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03 / Jun / 2016

TWO UNIQUE DATES IN SPAIN

Two great voices joined to celebarte music! Omara Portuondo and Diego el Cigala will be performing live in Spain next July. Three unique shows that will visits Diego's homecountry. The first will be in July 8th at the Teatro Circo Price in Madrid, the second at Portaferrada Festival in Sant Feliu de Guixols em July 16,  at Cartagena's Festival La Mar de Música in July 19th and last [...]  

01 / Jun / 2016

85 TOUR FULL CALENDAR

What is the best way to celebrate Omara’s 85th anniversary and 70 years of performing professionally?  A musical party with Diego el Cigala throughout Europe’s greatest concert halls. A great European tour that is about to start and that will visit the main summer festivals and venues in Belgium, Germany, Spain, Poland, Hungary, UK, France, Portugal and Italy. Click here and the the nearest show in yout hometown.

30 / May / 2016

OMARA VISITS RUSIA

Omara Portuondo will participate in a special evening to celebrate the best of Cuban songs and genres. Jazz masters Daniel Cramer and the two divas; Omara Portuondo and Armine Sargsyan will perform next July 1st at the MMDM in Moscow. Learn more here.

27 / May / 2016

NEW SONG WITH PEDRO AZNAR

Argentinean singer and composer Pedro Aznar released a new album titled "Contraluz". An album with 13 songs that counts with the very special guest: Omara Portuondo. Cuban singer performs the song "Última Pieza" alongo with Aznar. You can watch now the video and share the song with your friends via Spotify.

21 / May / 2016

A CUBAN FAREWELL

Journalist Laura Putti from the Italian newspapper La Repubblica reported orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® Cuban Farewell at Karl Marx Theatre. A special night that counted with the special guest Amadito Valdés. Learn more here.

19 / May / 2016

A HAVANA FAREWELL

“The revolution is invincible,” say the painted walls along the streets of Havana, as if they could banish doubt through the act of insisting, in red block letters.

But what really is invincible in Cuba is Omara Portuondo, the 85-year-old diva of the Buena Vista Social Club, in a red dress, vamping and shimmying on a stage, showing a roaring audience that fading and dying are of no [...]  

16 / May / 2016

HISTORIC CUBA SHOW

Saturday's concert was many things: a joyous victory lap; a mournful group eulogy; an act of historical preservation (a new documentary on the group is set for release next year); a nostalgia trip of traditional Cuban styles like son, mambo, guajira and bolero. But above all, it was a showcase and testament to the virtuosic skill of the current original players: laud player Barbarito Torres, guitarist Eliades Ochoa, trumpeter Manuel [...]  

10 / May / 2016

ADIOS CUBA

Cuba has the best calling card a country can dream of: its most genuine and traditional music has been carried to every corner of the planet in the hands of the legendary and top class artists who form the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club®. Now these exceptional musical ambassadors will return to their homeland to celebrate the grand finale of the farewell “ADIÓS TOUR” which started off in 2014. The [...]