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Following up on the critical success of their dazzling Bachata Roja collection released earlier this year, New York-based indie label iASO records presents The Bachata Roja Legends Tour - which features the U.S. debut of several of the legendary Dominican musicians who appeared on the original album.

Bachata Roja Legends brings together three icons of the Dominican Republic's roots bachata tradition, singers Ramon Cordero, "El Chivo Sin Ley" (a.k.a. Isidro Cabrera Orlando) and guitar giant Edilio Paredes. These pioneering veterans are joined by emerging bachata star, singer-guitarist, Joan "El Duque" Soriano.

As documented in the critically-acclaimed collection Bachata Roja: Acoustic Bachata from the Cabaret Era, these unsung heroes charted the course of bachata music's rise to international popularity; creating one of the greatest Afro-Caribbean dance styles, while struggling under decades of censorship.

Novelist Junot Díaz, whose Pulitizer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao engaged the same era of Dominican history, heaped praise on Bachata Roja and a related iASO recording from balladeer Puerto Plata. "These albums are some of the best I've heard in a long damn time," said Díaz. "World Music this is not—but a magic bullet for the heart and the mind."

Bachata Roja's romantic, guitar-driven ballads and irresistible dance rhythms represent the roots of today's pop bachata—a multi-million dollar genre that's a staple of contemporary Latin radio and this tour is a unique opportunity to see and hear the originators play this music live.

Tour Dates:

June 26, 6:30 p.m., Chicago's Millennium Park Stage
July 20, 6:30 p.m., Baltimore's Artscape Festival
July 24, 7:30 p.m., Santa Monica's Pier Twilight Dance Series
August 1, 8:00 p.m., New York, Queens Theatre in the Park Latino Cultural Festival