Tag: Compay Segundo
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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