Category Archives: Performances

Rodriguez to play Ann Arbor Folk Festival in January 2013

Rodriguez, aka Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, Rod Riguez, and Jesus Rodriguez, released a pair of albums, “Cold Fact” and “Coming from Reality,” in 1970 and 1971. His music was influenced by Bob Dylan’s, but it had the hard edge of his native Detroit and was often political in nature. It went nowhere in America, and RodriguezContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez to play Ann Arbor Folk Festival in January 2013”

Rodriguez – Live At Royal Festival Hall, London | Reviews | Clash Magazine

  If you don’t know the story of Rodriguez yet, then don’t read this – go and watch this year’s amazing documentary Searching for Sugar Man, then come back to us. For those who know the tale behind the man, you may still be in a sense of awe that he is here: one halfContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez – Live At Royal Festival Hall, London | Reviews | Clash Magazine”

Review: Rodriguez at LJF 2012

I first heard about the singer-songwriter Sixto Diaz Rodriguez when a film charting his life, Searching For Sugar Man, was in the news earlier this year. The BBC called him “the musician who never knew he was famous,” and I was fascinated by his story. Rodriguez released a couple of albums in the States inContinueContinue reading “Review: Rodriguez at LJF 2012”

Rodriguez chats to Jools Holland, 16 November 2012 | BBC Two

Rodriguez chats to Jools Holland on Later… http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01187hp Rodriguez performs Crucify Your Mind on Later… with Jools Holland. http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/showcase/clips/p011855b

Searching for Sugar Man – an evening with RODRIGUEZ | The Belfast Empire Music Hall

“SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN – AN EVENING WITH RODRIGUEZ” with special guest DAVID HOLMES It’s one of the lost classics of the ’60s, a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in colour and inspired by life, love, poverty, rebellion. The album is Cold Fact, and what’s more intriguing is that its maker – a shadowy figure known as RodriguezContinueContinue reading “Searching for Sugar Man – an evening with RODRIGUEZ | The Belfast Empire Music Hall”

A Day In The Life: Rodriguez :: Blogs :: 1000 Words :: Paste

When Sixto Rodriguez recorded his debut album Cold Fact in 1969, he dreamed of pop stardom. But, far from the epicentre of the late ’60s folkie scene, the Detroit-based son of Mexican immigrants found that his defining statement was criminally overlooked. Rodriguez went back to reality, working as a gas station attendant, studying philosophy, campaigningContinueContinue reading “A Day In The Life: Rodriguez :: Blogs :: 1000 Words :: Paste”

Mango Groove at Kirstenbosch Gardens on Sunday 2 December 2012.

Mango Groove at Old Mutual Summer Sunset Concerts at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens – Sunday 2 December 2012. Shake it up Cape Town, Mango Groove will be back in the mother city for their first and only 2012 show in Cape Town at Kirstenbosch Gardens on Sunday 2 December 2012. If their past two soldContinueContinue reading “Mango Groove at Kirstenbosch Gardens on Sunday 2 December 2012.”

Rodriguez / Big Concerts

The Mexican-American singer-songwriter known simply as, “Rodriguez” had been working on his music career in Detroit since the early 1960s. He recorded an album in 1969 that many believed was going to secure his reputation as one of the greatest recording artists of his generation. Instead, Cold Fact bombed and the Rodriguez seemingly disappeared intoContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez / Big Concerts”

CHANGE means…being raised from the dead « My Rite of Passage

Some people refer to Sixto Rodriguez as the Jesus rock star because he rose from a lifetime of obscurity in his home country to stardom, albeit in a faraway land on a different continent. And even there, despite his cult status in South Africa, he was believed to be dead due to a myth thatContinueContinue reading “CHANGE means…being raised from the dead « My Rite of Passage”

Cape Town gets extra Rodriguez show | Channel24

Cape Town – Big Concerts announced on Wednesday that an extra Cape Town show has been added for legendary singer-songwriter Rodriguez’s tour to South Africa in 2013. With three sold-out shows so far, the extra performance was added due to an overwhelming demand and will be taking place on Thursday, 21 February 2013, a dayContinueContinue reading “Cape Town gets extra Rodriguez show | Channel24”

Rodriguez w/ Jenny O – House of Blues Bronze Peacock Room – Houston, TX – REVIEW – HoustonMusicReview.com

Several weeks ago I was watching Sixty Minutes after the ball game and saw a segment on “Rodriguez: The Rock Icon That Didn’t Know It” and one of the songs that was featured aroused an old scratchy vinyl memory. It came up from someplace between Dylan and Donovan, Phil Ochs and Gil Scott-Heron. I knewContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez w/ Jenny O – House of Blues Bronze Peacock Room – Houston, TX – REVIEW – HoustonMusicReview.com”

Rodriguez concert raises the question: What if?

‘Are there any Africans in the house?” joked Sixto Diaz Rodriguez as he took the stage at a sold-out World Cafe Live on Sunday night. As fate would have it, the 70-year-old psych-folk singer from Detroit owes his belated fame to the people of South Africa. After his two critically acclaimed, early-1970s albums flopped inContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez concert raises the question: What if?”

Rodriguez To Tour South Africa in Feb 2013

Big Concerts have announced that Rodriguez will be touring South Africa in February 2013, with concerts in Johannesburg and Cape Town. 15 February 2013 – Carnival City, Big Top Arena http://online.computicket.com/web/event/rodriguez/686923210/0/51320976 20 February 2013 – Grand West Arena Cape Town http://online.computicket.com/web/event/rodriguez/686923210/0/51320995  

Press Release: Up the Creek Music Festival 2013

UP THE CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL BROUGHT TO YOU BY 4TH STREET, SWELLENDAM: 31 JANUARY – 3RD FEBRUARY 2013. One river, three stages, four days, loads of music and comedy and festival goers with a passion for some of South Africa`s best music in common – get ready for Up the Creek 2013 brought to youContinueContinue reading “Press Release: Up the Creek Music Festival 2013”

Rodriguez November UK dates – updated

November 14 The Roundhouse London, England November 16 The Roundhouse London, England November 17 London Jazz Festival at Royal Festival Hall London, England November 18 The Roundhouse London, England November 22 Philharmonic Hall Liverpool, England November 24 Sage Gateshead Newcastle, UK November 25 Usher Hall Edinburgh, Scotland November 27 Vicar Street Dublin, Ireland November 28ContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez November UK dates – updated”