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Havana, Jan 3 (Prensa Latina) The opening concert of the International Jazz Plaza Festival, on Jan. 21, will be dedicated to the 50 years of artistic life of maestro Joaquín Betancourt, according to the event's Facebook page.
There comes a point in life where you realise you don’t have that much time left, so you have to make the most of every moment and put some good back into the world, says musician Dan Chiorboli. He’s explaining why the album he’s just released with an eclectic bunch of fellow artists features a surprising and unusual range of songs. Indeed, Radio Ubuntu by The Solidarity Express features lyrics about climate change, migration, overpopulation, the unsustainable use of resources, xenophobia and the quest for racial harmony. In a country where hashtags like #PutSouthAfricansFirst spread h...
Michel Herrera · Nueva Era 5 In a country like Cuba â where music education programmes have tended to be designed for the 19 th century, European-style conservatoire has reigned supreme â the focus would naturally tend towards orchestral instruments such as the piano, violin, cello and others. Despite the fact that traditions have always been vibrantly alive and that ancestral storytelling, music and dance forms have thrived and have been syncretized into both spiritual and secular music, even young Cubans seem to graduate towards either European, concert-style instruments, or tr...