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4th of July weekend at World Cafe Live!  |
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Blending many genres and different styles of Cuban music, Juan de Marcos & The Afro-Cuban All Stars (featuring members of The Buena Vista Social Club) will play World Cafe Live.
Juan de Marcos González is one of the most important figures in Cuban music today. On a mission to present the world with diverse Cuban music, he is doing just that with Afro-Cuban All Stars.
Juan de Marco’s work with the Afro-Cuban All Stars, the Buena Vista Social Club, Rubén González, Ibrahim Ferrer, Sierra Maestra and others has made an extraordinary contribution to raising the profile of Cuban music throughout the world.
González and Nick Gold planned to record two albums in Havanas EGREM studios in 1997: the debut from the All Stars and a collaboration between West African and Eastern Cuban musicians for which Gold had invited Ry Cooder as producer. Due to passport complications the African musicians were unable to travel to the recording. However, the two week recording trip yielded an extraordinary trio of albums: The debut albums from the AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS A Toda Cuba le Gusta and RUBEN GONZALEZ Introducing and the BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB.
The impact of these albums internationally would also affect the music industry in Cuba; not only did it resurrect the career of several forgotten legends, but left the record buying public worldwide with an appetite for Cuban music, and a receptiveness to new recordings that previously didn’t exist. As for the Afro-Cuban All Stars, they evolved from being a musical dream, to a one-off recording, to the formation of a full-time touring and recording group.
For more information and tickets visit: http://tickets.worldcafelive.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=3576&c=60&pg=
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