To celebrate the release of their new album Area 52 the duo are giving away a signed Yamaha NCX700 guitar…

All you have to do to be in with the chance of winning this amazing prize, including a copy of Rod y Gab's latest album Area 52, recorded with the C.U.B.A., is answer our simple question and leave your details below.

Area 52
Mexican acoustic rock duo Rodrigo y Gabriela released their new album on January 23rd 2012. Entitled 'Area 52', the album is their first recorded collaboration with another group of musicians; a thirteen piece Cuban orchestra composed of some of Havana's finest young players, collectively known as C.U.B.A.

Rodrigo explains why the album is called 'Area 52': “We felt like Mulder and Scully approaching this; it was just a crazy idea, to see if a big Cuban band could play our music, a step in the dark”.He adds: “we knew it was out there, everyone has heard of Area 51, but we wanted to take it a little further”.

Rod y Gab have sold in excess of 1.2 million albums. Earlier this year they collaborated with Hans Zimmer on 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' and their most recent oeuvre is on the soundtrack of Puss n'Boots. They have sold out world tours that span London to Los Angeles, Paris to Tokyo and Dublin to Sydney, in recent years they have worked with Robert Trujillo from Metallica, Zack De La Rocha from Rage Against The Machine, Al Di Meola, L Shankar, Alex Skolnick from Testament and Strunz & Farah.

Catch Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A. live in the UK and Ireland at the following venues:

Sunday 19th February – The Olympia, Dublin
Tuesday 21st February – The O2 Academy, Glasgow
Wednesday 22nd February – HMV Ritz, Manchester
Friday 24th February – The O2 Academy Brixton, London

Find out more at http://www.rodgab.com

Watch the video for 11:11 by Rodrigo y Gabriela feat. C.U.B.A. here.

Yamaha NCX700 Guitar
The NCX700 easily accommodates a wide range of musical and playing styles and offers the perfect place to start exploring your music and nylon string sound. The top is made from Solid Spruce with Nato back and sides and neck and a Rosewood Fingerboard. 

This competition is only open to UK entrants, and closes 12/03/12