LOS VAN VAN WINS WOMEX ARTIST AWARD 2013

Los Van Van wins at WOMEX
WOMEX is the biggest international World Music Exposition and they have selected Los Van Van for the 2013 Artist Award. Timba.com wants to congratulate all Vananeros, past and present. You have been and continue to be a source of joy and pride to the Cuban people, wherever they reside, as well as an inspiration to musicians around the world. Congratulations!

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miércoles, 19 junio 2013, 04:56 pm

Manolito y Su Trabuco - Sin Freno front cover Front cover of Manolito's new CD "Sin Freno"

Manolito y Su Trabuco are on their way to Europe "Sin Freno". The tour starts next week, June 27th, with a concert at the Croatian Summer Salsa Festival in Rovinj. Click here for the complete list of currently confirmed concert dates. The official release date of "Sin Freno" is still unclear and I don't know if they will have the CD with them. But take some extra cash just in case. Hardcopy CDs are getting to be a rare commodity these days, so you don't want to miss a potential opportunity to buy one! Stay tuned for more tour updates!

Track list:

Title	Singer
La cosita	Ricardo Amaray
Déjala	Ricardo Amaray
Sin freno	Lázaro "Mayami" Díaz
Chiquita	Iván Rodríguez
Vivencias	Ricardo Amaray
La cuenta no da	Ricardo Amaray
No llores más	Iván Rodríguez
Esta noche te quedas conmigo	Ricardo Amaray (bachata)
Farandulero	Ricardo Amaray feat. Los 4
A la medida	Lázaro "Mayami" Díaz
Cuéntale	Ricardo Amaray
Payaso	Lázaro "Mayami" Díaz

Stay tuned for more tour updates!

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sábado, 01 junio 2013, 11:08 am

Adalberto Álvarez y Su Son - Louven, Belgium poster Adalberto Álvarez Tour - click here for concert dates!

It's June and the European Summer tour season is beginning! Los Van Van is already on tour with a performance tonight in Karlsruhe, Germany. Click here to see the rest of the Van Van tour dates. Adalberto Álvarez arrives in Europe on June 5th promoting his excellent new CD "Respeto pa' los mayores". Don't miss your chance to see the new songs live, and bring some extra cash in case they are selling the CD at concerts! Here is the current list of confirmed concerts for Adalberto, but check back in a few days because there are more dates to be added! Maykel Blanco y Salsa Mayor will start their tour with a concert at La Bomba in Padua, Italy on June 12th. Here are Maykel's Tour plans. Manolito y Su Trabuco will arrive at the end of June for a June/July tour. Here are some of the concert dates for El Trabuco. And we have also published the first dates for Azúcar Negra who will be touring in July. More dates to come on the Azúcar Negra Tours page.

Calixto Oviedo is performing tonight in Copenhagen, Denmark with Latin Jazz Syndicate at Jazzhus Montmartre. Later this month he will begin a series of concerts and workshops in Japan becfore returning to the US for a series of summer concerts across the country. His current schedule can be found here. Also in the US, I'm sure no one has missed that Havana D'Primera is on tour as well as Barbaro Fines y su Orquesta Mayimbe. We will update the Mayimbe Tours page at the beginning of next week, so check back then. Tiempo Libre has also updated their tours page so check it out! And more info on the way as more groups confirm their tour dates so stay tuned!

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lunes, 27 mayo 2013, 03:48 pm

The dust is beginning to settle over Havana after the wave of changes sweeping over La Charanga Habanera in its twenty-fifth year: first the departure of Randy Malcom to Gente D'Zona, then the return of "Lachy Fortuna", Lázaro Maya, to La Revé and most recently and, perhaps most surprisingly, the departure of veteran charanguero Aned Mota to work on projects together with his wife, Diva Haila Mompie. But as Paulo FG might say las aguas tomaron su nivel with the return of Yulién Oviedo to the group, at least for the time being. Indeed Yulién himself sang no hay mal que por bien no venga, and the first video I've seen of the new line up shows us a move back to serious timba, the band having recently won at Cubadisco for their second foray into Latin pop called "Charanga Light 2". According to a recent interview with David Calzado on "23 y M", the new CD will be out soon and will get back to some serious timba.

With that I leave you to ponder the world of musical chairs that is Havana's music scene, and with a sample of what is to come and a look at new singers El Dandy and El Guay; now re-named El Chapy Guay it seems. Say what you will about the hair styles but trust me, after the dance routine, you will enjoy what you hear!

La Charanga Habanera - Partienda la tarima (estreno)