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Veterans and newcomers triumph at 2011 Cubadisco awards

July 17, 2011

Cuban musicians Alexander Abreu (in photo), Diana Fuentes and Yasek Manzano, and the veteran orchestra “Van Van” were awarded at the XIV International Fair Cubadisco 2010 for their latest works. Los Van Van headed by Juan Formell for 40 years won in the category of folk music, in which David Calzado and his Charanga Habanera, [...]

A violin case slung over her shoulder, 10-year-old Daniela Fagundez trudges home along a row of muddy yards where chickens scratch among banana trees and laundry hangs drying on wire fences. She’s an unlikely classical musician, the daughter of a construction worker father who dropped out of high school and a mother who has cleaned [...]

Madrid’s thriving world of art has gotten a new addition with the inauguration of the CaixaForum cultural center, a seven-floor, brick and cast iron complex located in the heart of the city’s ‘art triangle.’ The complex, just minutes from the renowned Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen museums that make up the triangle in the Spanish [...]

Concha Buika, from Majorca, Spain, has begun a tour of the US that will carry her from Miami to New York and Washington, where she will showcase the personal style of flamenco that Spanish critics have called a reinvention of the form. Ms. Buika, an artist of African descent, has previously explained that she took [...]

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