Cuban folk singer Silvio Rodriguez presented his latest CD, “Segunda Cita” (Second date) on Friday at the Casa de las Americas cultural center in Havana. Rodriguez performed songs from the album with top musicians including Robertico Carcasses (piano), Feliciano Arango (stand up bass), Oliver Valdés (drums and percussion), Niurka Gonzalez (flute) y Haydée Milanés (chorus).
Read MoreThe talk of Havana this week has been the Calle 13 hip hop concert that brought out a reported over 200,000 people to the Anti-Imperialist Plaza on Tuesday afternoon. Here HT presents more photos from the concert, these from photographer Elio Delgado. (16 photos)
Read MoreHere are some additional music happenings for Saturday and Sunday March 27-28 and Monday March 29 in Havana at the Casa de la Musica (Miramar), Cafe Cantante and the Delirio Habanaero clubs.
Read MoreThe jazz group Aire de Concierto performs on Saturday, March 27 at the National Fine Arts Museum in Old Havana.
Read MoreSinger Lynn Milanes holds two peñas each week. On Saturday’s at the Fresa and Chocolate Gallery and on Friday’s at the Bertold Bretch Theater.
Read MoreIndustriales brought its fans to their feet time and time again with five home runs on Friday in a 12-6 route over Villa Clara in game three of their best-of-seven championship baseball series.
Read MoreCarlos married an English woman in 2003, but he didn’t travel immediately to England. First he went to his native province in the east of the country to visit to his family. There he met a woman with whom he could have shared the rest of his life if he had met her earlier, but he was already a married man and his future seemed decided.
Read MoreA brigade of Cuban visual and performing artists have been in Haiti as a cultural complement to the island’s on-going health care assistance in the neighboring Caribbean island country. Conner Gorry is writing a blog from Haiti for mediccglobal and here is her latest entry.
Read MoreThe Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) will hold a summit on April 19 in Caracas, Venezuela. The announcement came on Thursday from Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro when he spoke to the press after a meeting with Cuban Vice President Ricardo Cabrisas to discuss bilateral cooperation and projects in support of Haiti.
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