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• 09 / 15 / 2008

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An assessment of the development of the dancing popular music in our country and the fostering of couple dancing. Concerts, workshops, theoretical events, exhibits, meetings among groups will be held.

The Festival pays homage to Miguel Matamoros, one of the most representative musician of Son and one of its top cultivators, a genuine Santiago citizen who, with the “ Matamoros Trio¨ greatly contributed to make Son be known inside and outside Cuba.

The beautiful Santiago de Cuba city is the main venue of this event that summons artists of popular and traditional Cuban music and its most famous interpreters.

The Festival - presided over by the Maestro Adalberto Alvarez, a famous Cuban musician and composer- yearly offers a space for an exchange among “soneros” and for the presentations of the best interpreters of this Cuban musical genre.

(Cubarte)