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Having a good time – review of CD Pupy y Los que Son Son: Pasandola Bien

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/01/2021

Cuban salsa maestro César Pedroso, otherwise known as Pupy, knows his audience. His tumbaos, the…

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  • Cuban Music

Cuba’s Jazz Plaza 2021 goes online this January

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 22/01/202123/01/2021

This January is Cuba’s 36th Jazz Plaza Festival and not wanting to cancel it due…

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  • Cuban Music

Huberal Herrera Lescano and Edesio Alejandro jointly win the Cuban National Music Prize 2020

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/11/202019/12/2020

This week the jury of the 2020 National Music Award, made up of Digna Guerra,…

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  • Cuban Music

DJ Green Papi’s 5 Cuban music tracks you must listen to and why

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/11/202019/12/2020

Living in London originally from eastern Cuba, Ernesto J. Green Rután, known as DJ Green…

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  • Cuban Music

8 May declared Day of the Cuban son

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 18/10/2020

May 8 has been declared ‘Day of the Cuban Son’ in homage to this music-dance…

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  • Cuban Music

Ten of our favourite new tracks in 2020 from the Cuban Egrem label – watch and listen now

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 17/10/202019/12/2020

From Cuban record label Egrem’s most popular tracks online this year – salsa timba, jazz,…

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  • Cuban Music

Cuban musicians nominated for Latin Grammys 2020

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 11/10/202007/02/2021

Cuban music and musicians garnered most of the nominations in the 2020 Latin Grammy’s Best…

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  • Cuban Music

Cuban minister criticizes US media campaign against Cuban artists, especially musician Alexander Abreu

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 17/09/202024/09/2020

Cuba’s Minister for Culture, Alpidio Alonso, criticized US media campaign against Cuban artists including the…

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  • Cuban Music

Concert for Cuba: A tribute to Cuban doctors

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/07/202021/07/2020

Cuban artists including Los Van Van and Alexander Abreu, plus US artists Tom Morello, Michael…

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  • Cuban Music

Check out these 10 new Cuban music tracks and videos released during quarantine

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 13/05/202019/12/2020

Here are 10 diverse Cuban music tracks with videos, composed or released during this time…

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  • Cuban Music

For International Jazz Day – the legacy of Irakere + young Cuban jazz stars looking to the future

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/04/202018/07/2020

To celebrate #InternationalJazzDay this 30 April – watch this interview with Chucho Valdes — Cuban…

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  • Cuban Music

Cuban musicians offer concerts from home online, on radio and television

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 03/04/202004/08/2020

With the suspension of cultural activities in Cuba, as part of efforts to stem the…

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  • Cuban Music

CD Review: Roberto Fonseca: Yesun “The album I always wanted to make”

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/01/202018/07/2020

The first track on Roberto Fonseca’s 2001 breakthrough album ‘No Limit’ was dedicated to Yemaya,…

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  • Cuban Dance

Review of ‘Herencia’ documentary on Cuba’s African heritage

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 02/01/202024/09/2020

When Spanish journalist Ana Hurtado went to Cuba for the first time a few years…

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  • Cuban Music

Omar Puente: “passing on my knowledge to a new generation”

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 05/09/2019

Internationally acclaimed Cuban violinist Omar Puente is performing a special show in London this November…

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On a day like today 20 February the wonderful Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer was born in 1927. He passed away 15 years ago but his memory lives on with so many great Cuban songs. He was a great singer of son but sang many boleros with buena vista social club. Which is your favourite Ibrahim Ferrer track?
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Fatima Patterson is a top Cuban theatre actor, director and playwright, celebrating her 70th birthday this week. With her company Macuba she has dedicated the last 30 years to making amazing theatre embedded physically, narratively and spiritually in her home town of Santiago de Cuba. In this recent interview she talks about her approach to theatre, her themes, and her view on the way forward for artists out of the pandemic.
“Con todos, y para el bien de todos” (With everyone and for the benefit of everyone)
New documentary 'Castro's Spies' will make its debut in the UK screened online from 26 February as part of the Glasgow Film Festival.
From 19-24 January Cuba's world-renowned festival #JazzPlaza2021 is offering many hours of live performances, descargas, master classes and discussions online. What is on offer is incredible so if you are a Cuban music or jazz fan you must feast on it now!

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