(Prensa Latina – Cumbancha) Havana.- With his usual serious face, head bowed and eloquent on his guitar, Silvio Rodriguez, considered the leading representative of Cuban…
Silvio Rodriguez Pays Tribute to Frank Fernandez
Category: Concert reviews
Fiddlers 4 in Rare Form
Article contributed by Susan Budig. Photo courtesy of The Rosebud Agency A quilted cornucopia of color and design adorns the stage at F.G. Bulber Auditorium.…
Triskalia
Triskalia, Friday February 27th, 2004 At 9:00pm Bar O’Shea’s 5202 Queen-Mary Rd. Montreal, Que. 514-484-5557 Orcasound reviews show I caught up with Triskalia last night…
Rodin Rodino, Music from the Congo
by Susan Budig The vernacular face of the United States is changing and this concept was very present recently at Macalester College. A new cultural…
Andy Narell & Sakésho in the Big Apple
Noted steelpan player Andy Narell came to town with Sakésho and filled the air with music at New York’s trendy, world-music oriented Satalla (with a…
Ballet Flamenco Eva Yerbabuena
Ballet Flamenco Eva Yerbabuena UW World Series March 5, 2004 Seattle, WA The scratchy sound of guitar and strings echoed from a Victrola while the…
Les Yeux Noirs, Catch ’em if you can
Les Yeux Noirs Seattle performance Century Ballroom February 24, 2004 The French group, Les Yeux Noirs came to my attention during the summer of 2002…
Sampling, Much More than Vocal Tricks
(Prensa Latina – Cumbancha) Madrid, Spain – After half an hour of concert, the peaceful atmosphere of Madrid´s Calle 54 club – the hottest European…
Cuba’s Sexto Sentido Quartet a Hit in Moscow
(Prensa Latina – Cumbancha) Moscow, Russia – Sexto Sentido female vocal quartet and the band accompanying them, brought Cuban musical flavor to the group’s first…
Solidarity Concert at Almendares Amphitheater
(Prensa Latina – Cumbancha) Havana, Cuba – The solidarity concert America-Caribbean, Culture and Social Revolution, sponsored by the Almendares Vivo project, took place at Havana’s…