Rodrigo y Gabriela, fusion and fun
David R. Stampone For The Inquirer The Dublin-based Mexican emigre acoustic guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela represent no less than a phenomenon, a hard-driving 21st-century popular music act with transcultural roots. Expansive fusions without dilution. Really. During their 90 minutes onstage Thursday at the Electric Factory, however, the most salient points were engagingly immediate – and head-spinning fun. There was Gab Quintero’s adorable smile, flashed as she rhythmically worked her guitar (sometimes pogoing), traded fret runs with Rodrigo, or acknowledged the crowd, adding the international rocker’s salute of extended index-and-pinkie-finger at song’s end. There was Rod Sánchez,… 
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