How dangerous are two acoustic-guitar wielding Mexicans?
According to the news at Rodrigo y Gabriela’s site, too dangerous to be allowed into the US:
ATO Records recording artist Rodrigo y Gabriela will unfortunately be unable to honor their upcoming American Langerado performance this Sunday March 13th. Due to new U.S. immigration policies and procedures, guitarist Rodrigo Sanchez’s visa renewal has unexpectedly been delayed.
ATO Records and artist management are diligently working to expedite and resolve this issue. We will keep you abreast of the situation as information becomes available.
So much for Tuesday’s show at the Roxy. Hope it’s all worked out soon.
Update - it’s back on, now for April 17th.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:29 am
Who was the brilliant burocrat at the embassy that give him the no… he should view some TV, they have appear in the most important TV shows around the world, recently with Leno and Letterman.
This would help a lot in the fight against terrorism… I think terrorist use they real names and they real ID’s to pass to the country they want to attack, and terrorist formed music bands anb became famous in order to avoid security.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:29 am
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