In less than one month’s time MANANA will show 500 lucky ticket holders a whole new way of organising and enjoying music festivals. Just about everything promises to be different from the live events that have come before it, because, during the first weekend of May in Santiago de Cuba, the local...
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After sixteen years of music-making – involving over a thousand live performances and various combinations of more than forty musicians – the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club will be waving adios to London at The O2 on Wednesday 6th April, the final night of a farewell tour that has taken...
Boogaloo (or, more aptly bugalú) is the sound of Puerto Rican and Cuban migration in the U.S. It characterised and described the impact and feelings of Caribbean migrants in New York from the late 1950s till early ‘70s. For this reason, more than a musical mix between the traditional caribeño...
Tonight, the Jazz Café audience are here to get down and check out Eliane Correa’s latest creation Eliane Correa & El Aire Project for their highly anticipated album launch. It was also rumoured that this could be the last night of the Jazz Café before another great London venue is closed...
No matter that time is limited, the rain is pouring down or that backstage hustle and bustle is off the scale. When you have the chance to interview the most up-and-coming act of the year – and one of the most charming and stylish- you just have to seize the...
They’re little more than twenty years old, released just one album and their career debuted only two years ago… But they’ve already turned the music world upside-down! Lisa-Kainde and Naomi Diaz, better known as Ibeyi, will soon turn Koko, London and the U.K.upside-down too with their forthcoming tour, which will see...
