Top musicians to close the Jazz Plaza Festival in Cuba

The 40th International Jazz Plaza Festival closes today with top-class musicians and performers in several venues in Havana.

Tonight at the Yara cinema, a tribute will be paid to the Cuban Tres (a countryside kind of guitar with three strings), with the presence of an exceptional player of the instrument: Pancho Amat, who was honoured at the 20th International Jazz Colloquium “Leonardo Acosta in Memoriam” on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

Manolito Simonet and his Trabuco, Celso and his Changüí de Yateras, Yarima Blanco, Isaac Mena, Juan Antonio de la Cruz Antomarchi (Cotó), Kay Lions, Maikel Elizarde, Abel Acosta and Rodrigo Sosa, among others, will be performing.

Meanwhile, the Karl Marx Theatre will host the Cuba Vive Gala (Cuba Lives Gala), with the participation of artists of the stature of Ignacio ‘Nachito’ Herrera, Bobby Carcassés, Germán Velazco, Beatriz Márquez, Vania Borges and Niurka Reyes (Cuba), as well as other national and international artists.

Last but not least, the Sala Avellaneda of the Teatro Nacional has booked the show from the Buena Vista Social Club “Herencia” (Inheritance), by virtuoso Cuban pianist and artistic director of the event, Roberto Fonseca.

For several days, the provinces of Havana, Villa Clara and Santiago de Cuba experienced the joy that accompanies the festival every year, a stage par excellence for the most important cultivators of the genre in Cuba and the world.

Meanwhile, the Cuban Art Factory in Havana opened its doors to the 20th International Jazz Colloquium “Leonardo Acosta in Memoriam”, with album presentations, master classes, tributes and exchanges of experience.

Around 400 foreign musicians and many Cubans are taking part in the event.

Dedicated this year to the 65th anniversary of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry, National Music Prize award Frank Fernández and the Los Van Van and Irakere orchestras, the festival is a source of creation and harmonious brotherhood.