The renewed Cuban musician Bobby Carcases, creator of the International Festival Jazz Plaza, stated that the second edition in Santiago de Cuba is a success, three days later of initiated the performances with notable audience welcome.
After the concert in the central theater Marti, together with the American Ted Nash and the Cubans Roberto Fonseca and Carlos Miyares, Carcasés confirmed the booming that experiences the genre with the crucial encouragement of Rodolfo Vaillant, president of the Cuba National Union of Writers and Artists’ provincial committee, and the sculptor Alberto Lescay.
The artist referred to the African roots in that Cuban and Latin side, in which the fusion is provided with Iberian and North American influences just like in other rhythmic formulas which have transcended in the time and the geography as part of the region’s cultures.
In this city, fascinating to him, he experiences pride and honor because of the jazz is be on the raise, together with the trova, the son, the bolero and the choral singing whose origins find handhold in this city landscape surrounded by mountains.
Tomorrow, the outstanding instrumentalist will share the Club Iris Jazz’s stage with the Chilean Ivan Latapiat and the locals Ivan Acosta and De Cuba somos, one of the most representative groups of the genre’s development in this province.
On Sunday the Festival will close with a concert in the Plaza Dolores, in which will participate the Canadians the Shuffle Demons and the Steel Band de El Cobre, and other artists.
The show offered by the Diva of the Buena Vista Social Club, Omara Portuondo, in the theater Martí packed with the audience, in spite of the rain, was one of the most significant moments in these days, during which the Orient Symphonic Orchestra will pay tribute to the symphonic jazz.
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