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Cuban National Music Award for Jose Luis Cortes, architect of timba

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  • Posted on 15/01/201818/10/2018

The Cuban National Music Award 2017 has been awarded to José Luis Cortés “El Tosco”,…

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  • Cuban Music

Punto Cubano included on UNESCO's list as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 06/12/201718/10/2018

The UNESCO Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage has decided this week to include "Punto Cubano" or "Punto Guajiro" (a sung genre of Cuban country music) in its representative list for 2017.

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Mali-Cuba: Music Across Generations – a new documentary

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/11/201706/06/2018

A new film documents a unique project bringing together children from two of the world’s…

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  • Cuban Music

La Linea London Latin Music Festival Returns in 2018 with Eliades Ochoa, Ariwo and more

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/11/201718/07/2018

“La Linea has spent years building an impressive international reputation as one of the world’s…

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  • Cuban Music

La Reyna y La Real: women and rappers against all odds

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 22/11/201706/06/2018

Yadira Pintado, La Real, is a native of the Havana neighborhood of Jesús María. She…

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  • Cuban Dance

A Salsa music hug: Cuban record label promotes salsa collaboration with Puerto Rico

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 16/11/201725/04/2018

Cuban record label promotes salsa collaboration with Puerto Rico with top Cuban singers Yumurí,Mayito Rivera, Haila, El Indio, Tania Pantoja and others

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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?
Happy Birthday to the FAC Fábrica de Arte Cubano - in Havana - 7 years today!
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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