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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

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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

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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

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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

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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”.

Parallel universes from the Jazz Plaza 2018

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Kono y Los chicos de Cuba was one of the participant groups in the 33th edition of the international Festival Jazz Plaza which close in this Caribbean country. In exclusive interview to Latin Press, Haruhiko Kono, director of that grouping made up by five artists, commented about his experience and the significance that he confers to this meeting celebrated every year in the biggest island of the Antilles.