Sentences with phrase «cuban music»

Not a typical wine and cheese - type launch, Blair's event will offer Cuban music, food and art.

Though Puerto Rican artist Rafael Ferrer was primarily involved with Afro - Cuban music as a drummer growing up between Puerto Rico and New York, he became known in the late 1960s for conceptual and processed based installations.

Since then, his work — artistic and literary — has revolved around Cuban music and its relationship to santería.

The 12 - piece ensemble says it is the only band in the United States that plays this type of Cuban music, with a repertoire that ranges from ballads to the latest salsa and timba grooves.

In a video accompanying the show, he describes how New York in the»50s was rich with poetry, jazz and Afro - Cuban music.

Performance: Tiempo Libre at the Met The Cuban - born, Miami - based band Tiempo Libre will totally freak you with their blend of R & B, pop, jazz, and Cuban music.

Four of the highlights of Prospect.3 are the electrifying film, The Living Need Light, And the Dead Need Music by The Propeller Group (Phunam and Tuan Andrew Nguyen from Saigon, Matt Lucero from Los Angeles) with New Yorker Christopher Myers at the UNO St Claude Art Gallery; Silent Parade... or The Soul Rebel's Band vs Robert E Lee, a video by Peruvian - born William Cordova in which a local band serenades — or challenges — a statue of Robert E Lee from a rooftop shown at Dillard University; the exuberant, immersive two - channel video at the CACNO by David Zink Yi, another Peruvian artist, that explores Afro - Cuban music and culture, remixing the visual and the aural; and Kwaku Ananse (2013), a film by Akosua Adoma Owusu, an American of Ghanian descent, presented with the compelling simplicity of a fable in which a young woman returns home to attend her father's funeral, then goes into the wild in search of existential meaning.

Zink Yi has been studying Cuban music for many years.

For this installation, David Zink Yi, who has been studying Cuban music for many years, invited 11 Cuban musicians to perform at Kunstverein Braunschweig in Germany.

Since his years at Staunton, where Mr. Ferrer learned to play drums, he has been involved in the Afro - Cuban Music world.

The most established bars can be found near the church in Plaza Mayor where you can grab refreshing cocktails as you listen to jazz, soul and cuban music to really get into the Spanish spirit.

Cuban music is very rich and is the most commonly known expression of Cuban culture.

Getting away without going away, guests can tap into the captivating time capsule of this colorful culture with Cuban music, a vintage car show, cigar rollers, rum tastings, palm trees swaying and fireworks lighting up the night.

He said he will soon release new Afro - Cuban music with a symphony orchestra.

The company said it is utilizing «extensive social media» targeting doc fans as well as fans of Cuban music and fans of the original film as Buena Vista Social Club: Adios gets ready for its theatrical run.

Art galleries, bars playing live afro - cuban music, cigar shops, colorful murals, men playing dominoes and the ever - present aroma of Cuban coffee are all scenes of the daily life in Little Havana.

It's evident in Cuban music, the Cuban economy and the Cuban - born religion of Santeria.

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And it sounds a bit like Cuban dance music, a tango, there's a high note there, too.

The aroma that fills your kitchen while cooking this Cuban rice dish will make you want to pump up the salsa music and grab a mojito!

Mark Cuban took a moment away from his team's playoff game to play to the camera... we MIGHT have added the music...

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Meanwhile, music documentary «Beware of Mr. Baker» and William Friedkin «s «Killer Joe» (which opens in July) were both highlights of SXSW, while Cuban drama «Una Noche» and Keanu Reeves «filmmaking documentary «Side By Side» were leading lights at Tribeca and Berlin.

May 11, 2018 • The opening night of this historic gathering of Cuban art and culture was an emotional overview of the island's music as well as a celebration in which art trumped politics.

Actor - director Andy Garcia's ambitious attempt to re-create the music, the rhythms and the magic of Havana in the days leading up to the Cuban Revolution is hampered by an uninvolving story that can't support the film's epic length.

May 13, 2018 • Mavericks frontman Raul Malo reflects on his first encounter with the Cuban band Sweet Lizzy Project and what drew him to its music.

October 7, 2014 • Joined by special guests Pedrito Martinez (percussion) and Chucho Valdés (piano), the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra premieres new music by Wynton Marsalis inspired by Afro - Cuban religious practice.

- Featuring songs, images and information to enthuse students about Cuban culture and music.

