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6 great Cuban love songs

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 14/02/202214/02/2022

Did Cubans invent the love song? Many great love songs of undying love, or loss…

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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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  • Past events

Ahmed Dickinson Cardenas & Eduardo Martín ‘The Bridge’, UK tour 8 April – 21 May 2022

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 23/01/202226/06/2022

Ahmed pairs up with his former mentor, grammy-nominated Eduardo, both amazing Cuban acoustic guitarists to…

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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 Dance

Watch 7 top Cuban salsa groups perform their latest tracks

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 31/12/2021

“Tira tu pasillo” translates roughly as “throw down your dance moves!” Watch this very recent…

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  • Past events

Roberto Fonseca: UK tour dates 19-24 April 2022

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/12/202126/06/2022

Born in 1975 in Havana, Cuba, Roberto Fonseca has established himself as one of the…

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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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  • News from Cuba

2021 Community Culture award winners announced in Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/10/2021

The singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez, the group Teatro Los Elementos and the project Orquesta de Guitarras…

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  • Past events

Competition: Win the Buena Vista Social Club 25th Anniversary Edition double album!

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 18/10/202122/12/2021

You could win a copy of the new Buena Vista Social Club 25th Anniversary double…

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  • Reviews

Review of Buena Vista Social Club 25th Anniversary edition album

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 18/10/2021

A quarter of a century ago, Nick Gold and Juan de Marcos González, along with…

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  • News from Cuba

Timbalaye festival in Cuba: women in rumba + concert video

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/09/2021

This September the 13th edition of Cuba’s festival of rumba known as Timbalaye Festival took…

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  • Cuban Music

Cuban Legend Adalberto Álvarez Dies at 72

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 04/09/202118/10/2021

Celebrated Cuban composer, arranger, pianist, and conductor, Adalberto Álvarez died on September 1, 2021 of…

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  • Cuban Music

The Bolero is declared National Cultural Heritage in Cuba

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/08/202126/06/2022

The bolero, a vocal, instrumental and danceable genre of the song movement in Cuba, has…

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  • Cuban Music

Celebrations for the centenary of Cuban musician Ñico Rojas

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/07/202101/01/2022

August 3 marks the centenary of the birth of the Cuban musician José Antonio Rojas,…

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  • Reviews

Cuba Music and Revolution – Culture clash in Havana Cuba: Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 28/07/202130/07/2021

Review of CD: Cuba Music and Revolution – Culture clash in Havana Cuba: Experiments in…

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