Just in is the October Cultural Calendar for Havana put together by the Cuba Absolutely web site. For a look at the happenings in music, dance, theater and the visual arts in the Cuban capital click here.
Read More“Two Who Love Each Other” is the new television program of Cuba’s self-proclaimed artistic vanguard. The airing of the program relates to the personal interests of its host and director, singer-songwriter Amaury Perez, who is attempting to exhibit to the public a select list of “cultured” Cubans.
Read MoreThe New York Lincoln Center jazz band, headed by U.S. trumpet player Wynton Marsalis, will give four concerts between October 5 and 9 in Cuba, where it will perform with pianist Chucho Valdés, the local press reported. This visit is one more among the growing cultural exchange between both countries, promoted by President Barack Obama.
Read MoreFor the artists of “Proyecto Huellas” (Project Imprints), the crossroads village of Cantarrana has a special allure. On the block where they decided to establish themselves, they were welcomed with the same naturalness that locals receive the sun in the morning or the pestilent scent of the river that runs nearby.
Read MoreOn the patio of the Asociacion Cubana de Derecho de Autor Musical* (ACDAM), every third Thursday of the month —and for free— singer-songwriter Angel Quintero provides an intimate serenade to those gathered there. (x photos)
Read MoreThe idea that moves through this theme from one end to the other is that all of us, at some moment, have been fallen angels, souls that come to us from another dimension. With pure souls, we fall into this world built by the greed of other angels who lost their wings a long time ago, but who adapted.
Read MoreCuban President Raúl Castro and his brother Fidel should work “so that the Revolution is not left in the air and a group of opportunists who are already (close to them) in power do not take over” the island, singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés, one of the founders of the New Song Movement, said in an interview published by Brazil’s OEstado de Sao Paulo daily.
Read MoreCuba’s singer/songwriter Silvio Rodriguez opened the Voices for Juarez concert on Friday in the border city plagued by violence. The concert took place at the Benito Juarez Olympic Stadium and also included the Mexican artist Lila Downs and salsero Willie Colon.
Read MoreIt must be incredible to come back from the dead. That’s what Fidel has done, one more entry in his book of innumerable combats. I have a journalist friend in California, an expert in all things Cuban, who has been waiting four years for Fidel to die just so she can despair.
Read MoreOne of Cuba’s banner dance troupes, Danza Contemporanea, is currently touring Australia and received a highly favorable critique by the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday. The group troupe is performing for US $37 – $56 a ticket at the Playhouse through September 18.
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