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CALIENTE! Latin Music Festival The finest in Latin, Brasil and Caribbean Culture

Every year in summer , Zürich is gripped by the Caliente fever, when the biggest festival of Latin American culture in the German-speaking region takes place during the first weekend in July.

Fiesta del Tambor: a Celebration of Cuban soul

By Ciro Bianchi Ross

The seventeenth edition of the Fiesta del Tambor percussion festival, held annually in memory of Guillermo Barreto, took place in Havana recently, an explosion of Cuban soul. The week-long festival brought together Cuba’s best percussionists, rumberos, dance companies and popular Cuban bands at Havana’s top cultural venues.

Foreign Participants Confirmed at Cuban Guitar Contest

Prensa Latina

At least 15 musicians from different countries will participate from April 22 to 29 at the 15th Festival and the International Guitar Competition of Havana, the organizers of the event confirmed.

Bright Future for Cuban Percussion Assured

By Mercedes Ramos Photos Tito

The security of having a relay assured for Cuban percussion was the main result of the 17th Fiesta del Tambor “Guillermo Barreto in Memoriam”, event that concluded in this capital after a week of activities.

Percussion Festival Opened its 17th Edition in Havana

By Mercy Ramos Photos Jose Meriño

The 17th Fiesta del Tambor opened in Havana with the performance of the most famous Cuban percussionists and renowned foreign musicians, who turned the Mella Theater into a real musical paradise.

Musicology Award Ceremony to Honor Cuban Scholar Argeliers Leon

Prensa Latina

The centennial of Cuban music scholar Argeliers León will be marked by the 16th edition of the Musicology Award given by Casa de las Americas, to be held in Havana from March 12 thru 16, announced organizers.

Drums are holding their annual festival in Cuba

By Mercy Ramos Photos Jose Meriño

Havana will become next week the world capital of the drums when the theaters open their doors to receive to the best Cuban percussionists and renewed musicians from several countries.

International expert considers the prospects of Cuba’s musical industry

Prensa Latina

Jordy Puy, co-founder of the Sound Diplomacy International Consultancy, considers the potential of the Cuba’s musical industry like development source, during a workshop supported by national and foreign representatives recently closed in Santiago de Cuba.

Van Van’s Legacy Album a world success

By Martha Cabrales Arias

Legacy, the most recent Van Van orchestra’s, album is already a great success in the world, declared in Santiago de Cuba Samuel Formell, the director of this legendary orchestra considered El tren de la musica cubana (the Cuban music train).

Salsa Festival kicked off in Cuba

Prensa Latina

The third edition of the Salsa Festival kicked off in Havana, encouraged by the main orchestras of Cuba’s popular dance music.

Cuba organizes new edition of Salsa Festival

Prensa Latina

The main orchestras of Cuba’s popular dance music will encourage the show of the 3rd Edition of Salsa Festival, event which is open to the world and set for February 21-25, its organizers announced.

Dedicate to Brazil 17st International Drum Party in Cuba

Prensa Latina

The 17th International Drum Party Festival Guillermo Barreto in Memoriam, to be carried out in Cuba next March 6-11, and will be dedicated to Brazil, the event director, Giraldo Piloto said.

Cuban Music Institute convenes to XV Guitar Contest

By Mercy Ramos

Cuban Music Institute convened to the XV International Festival and Guitar Contest in Havana which is set for next April 22-29, in this capital.

Idania Valdés: Cuba is a way of being that lives beyond us

By Alain Valdés Sierra / Photos: Gabriel Guerra Bianchini

She asserts that singing was always her passion and the piano was her first love but nevertheless Idania Valdes’s family’s musical tradition was not the cause of her decision to follow this path. It was rather a vocation that shaped her personality from her earliest days on.

Fiesta del Tambor, A truly Cuban festival

By Alain Valdés Sierra / Photos: Gabriel Guerra Bianchini

Cuba’s rich music with its contagious beats has percussion at its heart, and it will once again be celebrated at the 17th annual Concurso y Festival Internacional Fiesta del Tambor “Guillermo Barreto in Memoriam”.