Estrellas Cubanas performed the Danzon Amalia Batista by Rodrigo Prats at the Danzon Festival in Havana in 2007 – do contact me if you’re interested in promoting an exchange project between Estrellas Cubanas and Charanga del Norte.
This is my homage to Melquiades Fundora who died on 14 February 2009
I have played alongside him with La Sublime in Havana in 2006 and 2007 and this performance at the Cabaret Nacional in Havana on April 6th 2009 was a tribute to him as one of the founders of Orquesta Sublime in 1955.
Melquiades Fundora [...]
We played an hour’s set before Changui de Gunatanamo and Orquesta Aragón on June 21 2009, booked by the Barbican for the Cuba50 events
At the International Danzón Festival I performed with Charanga Orquestas ‘Estrellas Cubanas’, ‘Orquesta Sublime’ and ‘Charanga de Oro’ and gave a lecture in Spanish at the conference on my research and my band Charanga del Norte (the UK’s only Charanga Orquesta). I was featured on Cuban television and radio as something of a novelty [...]
We played the Civic in Barnsley on 7 November 2009 – here’s some video from the gig:
Charanga del Norte perform at the Civic, Barnsley on Saturday 7 November
Barnsley Civic theatre website
Guillermo Davis, Charanga del Norte’s dancer from Guantanamo will be giving a dance class before the concert on the 7 November and here he is in action at a recent performance with Charanga del Norte at the Lakes Alive Festival in [...]