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.
The event suggests to the keens of the rhythm an intense activities program with the concerts as main part, always fixed at 21:00 o'clock, local time, in Havana’s Metropolitan Park, although other performances will have for hosting place to the Guayabera Cultural Center, placed in the area of Alamar, to the east of the city.
For the main scene, in the different dates, the island’s orchestras of greater summoning will performance like Van Van, Habana de Primera, El Niño y la Verdad, Alain Pérez, Adalberto Alvarez y su Son, Pupy y los que Son Son, and Maykel Blanco y su Salsa Mayor.
Also Manolito Simonet y su Trabuco, orchestra that celebrates 25 years of work, informed in a press meeting the event’s artistic director, Efrain Sabas.
Every night will go on stage four orchestras as main festival’s activity, although other activities complete the program like music workshops and visits to places related with the development of this manifestation in Cuba, among them the Abdala record company and the Cultural Center located in the corner of 31 Ave. and 2 St., in the Havanan Vedado.
The program is completed with song lessons, classes of African origin dances, and minnows.
Without doubts the festival is an opportunity to show the work of the Cuban’s orchestras to each time more and more foreigner visitors who attend, told to Latin Press the event’s creator, the musician Maykel Blanco.
It is interesting, he emphasized that they appreciate a meeting of this type in the island, to live the experience of a world class event here.