| Venue: World Stage @ Katies |
| Date & Hour: , Saturday, 3rd May 10pm EARLIER START TIME |
| Price: €12 Tickets will be sold on the door |
Line Up: Evelio Galan (voice); Conor Guilfoyle (bongos & campana); Carlos Talens (guitar); Ariel Hernandez (tres); Paul Williamson (trumpet; Andrew Csibi (double bass); Frailan Moran (congas), and David L'Esprit.
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Havana Son is Ireland's most critically acclaimed and successful Cuban music projects - and a popular hit at Bray Jazz Festival for the past number of years.
The band is a pleasingly diverse snapshot of Irish multi-culturalism at work, Guilfoyle has recruited talented musicians from Cuba, Argentina, Australia, Spain and Italy, and teams up here also for a once-off show with the dazzling French exponent of Latin jazz, David L'Esprit.
Havana Son present a rigorously authentic take on son, the guitar driven acoustic idiom that is the precursor to the modern salsa sound. Popularized so memorably by the global phenomenon that was Bueno Vista Social Club, son is the soundtrack to Cuban daily life, as omnipresent on that Caribbean island as jigs and reels are on this one.
At its melodic core is the double act of the indigenous Cuban guitar known as tres, played here by Ariel Hernandez, and the Spanish guitar of Carlos Talens. Andrew Csibi’s upright bass, Frailan Moran’s congas, and Guilfoyle’s bongos and all important campana, or cowbell, lend the rhythmic vitality that is the heartbeat of the island’s music.
Soaring over the top, the declamatory phrases of Paul Williamson’s trumpet and the powerful, engaging voice of Habanero Evelio Galan, bringing the enduring music of his native city to his adopted homeland here in Dublin.
Havana Son recently released their first album 'In Sin Fronteraz', a project which has energised and honed this exceptional band, and ensures that they remain fun to watch, great to listen to, and even better to dance along with.
“Drummer Conor Guilfoyle’s peerless Havana Son purvey some of the best Cuban music this side of the Atlantic” - Sunday Tribune
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