Guitarricadelafuente Blends Pop and Folk Magic at Bowery Ballroom
-
Backstage Hangs
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone
Guitarricadelafuente and his team take some time to chat before the show.
-
Full-Time Papi
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone
Guitarricadelafuente opened the show with “Full-Time Papi” and shared how excited he was to be at Bowery Ballroom for the first time.
-
Celestial Notes
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone
Guitarricadelafuente puts his voice, a mix of folk techniques and pop qualities, front and center as he sings songs from throughout his discography.
-
All Together
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone
Fans had been looking forward to the singer-songwriter coming to New York for months.
-
All Álvaro
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone
Guitarricadelafuente, whose real name is Álvaro Lafuente Calvo, says he’s been looking forward to this show. “This tour feels like opening a diary I wrote at home and reading it out loud in front of people,” he tells Rolling Stone. “There’s something very vulnerable about that.”
-
Opening Highlights
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone
Whalebone gets the crowd excited before Guitarricadelafuente’s set.
-
“We Need to Get There Now, Girls!”
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone
The singer-songwriter focused on songs from his latest album Spanish Leather, which made Rolling Stone’s list of Best Albums of 2025.
-
Star Quality
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone
“I’m really looking forward to seeing how the songs stop being just mine and start belonging to everyone who sings them with me,” he says. “Every city has its own energy, and that changes everything.”
-
Backstage Brilliance
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone
Guitarricadelafuente just before he prepares to get onstage. He’ll tour the rest of the U.S. and then hit several festivals in 2026.
-
Represent!
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone
Guitarricadelafuente drapes a flag over his shoulders after a fan throws into the crowd.
-
Banding Together
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone
Guitarricadelafuente brought several of his musicians onstage with a full band.
-
Final Bow
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone
The band thanks the crowd and takes one last bow after the set.
-
Songs For All
Image Credit: Maria-Juliana Rojas for Rolling Stone
“While I was working on Spanish Leather, it was a very intimate, almost secret space. Now it’s a place people enter with their own memories and emotions,” Guitarricadelafuente says. “It moves me to see something so personal become a mirror for others.”
Source involved in this report: Read Original Article
