CubaPLUS Magazine

An intense program of concerts that will embrace the whole country to say goodbye to the 2017 and to receive the new year was announced by the Cuban cultural authorities in a meeting with the press. 

The festivities cover all the musical expressions of the island and they have been organized so that in all the village and cities can be enjoyed the artistic talent, the vice-minister of Culture Abel Acosta highlighted. 

Each territory has its programming, and in a simultaneous way, as already is tradition, December 29 early in the morning will be the moment of the children’s singing and other activities thought for the infants, while the 30 will be the shift of the concert bands in all the squares and parks of the country, he informed. 

In the case of Havana, the main groups and orchestras of dance popular music and other manifestations were called to big concerts in different places of the city; these activities start up the 25 and will run until January 1 in the evening, when will take place the celebration for the 60^th anniversary of the Revolution, Acosta said. 

Key points of the Cuban capital will have an interesting concert program, also those far away from downtown, it is an intention of the authorities to make everybody involved in the public festivities, he emphasized. 

Places like the Piragua and the Yara movie, in the Vedado, the emblematic corner of Prado and Neptuno, the intersection of the streets 13 and 74 in the Playa municipality; as well as the Plaza Roja, in Diez de Octubre, Reparto Eléctrico, and the Parque Herradura, in San Miguel del Padrón, they will be some of the spaces enabled to this aim. 

The fans of the Cuban music will be able to enjoy of Elito Revé and his Charangón, Daimí Arocena, the Orquesta América, Isaac Delgado, Habana de Primera, Adalberto &Aálvarez and his Son, the Niño y la Verdad, Manolito Simonet and his trabuco, Bamboleo, the Papines, and Dan Den, among others orchestras and artists. 

At the same time will have their space the young jazz musicians, the rumba and rock groups, the urban and classical music whose season concludes December 30 with guitarist Joaquín Clerch performance, together with the National Symphonic Orchestra, at The Sala Covarrubias of the National Theater.