Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: Yasser Tejeda & Palotré

Every year, NPR Music participates in the SXSW music festival, whether it’s curating a stage or simply attending hundreds of shows at the annual event in Austin, Texas. Last year, the festival was canceled due to the pandemic, but it returned this March as an online festival. We programmed a ’stage’ of Tiny Desk (home) concerts and presented them on the final day of the festival. Now, we present to you Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: four videos filmed in various locations, all of them full of surprises. Felix Contreras | April 6, 2021 If only I could have experienced Yasser Tejeda and Palotré at one of the bars along Austin’s Sixth Street. Tejeda, a New York-based guitarist from the Dominican Republic, started his musical career on the Dominican cuatro (a folkloric guitar-like instrument) and has incorporated guitar stylings that have made him a “go-to guy“ for Dominican artists looking for passionate elegance in their sound. Yasser Tejeda and his band Palotré begin