On October 20, Cuba’s “Day of National Culture,” singer-songwriter Gerardo Alfonso was invited to perform during “Trovando” (“Troubadouring”), a program held every Wednesday under the direction of Fidel Diaz, the editor of the cultural magazine Caiman Barbudo (The Bearded Cayman). The set couldn’t have been any more welcoming since it offered free admission and no restrictions of any type. (8 photos)
Read MoreSinger Omara Portuondo, actress and director Veronica Lynn; the city of Havana historian, Eusebio Leal; pianist and composer Frank Fernandez, editor and critic Ambrosio Fornet, radio program writer Alberto Luberta, and playwright and cultural promoter Ramon Silverio received the highest distinction granted by the youth organization. (20 photos)
Read MoreCuba’s famed jazz pianist/composer Chucho Valdes and his new band the Afro-Cuban Messengers are performing tonight and Saturday at the Jazz at Lincoln Center venue in New York City.
Read MoreOrganizing the exhibition “Queloides: Racism and Race in Cuban Contemporary Art” has been a mix of obstacles, audacity, and adventure. The exhibit, which opens this Friday at the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh, was first shown earlier this year in Havana and the curator Alejandro de la Fuente was unable to attend.
Read MoreThe Tun Tun Piano Bar is a pleasant place though distant from the center of the capital; it’s located on 35th Avenue and 20th St. in the Miramar/ Playa area. On Saturdays from 5:00 in the afternoon to 9:00 at night, come various trova musicians from different generations to offer their lyrical passages to the rhythm of guitar strings behind shots of rum.
Read MoreThe 3rd Humberto Solás Non-Budget Film Festival Thematic Exhibition will begin today in Old Havana with debates and the projection of around 50 audiovisuals related to the environment and gender in the seventh art, reported IPS quoting Sergio Benvenuto, director of that event held every year in the eastern city of Gibara..
Read MoreFrom the generation of musicians who rose to fame in the 1990s, the work of Kelvis Ochoa fuses eastern Cuban rhythms (sucu sucu, guaracha, montuno son, conga, trova, etc.) with foreign, more modern melodies such as rock and the ballad.
Read MoreCuban rock ‘n’ roll, once an underground movement, is being mapped for inclusion in an exhaustive compendium of Latin American rock — from the music itself to its transformation into a lifestyle. The project’s promoters say the Cuban rock music “map” will serve as a guide, a way to open doors, and as a historical record of a musical genre imported and kept for decades deep in the cultural underground.
Read MoreThe Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra opened its concert “Connections of Jazz between the USA and Cuba” on Wednesday with the “African-American Cuban Suite,” a piece by Cuban-born Chico O’Farril. It was played for the first time in our country and applauded enthusiastically by everyone present. (10 photos)
Read MoreIn addition to the clarinet and all its musical family, Ernesto knows the mysteries of the sax. He composes and on this occasion directed a fine group of young musicians: Michael Olivera (drums), Jorge Luis Pacheco (piano), David Falla (bass) and Alejandro Delgado (trumpet). (15 photos)
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