«El matrimonio dudoso» is set to upbeat professionally recorded Cuban charanga music for very lively and pleasant listening (and learning!).

For female puppies: Blanca (for a white Havanese), Bolo (cake, a version of sweetie), Chacha (Cuban dance music), Chica (a pretty girl), Dolce (sweetie), Coco (coconut), Pedra (precious stone), Salsa (Latin music), Santa (saint), Rica (rich), Rumba (Cuban dance music), and Tia (auntie).

You'll soon get into the swing of it all especially on Calle Ocho (Southwest Eighth Street) on the main drag when all your senses become alert to the myriad Cuban experiences; the stucco houses, the street art, the sounds Samba music that escape from music stores and restaurants, rum is easy to come by, fruit markets energise the air with citrus aromas and food around these parts is pretty rustic and includes a repertoire of chicken, rice and platanos — fried sweet bananas.

There was a Cuban son band playing that night, and old and young couples were swaying to the music on the street.

The tango rose from a mix of Cuban and Spanish rhythms, some polka, and according to some, also a bit of African music.

It's a vibrant city with colorful nightlife featuring Cuban / latin live music all over the city and a compelling restaurant culture.

Populated early on by Spanish, Italian and Cuban immigrants, the area retains its own unique style with exceptional music venues, shops and restaurants.

Among the items available for purchase in San Pedro are art, jewelry, wines and liquors, photography, clothing, edibles, furniture and wood or bamboo products, beauty treatments, food of so many kinds, music, ceramics, paintings, travel guides, coins, Cuban cigars and other tobacco products, and oh so much more...

Locals and visitors alike can dance all night to the rhythms of Cuban «son» music at a number of nighttime hot spots.

Organising live music for dinner, an authentic Cuban bbq at his home and an un-planned visit to Vinales were just some of the highlights in a trip that was my favourite yet!

On the Empress of the Seas, Royal Caribbean has incorporated Cuban culture throughout with Cuban menu items served at the Café Royal, salsa music and dancing in Boleros Latin lounge, and on - board activities inspired by the island.

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With its panoramic waterfront seaside terrace, colonial style indoor dining, four private rooms serving local and international flavor, award winning Wine list, Cuban Cigar collection and live music, it is a must for romantic dinners, fine dining, spectacular weddings and business events.

The island seems to have been frozen in time, the manifestations of which are captured in its colonial architecture and ubiquitous presence of the Cuban cigar, salsa music, the old American Buicks, fine rum and the legend of Hemingway.

Treyarch's Noah Heller has said in the past that they're «happy that we put the war to bed» when talking about the company's World at War effort, and with the chatter about searches into Vietnam War, Cuban, African, and Soviet Union music for their next title, it seems safe to speculate that Treyarch too is moving on.

Concert: David Virelles at Jazz Standard On Gnosis, the full - length album on ECM Records from Cuban - born pianist David Virelles in collaboration with the drummer Román Díaz and the Nosotros Ensemble, traditional Afro - Cuban rhythms are cut with more dissonant musical gestures informed by contemporary improv and classical music.

A two - week long Cuban - themed pop up is about to take residency in Soho, organised by the classic Cuban rum creators, Havana Club, which will explore the highlights of Cuban culture through the three godly pillars of food, music and colour.

«An important feature in the Cubans» understanding of music is the special articulation of the sense of time by the rhythmic pattern Clave, which makes a kind of dialectic possible.

Influenced by dance music from Cuba and Puerto Rico, salsa incorporates Afro - Cuban rhythms and American echoes of the Hustle.

Orquesta La Moderna Tradición specializes in Cuban danzón - charanga - the music of 1950s Havana social clubs.

Somewhere in the music there's the ghost of rumba and Cuban rhythm, as well as an African beat all its own, the dancers shaking and twisting to a dance known as ndombolo, the «dance of the parrot», which is based partly on the gait of the assassinated Congolese president Laurent - Désiré Kabila, and partly on the walk of Vieux Marcel, a gorilla in Kinshasa zoo.

For those unfamiliar with the Cuban - born artist who rose to prominence in the 1980s as a founding member of the avant - garde Volumen I collective, Birdland, 2001 — a large nest made of old coats cradling several ostrich eggs and a swanlike saxophone — introduced two of Brey's hallmarks: a strong association between nature and music (specifically Afro - Cuban

His early influences in music paved the way for later experimentations in visual art, as well as an early friendship with Cuban artist Wifredo Lam.