Hermanos Gutiérrez open the North American leg of their Los Ojos Del Cóndor tour at Vancouver's Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Thursday, September 24, 2026. It is the first night of the run, and it falls one day before the album that shares its name is released on Dan Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster.
Key details
- Who: Hermanos Gutiérrez, the Swiss-Ecuadorian brothers Alejandro and Estevan Gutiérrez
- What: the Los Ojos Del Cóndor tour, opening night of the North American leg
- When: Thursday, September 24, 2026
- Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
- The album: Los Ojos Del Cóndor, 10 tracks, out September 25, 2026 on Easy Eye Sound and produced by Dan Auerbach
- Lead single: "Canto Andino"
- Tickets: on sale via Ticketmaster
A duo that never needs a chorus
Alejandro and Estevan Gutiérrez have built one of the more unlikely followings in contemporary guitar music. The brothers, raised in Switzerland by an Ecuadorian mother, make instrumental records built from twinned electric and acoustic guitars, brushed percussion and a great deal of open space. There are no vocals and no obvious hooks, and yet the pair have spent the past few years graduating from clubs to theatres across North America and Europe, a decade and six albums into their career.
Much of that momentum traces back to Dan Auerbach, who signed the duo to his Easy Eye Sound label and has produced their recent work at his Nashville studio. Their 2024 album Sonido Cósmico pushed the project further into the desert-noir territory that first drew listeners in. The new record moves the compass south and up.
What Los Ojos Del Cóndor is about
Recorded with Auerbach at Easy Eye Sound, the 10-track album takes its title from the condor that appears on the flag of Ecuador. The brothers have described it as a deliberate turn away from the American Southwest imagery of their earlier work and toward the Andes, drawing on their great-grandfather's Peruvian roots along with Argentine milonga and Peruvian-Colombian cumbia rhythms.
"This is a love letter to South America," Alejandro Gutiérrez said when the album was announced in June. Lead single "Canto Andino" sets the tone: a bright, almost pastoral melody that keeps sliding back down into low, clouded slide-guitar tones, which the brothers have compared to the way weather turns in the mountains.
Why the Vancouver date matters
Tour openers are their own kind of event. Vancouver gets the first performance of this material in North America, played the night before anyone can stream the finished record, which means much of the set will land on a room hearing it cold. The Queen Elizabeth Theatre is also a sensible match for the music. This is a duo whose dynamics run from a whisper to a swell and back, and a seated hall with proper acoustics serves that far better than a bar.
From Vancouver the run works down through the Pacific Northwest before reaching Denver and the Southwest, with stops in Albuquerque and Phoenix, plus a series of previously announced dates supporting Jack Johnson that include two nights at the Hollywood Bowl. The European leg begins November 13 in Gdańsk and closes with back-to-back hometown shows in Zurich on December 20 and 21.
Frequently asked questions
When do Hermanos Gutiérrez play Vancouver?
Thursday, September 24, 2026 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in downtown Vancouver. It is the opening night of the North American leg of the Los Ojos Del Cóndor tour.
Where can I buy tickets?
Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. You can find the rest of the fall calendar on our Vancouver concert listings.
Is the whole show instrumental?
Yes. Hermanos Gutiérrez perform as a guitar duo and their catalogue contains no lead vocals, so expect an evening of instrumental music drawn from the new album and from records including Sonido Cósmico and El Bueno Y El Malo.
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