Eguie Castrillo & His Orchestra

FEATURING: Tim Mayer, Janous Kowarsky, Daryl Lowery, Bob Bowlby, Nir Naaman - saxes, Marcos Lopez & Marcos Torres - Percussion, Uziel Colon - Piano, Alex Albear - Bass, Angel Subero, Chris Gagney, & Robyn Amy - Trombones, John Repogly, Greg Hopkins- Trumpets &  Manolo Mairena - Singer.

While Castrillo has made a good living playing congas, his first love remains the timbales. It had been his dream since 1989 to be a timbalero leading a large ensemble playing mambos, cha-chas, and rumbas in a salute to the 1950s Palladium era in New York. "When Tito Puente passed away in 2000, I went to the funeral, stood by his casket, and made a promise that I would try to carry on the tradition he started. I want to bring the mambo back with some new touches."

While Castrillo feels that Puente left big shoes to fill, he wants to do what he can to keep the music alive. "I want to continue passing on knowledge and stories to my audience for them to do the same thing".