MOVIMIENTO EN MIAMI

** Interested in reporting on Cuban music from Miami? Please email us at reportes [at] timba [dot] com so that we can consider adding you as a reporter.  If you are approved, we can provide you with a press pass you can use for concerts and shows. Press support is also available to clear you for dance congress events and festivals.  We are seeking a writer who lives in the area, understands the music, is dedicated and writes well. **

Welcome to our new section about Miami.  We are seeking a Miami resident to cover the scene there (see above if interested), but in the meantime, I (Bill Tilford) will share some items that we learn from the locals.

26 August 2012:

Movimiento En Miami is on an extended vacation.  We will return in October 2012. 

29 July 2012:

This Week:

Fiesta Para Los Charangueros @ Graham University Center Sunday, July 29
11th Annual Miami Salsa Congress @ Deauville Beach Resort, August 1-5
SPAM Allstars @ Hoy Como Ayer, Thursday, August 2
Albita @ Hoy Como Ayer, Friday, August 3
Timbalive @ Hoy Como Ayer, Saturday, August 4

Congratulations to Timbalive for the release of its new single.  See our Sin Clave blog for details. 

24 July 2012:

This Week:

Palo ! @ Hoy Como Ayer, Thursday, July 26
Conjunto Progreso & Los Herederos @ Pax, Friday, July 27
Timbalive & others @ Deauville Beach Resort, Friday, July 27
Albita @ Hoy Como Ayer, Saturday, July 28
Fiesta Para Los Charangueros @ Graham University Center Sunday, July 29

Here is a fun new video, Crescencio , from Palo!

12 July 2012:  

3 July 2012:

Some key dates this month include:

Palo and Timbalive at Hoy Como Ayer, 6 July 2012
Both bands will be at Hoy Como Ayer for Palo!s 9th Anniversary. 

Fiesta Para Los Charangueros, Graham University Center at FIU, Sunday, 29 July
Doors open at  2pm 
Featured artists include Charanga Tipica Tropical , Charanga Casino and a jam session. 

Miami Salsa Congress, 1-5 August 2012.  For details see www.miamisalsacongress.com

19 June 2012:

This week, there are a lot of great options in Miami, but we especially draw your attention to

In other news, Daniel Martin Subiaut , a Cubano now living in Florida, recently released a new CD, Latin King.   More about this in the future.  And, Steve Roitstein from Palo! tells us that the group will have a new CD out by the end of the year.   (Palo! is going to play this Thursday at Hoy Como Ayer at 8:00pm)

6 June 2012

This week, some of the many options include:
June 6:   Tomasito Cruz y su Banda , Martini Bar at Gulfstream Park, 11pm
June 8:  Luis Bofill at Roho Cuban Cafe 7pm, Pax 11pm; Palo at Club Carribean Night 10pm; SPAM All Stars at The Stage, 10PM,  Timbalive at Casa Panza Cafe, 11:30pm

27 May 2012

We are working on what will eventually become an extensive Calendar of Events for the Miami area.   We have created a new page  for this, and in the coming weeks, we will add a Calendar.  We invite venue owners and bands and promoters that host or play Cuban music to submit their information to Bill (dot) Tilford (at) Timba.com. Information should include venue, date(s), times, name of group.  We do not charge for posting that information,  but we reserve the right not to post items that are not relevant to the music covered by Timba.com or are otherwise inappropriate.

One item of interest this week is Malena Burke's show on Saturday at Hoy Como Ayer....

SPECIAL UPDATE 21 MAY 2012

The winner for this category was David Calzado y su Charanga Habanera, but congratulations to Timbalive for its nomination for Best Current Tropical Dance Album in the Cubadisco 2012 awards. The nomination itself  is quite an accomplishment.   Timbalive will be playing a special concert on May 26:

20 May 2012

We are working on what will eventually become an extensive Calendar of Events for the Miami area.   We have created a new page for this, and in the coming weeks, we will add a Calendar.  We invite venue owners and bands and promoters that host or play Cuban music to submit their information to Bill (dot) Tilford (at) Timba.com. Information should include venue, date(s), times, name of group.  We do not charge for posting that information,  but we reserve the right not to post items that are not relevant to the music covered by Timba.com or are otherwise inappropriate.  

SPECIAL PUBLIC VOTE ON CELIA CRUZ PORTRAIT
See our Sin Clave   blog for complete details.  

13 May 2012

Best of luck to Timbalive  at the Cubadisco 2012 awards, which will take place Saturday, May 19 at the Teatro Karl Marx in Havana.  Their album La Timba pa' To' El Mundo   is one of the nominees for the Música Popular Bailable Actual (Current Popular Dance Music) category.  
Meanwhile, Palo!  Will play at Pax on Friday, 18 May at 10pm, and Albita is performing the same evening at Hoy Como Ayer ,   which also hosts Tropicasa Wednesday nights at 10pm and the Spam All Stars Thursdays at 11pm.  

Also playing:  
Regla Cumba En Concierto "Piedra Fina"   (Musical Director:  Carlos Averhoff) Friday, 18 May at 10:00pm  at Cubaocho
Luis Bofill  at I Love Calle Ocho ,  Friday, 18 May at 10:00pm 
Tony Succar y su band Mixtura   Saturday, 19 May at 11pm at Bongos Cuban Cafe

6 May 2012:

Miami has more excellent musicians than places for them to play,  but we noticed during our recent trip there that La Cueva Azul (aka Cueva Blue),  an intimate club and gallery, is actively booking progressive acts such as Interactivo from the island.   Hoy Como Ayer  is virtually sponsoring an alternative Cuban music movement with regular hirings of groups such as  Palo!,  the   Spam All Stars  and    Tropicasa,  and   Club Ache has been booking larger acts such as T imbalive .  

We saw the Spam All Stars and Francis del Rio in Miami.  The   Francis del Rio   performance was particularly interesting because it showed that increasingly, musicians from the island and the local musicians are playing together routinely in Miami now.  You can see photos here...

(Francis del Rio at Cueva Blue)

Also, congratulations to Timbalive for its nomination in the Cubadisco 2012 awards!