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Eliades Ochoa, star of Buena Vista Social Club, 11 November 2022, London

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 23/09/202219/01/2023

The Star of Buena Vista Social Club makes a rare London appearance. Eliades is known…

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  • Cuban Music

Trova – The Cuban sound of voice and guitar

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 15/08/202207/07/2023

Trova – the intimate Cuban sound of guitars and vocal harmonies singing poetic lyrics –…

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Competition: Win tickets to see Maykel Blanco y su Salsa Mayor, London – 27 August 2022

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 22/07/202223/09/2022

We have a pair of hot tickets to win to see Maykel Blanco y su…

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Competition: Win tickets to see Cimafunk, London – 28 July

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 22/07/202215/08/2022

We have a pair of hot tickets to win to see CIMAFUNK, courtesy of promotors…

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  • Cuban Music

What is Son Cubano?

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 21/07/202223/07/2025

Son is a vocal and instrumental dance genre, which constitutes one of the basic forms…

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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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Los Van Van – 31 July 2022, London

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 26/06/202215/08/2022

This year Los Van Van, Cuba’s best known and longest running “train” of dance music,…

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Maykel Blanco y su Salsa Mayor – Saturday 27 August 2022, London

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 01/05/202208/10/2022

Maykel Blanco y su Salsa Mayor, London Bank Holiday weekend – Saturday 27 August 2022,…

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Review of film: Mambo Man

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 10/04/2022

Back in 2017 UK music producer Mo Fini set out to make a film set…

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  • Cuban Film

UK Film premiere: Mambo Man, London 28 April 2022

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 10/04/202226/06/2022

Premiere of new feature film Mambo Man, set in Bayamo in rural eastern Cuba, with…

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  • Past events

Ran Kan Kan – Viva!, Sat 12 March 2022, Oxford

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 05/03/202214/03/2022

Ran Kan Kan are back – conjuring the mambos, rumba and son montuno classics from the golden years of Cuban…

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  • Cuban Music

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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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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