Young Music Festival
If you are more contemporary and enjoy music of all colors, sleeping will be a utopia for you in Las Tunas during the days that the Festival of Young Music is celebrated, where the event “Entre Música” takes place, organized by the Asociación Hermanos Saìz . Every year, it brings together musicians from different corners of the country and different trends. Festival that goes from a chamber orchestra concert, to an afternoon of trova with rap or to a night that goes from rock to electronic music. More information:
Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS)
Address: Lorenzo Ortiz No.65, Las Tunas.Phone:(53) 31371353
Barbarito Diez Popular Music Festival
The Prince of Danzon, people called the possessor of an unusually beautiful voice, Barbarito Diez, a faithful exponent of the musical genre Danzón and in Las Tunas every December musicians and artists perpetuate his work as one of the leading figures of Cuban culture. Promoting danzón as a distinctive genre of national culture is the main objective of this event. You can enjoy galas with renowned Cuban musicians, dances with orchestras and organ as well as the theoretical-practical dance workshop of danzón and cha-cha. If you want to know the details, contact here:
Email:
relinter@tunet.cult.cu
Popular Musicians from Las Tunas
Emiliano Salvador
Musician and composer from Las Tunas who bequeathed to Latin jazz a vast work with a very personal style. Considered a pianist of pianists, he composed various pieces of genres of Cuban popular music, such as contradanza, dance, danzón, cha-cha, son, guaguancó, bolero, mambo and salsa, always fused with elements of jazz and even rock. He has become a legend not only among Cubans, but in the world of Afro-Caribbean music.
Barbarito Diez Junco
With hardly any academic musical training or playing any instrument, but with an unmatched voice and musical interpretations, Barbarito Diez became the Golden Voice of the Danzon. His voice immortalized great musical pages not only in Cuba but in various countries of the world. In his career of more than 58 years, he recorded a large number of full-length albums that contained treasures of the Cuban musical repertoire. Today that repertoire constitutes a legend inscribed in good music without limits of borders.
