availability, things tend to change at the last minute.  (As another draw, these shows will give longtime NYC concertgoers a chance to see how many layers of sludge they managed to remove in the recent, long-needed renovations of Webster Hall's bathrooms.)

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Before the show, Tim Ho Wan for what are, for me, some of the most astonishingly overrated dim sum in the known universe.  After the show, you might just be able to make it to Momofuku Ssäm Bar, better than it's been in years.