Cuban pianist and jazz musician, Ernán López-Nussa, won the Grand Prix at the 18th International Cubadisco Fair, Cuba’s top recording industry festival, for his album Sacrilegio, produced by the record label Colibrí.... More
The book Arroyo Blanco: Churchill’s Cuban route by International Relations expert and researcher, Lourdes María Méndez, was launched at the Fayad Jamis book store, dealing with an almost unknown event in Cuban history, involving the future British leader... More
The 30th anniversary of Havana’s Fine Arts Biennial is being celebrated this year in May under the slogan “a living lab”. ... More
Musicians, students and professors from the US University of Richmond, Virginia, and the State University of Pennsylvania will perform at the opening of the 31st Concierto Santiago Festival along with their Cuban colleagues and partners from the eastern city’s Esteban Salas Music School.... More
The Romerías de Mayo Cultural Festival is underway in the eastern city of Holguín, focusing on young art on the island. ... More
Cubans are packing several Havana movie theaters as the 12th French Film Festival got underway in the Cuban capital to pay tribute to filmmaker Francois Truffaut.... More
Thousands of Cubans paid tribute to deceased Cuban musician Juan Formell in concerts all across the island over the weekend. The main concert was held at Havana’s Anti-imperialist Tribune, where popular orchestras, bands, singers and performers in general joined Cubans to pay homage to Formell, the director of the legendary band Los Van Van, whose former members also participated. Versions of famous compositions by Formell were performed by Cuban musicians, such as renowned pianist Frank Fernández, the children’s theater company La Colmenita, and salsa bands, to the tune of which people who attended the concerts danced. Juan Formell passed away unexpectedly on Thursday at the age of 71. In 1969 Formell set up Los Van Van, later baptized as “the train of Cuban music”, directed the group until he died and recorded 30 albums, one of which Llegó Van Van (Van Van is here), took home a Granmy Award in 1999. Experts consider Los Van Van as the Los Beatles of Cuban music, and Formell, as the leader of a revolution in popular Cuban dancing music when he Thousands of Cubans paid tribute to deceased Cuban musician Juan Formell in concerts all across the island over the weekend.created “”songo”, a genre whose basis is Cuban “son”. ... More
Renowned Cuban musician, Juan Formell, who founded and directed the legendary band Los Van Van for more than four decades, passed away in Havana on Thursday.... More
The National Dance Award for 2014 was presented to Folk Dance Ensemble dancer and teacher, Silvina Fabars, in recognition of the work of her entire artistic life.... More
An exhibition titled Posters on the Stage is currently on display at the Casa de las Américas headquarters, as part of celebrations marking the anniversary of the Havana based cultural institution. ... More
Mexican ballet student, Paulina Guraieb, won the Grand Prix, and Cuba’s Rafael Quenedit won the Artistry Award at the 12th International Ballet Students Competition which wound up in Havana over the weekend.... More
The 36th International New Latin American Film Festival will be dedicated to one of its precursors, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.... More
The 12th International Competition for young ballet students is set to start in the Cuban capital on Tuesday, April 22nd, as part of the 20th International Ballet Academies Encounter gathering in Havana with more than 650 participants from all over the world. ... More
The National Dance Award for 2014 has been conferred upon National Folk Dance Ensemble dancer and teacher, Silvina Fabars, in recognition of the work of her entire artistic life.... More
Mexico City, April 17, (AP), -- Nobel-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died at the age of 87, a source close to the family has confirmed.... More
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