Tag: Buena Vista Social Club
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Do not miss: World Circuit provide welcome reissue from Cuban maestro Rubén González
Rubén González Fontanills recorded this LP – Introducing…Rubén González – in two days following the completion of the seminal Buena Vista Social Club album in 1997. The Buena Vista pianist uses the same techniques that gave the group’s album that remarkable sound, as well as selected musicians from the project. When the Cuban pianist recorded…
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Live Review: Buena Vista Social Club
Omara Portuondo beamed with pride as she waved her nation’s flag with Buena Vista Social Club. Adoring fans had thrown it onstage as Cuba’s best-known musical export waved ‘adios’ at Leeds Town Hall. This sublime gig, at the midpoint of their farewell tour in the UK, had come to a rapturous close, with the audience…
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Birmingham Symphony Hall, Buena Vista Social Club, Compay Segundo, Eliades Ochoa, Ibrahim Ferrer, Leeds Town Hall, Lost and Found, Manchester Bridgewater Hall, Manuel “Puntillita” Licea, Omara Portuondo, Orlando “Cachaíto” Lopez, Pío Leyva, Royal Opera House London, Rubén González, Wim Wenders, World Circuit Records -
Buena Vista Social Club tour and new material
Buena Vista Social Club are saying adios. The Cuban band are releasing previously unavailable material from a range of live performances coinciding with an international farewell tour that arrives in the UK on April 4th. The last two survivors of the golden Buena Vista line-up are Omara Portuondo and Eliades Ochoa and this accompanying CD…
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