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Afro-Cuban roots-fusion group Sintesis wins Latin Grammy for ‘Ancestros Sinfonico’

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/11/2022

This November Cuban supergroup Síntesis (‘synthesis’ in English) won a Latin Grammy ‘Best Folkloric album’…

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Rogelio Martínez Furé, prominent Cuban folklorist, ethnologist and researcher

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 12/10/202212/10/2022

The outstanding Cuban folklorist, ethnologist and researcher and national prize for Literature Rogelio Martínez Furé died…

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  • Cuban Film

The People of the Documentary: a love letter to American people

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 15/08/2022

This August the Gibara film festival near Holguin in Cuba was screening a new Cuban…

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  • News from Cuba

Baracoa celebrates festival of the four C’s: Cuba, Cacao, Coconut and Coffee

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 15/08/2022

This August the small city of Baracoa on the far eastern tip of the coast…

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The Caribbean that unites us – the Fiesta del Fuego sets Santiago de Cuba alight

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 08/07/202219/01/2023

The fire of the Caribbean rekindles its flames in Santiago de Cuba this July with…

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  • Cuban Music

The winners of the Cubadisco awards in 2022

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/06/202219/01/2023

This May, the Cuban music industry awards CUBADISCCO took place in person and online. The…

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  • Cuban Music

JAZZ PLAZA – Cuba’s annual international jazz festival in person and online 18-23 January 2022

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 23/01/202223/01/2022

Six days of jazz – concerts, colloquiums, conferences, video presentations, following all covid-19 rules, Jazz…

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  • Cuban Dance

60 years of the Conjunto Folclorico Nacional de Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 16/01/2022

This year Cuba’s national folkloric group celebrates its 60th birthday and despite the restrictions of…

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  • Cuban Music

Cuban composer José María Vitier is awarded the 2021 National Music Prize

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 02/01/202203/01/2022

The Cuban pianist, composer and arranger José María Vitier (Havana, January 7, 1954) was awarded…

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  • Cuban Art

Cuban artist Alberto Lescay receives the 2021 National Visual Arts award

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/12/202108/10/2022

Painter and sculptor from Santiago de Cuba, Alberto Lescay Merencio, has this week been awarded…

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  • Cuban Film

Short films bring humour, psychological terror and feminism at the Havana International Film festival

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 20/12/2021

Short stories are part of the creative impulse to rethink the dynamics of the Latin…

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  • Cuban Music

Silvio Rodríguez: “It was quite logical that expressions of exhaustion appeared in Cuba”

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 07/12/2021

Interview by Claudio Vergara published by La Tercera, 27/11/21 Silvio Rodríguez’s 2021 diary has been…

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  • Cuban Art

Yes to the Havana Biennial! Art floods Havana from November to April

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 13/11/202126/06/2022

More than 300 artists, gallery owners, promoters, critics and theorists from various disciplines from Latin…

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  • News from Cuba

Havana: one of the world’s most desirable cities

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 13/11/2021

Havana ranked fourth in the category of Most Desirable Cities, in the Wanderlust Travel Awards…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuba marks 135 years since the abolition of slavery

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/10/2021

On 18 October 2021 Cuba marked 135 years since the abolition of slavery on the…

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