When the Buena Vista Social Orchestra convened for its inaugural performance in August, few in attendance knew what to expect. Steven Machat did. Having assembled the entourage with bandleader Jesus ...
Born and bred in Taiwan, Vincent Tsung-Yu Hsu is an award-winning bassist and composer who fuses jazz and Afro-Cuban music with his Taiwanese roots. Hsu was awarded a master’s degree in Jazz ...
To hear reparto in Havana, you don’t have to go far. It’s playing in every taxi, every café lining La Habana Vieja, on Friday nights at Don Cangrejo and Saturday mornings at Mio y Tuyo. A homemade mix ...
HAVANA — Cuban teenagers Fabio and Diego Abreu seem shy at first, but the moment they step on stage, they become confident, filling a concert hall in downtown Havana with a hypnotic form of ...
Chuck Lamb will join Jorge Gómez & the Cuban Fusion Jazz Collab and Ria Curley & the Nu-Soul-Jaz Collab for a show Tuesday at Putnam Place in Saratoga Springs. Singer-songwriter Ria Curley will bring ...
Acclaimed living legend of Afro-Cuban music, seven-time GRAMMY Award winner and six-time Latin GRAMMY Award winner Chucho Valdés celebrates his lauded 60-year recording career with an instant-classic, ...
To honor the closing of the exhibition Luis Cruz Azaceta: What a Wonderful World, VicJcom will perform contemporary Cuban music at Ogden Museum of Southern Art on Thursday, July 21, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Cuban teenagers Fabio and Diego Abreu seem shy at first, but the moment they step on stage, they become confident, filling a concert hall in downtown Havana with a hypnotic form of traditional jazz.
Whether it's art, music, dancing, or theater, the Seacoast entertainment scene has it all for you this weekend. Head to Portsmouth Music and Arts Center for an artist talk, dance the evening away to ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Local band Conjunto Philadelphia brings the music of pre-revolutionary Cuba to life, at venues across the area, including a standing gig at Bolo Restaurant in Rittenhouse every ...
Jesus “Aguaje” Ramos and the Buena Vista Orchestra transform the Vilar into a hot Havana nightclub on Wednesday. In the 1950s, a rotating group of musicians collectively known as the Buena Vista ...
Corrections & Clarifications: A previous article misidentified the schools where Mike Davison attended and taught. HAVANA — Two decades after the debut of the Buena Vista Social Club, it’s still ...