Geo, the man with the teeny-weeny guitar at Union Square

In his dog-eat-dog hurry to make a buck, Recharger sometimes forgets to stop and smell the music. The cool thing about Geo is his teeny weeny, um, guitar. Geovanni Suquillo, from Valle de Chillos, Ecuador, lives in Astoria, Queens and his teeny guitar is called a charango. For 12 years, he’s been part of the Music Under New York program (MUNY), run by the MTA, (Recharger loves the MTA), playing his charango in the subways three times a week. The charango, Geo tells us, has 10 nylon strings and is originally from the Andes (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia). Geo’s charango plays songs from Russia and Spain, as well as South America. Play, Geo, play.

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