08 / 31 / 2010
Cuban soprano Johana Simon won the third award of the Grandi Voci International Singing Contest HAVANA, CUBA.- Cuban soprano Johana Simon won the third award of the Grandi Voci International Singing Contest sponsored by the Oper im Berg Festival of Salzburg in Austria.
08 / 30 / 2010
Two years ago, on May 31, 2008, an unprecedented event in the history of rock in Cuba took place. On that day a dozen national metal groups were present at the Salon Rosado de La Tropical to promote the launching of the compilation “Not Salsa, Just Brutal Music,” published by the French label Brutal Beatdown Records.
08 / 06 / 2010
HAVANA, Cuba.- Domingo Aragu, a living legend of the Cuban culture and considered the father of Cuban percussion, celebrates today his 100th birthday surrounded by illustrious local and international musicians.
07 / 26 / 2010
Back by popular demand: Cuba's legendary Septeto Nacional to embark on
second US tour in September 2010 Tour promotes September Album of Sin
Rumba, No hay Son from Harmonia Mundi, World Village Records New York,
NY.
07 / 21 / 2010
July's third Summer Sounds concert will feature the Cuban rhythms of a well-renowned artist who’s a native of the country.
07 / 15 / 2010
Pablo Fernández Gallo (Paulito FG) confirmed that he will start a
national tour on July 15th to raise funds for art education and promote
his new album “Sin Etiqueta”.
07 / 13 / 2010
The pianist Cuban Chucho Valdés offered a great recital at the Sabatini
Gardens in Madrid and took advantage to show his last work Chucho´s
Steps together with the Afrocuban Messengers, the new band of the Cuban
maestro who with his 68 years old managed to receive the applause and
the smile of the public.
07 / 12 / 2010
There isn't greater joy for a writer or artist than seeing his first
work published. That satisfaction lives these days in the
instrumentalist, arranger, and composer Ernesto Blanco, one of the
youngest figures in the Cuban pop music panorama.
07 / 08 / 2010
The Folkloric Music Group of the Traditional Orchestra of Aihua de
Shenzhen made a masterly performance at the Covarrubias hall of
Havana´s National Theater.
07 / 04 / 2010
After honoring the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Chopin,
Cuban pianist Frank Fernández pays tribute to German composer Robert
Schumann, whose 200th birth anniversary is also in 2010 but the
celebration has not been duly remembered.
