Mateo y Las Manos Pesadas

Mateo y Las Manos Pesadas is a fusion of minstrel on the edge with Latin American percussion and passion. The songs and performance are a chronicle of a spiritual and musical journey. Most often armed with only an acoustic guitar, Mateo is not a pastoral troubadour-though his music can be gentle and conversational- more often it cuts a raw, jagged edge; intense and white hot. Hailing from Colorado, and traveling extensively throughout Latin America, this idea was born. Mateo's live performances, solo and with his hard-hitting aggregation of players, are cathartic experiences, balancing whimsical narrative with the western parable, pounding polemics with personality, humor and vision. "The live performance in me is like a beast," laughs Mateo, "When I am playing music, even if only a one person is listening in some tiny bar, it's such an honor to be up there; it does me a world of good."