Rodríguez 

Event Details

WHEN: Friday, August 31st at 8:00pm WHERE: Highline Ballroom 431 W 16th St New York, NY 10011 Venue Website HOOD: Chelsea

COST: $20, $25 AGE: 18+ MORE INFO: Event Info

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Event Description

Sixto “Sugar Man” Rodríguez will perform at the Highline Ballroom on Friday August 31st.

After being re-discovered by an audience that he himself didn’t know he had, 70s Mexican-American rocker Rodríguez is now the subject of Malik Bendjelloul’s Remezcla-featured documentary “Searching for Sugar Man”.

Rodriguez’ music and lyrics had also become a guiding light and inspiration to a generation of South African youth caught up in the Apartheid-era army conscription and subsequent Southern African Border wars. The music and message of ‘Cold Fact’ had become as important to them as that of Jimi Hendrix to the US troops in Vietnam.