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March 2011 Tribute to Women in Cuban Music

Posted by Radio Cuba Canta | | Posted On 26 March, 2011 at 3/26/2011

Radio Cuba Canta presents:
Tributo a Las Mujeres de la Musica Cubana -
March 2011

Paulina Alvarez

Tonight, we present our 3rd annual program commemorating Womens' Month with a generous helping of the stars of yesterday and today of Cuba. From Maria Teresa Vera & Paulina Alvarez, to Haila Mompie, Tania Pantoja, and Yeni Valdes, we cover all eras and many genres of Cuban music from 1918 to today.

That's TONIGHT! 9 PM PDT (West Coast: SF Bay Area, LA, Seattle; 12 Midnight, EDT: NYC, Miami, and Havana Cuba

LIVE ON-THE-AIR on KPFA-FM 94.1 Berkeley in the SF Bay Area
or worldwide at kpfa.org

Produced by Emiliano Echeverria
Associate producer & broadcast operations: Clay "C-Tone" Leander
Community Calendar produced by Ron Flores

Live Broadcast: Saturday - March 26, 2011
9 pm PST - San Francisco Bay Area
12 midnight EST - NY/Miami/San Juan PR/ y la Habana, Cuba
KPFA 94.1 FM - in Northern California
KPFB 89.3 FM - Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM - Fresno

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Radio Cuba Canta broadcasts monthly on KPFA-FM during Con Sabor, a weekly program featuring the best in Salsa, Latin Jazz and Afro-Caribbean music hosted by executive producer Luis Medina.

VISAS APPROVED! Los Muñequitos de Matanzas
One Night Only! Mon. April 4, 2011 - 7 pm
Mission High Auditorium - San Francisco

Posted by Radio Cuba Canta | | Posted On at 3/26/2011


San Francisco International Arts Festival presents
direct from Cuba
Special Pre-Festival Performance
Los Muñequitos de Matanzas
Tambor de Fuego

First San Francisco Show in 19 Years
ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Monday April 4, 7:00pm

VISAS APPROVED!

After weeks of waiting all 17 members of Los Muñequitos de Matanzas were finally given security clearance by the U.S. State Department to travel to the United States next month. Let's welcome them to San Francisco on April 4th!


Mission High School Auditorium
3750 18th Street
San Francisco, CA, 94114
Tickets: $20 - $50*
General Admission
*$50 (includes Post Show Rumba Party)
Tix also available @ Julio’s Record Store, 2884 Mission Street, SF (btwn 24th and 25th)

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Listen to an interview with Diosdado Ramos, director of Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, on KPFA's Ritmo de las Americas with host Rosi Reyes 

San Francisco International Arts Festival is proud to present the legendary Cuban ensemble,Los Muñequitos de Matanzas. The performance will mark the company’s return to San Francisco after an absence of 19 years. The last time Los Muñequitos performed in the City was a now legendary night back in 1992.

Hailed as the "reigning regents of rumba" by the San Francisco Chronicle, "the essence of Cuba's musical soul" by the San Diego Union Tribune and "truly keepers of a sacred flame" by Latin Beat, Los Muñequitos de Matanzas are amongst the highest regarded percussionists in the world and masters of Afro-Cuban ritual and rumba music and dance. Founded in 1952, the group currently spans three generations of an extended family of musicians, singers and dancers. This performance is part of a 16-city US Tour and San Francisco will be their second stop and only California performance.
The music of Los Muñequitos de Matanzas keeps alive 500 years of drumming, chanting and dance, preserving the vibrant culture of the African Diaspora intrinsic to Cuba's living legacy. While sustaining these cultural traditions, the group's choreography and new musical compositions continue to innovate from the African roots of Cuban culture.  In one evening'sconcert, Los Muñequitos may play the rhythms and drumming of the Santeria religion whichoriginated with the Yoruba tribe; the songs of the Abakuá, a secret fraternal organization originally from Nigeria; and contemporary Cuban rumba in its varied and ever evolving forms.

Los Muñequitos has performed in more than 50 cities across the U.S., from intimate (and packed!) shows in community centers and dance & music clubs to full-scale theatrical productions in grand concert halls. Whatever the setting, their complex drumming, captivating vocals and spectacular dancing transport audiences to the vital streets of Matanzas and the soul of Cuba.

The concert is being produced by the  SF International Arts Festival and is a community benefit for a number of organizations including the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), Cuba Caribe, Abada Capoiera, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Latino Leadership Comité. There will be a Post Rumba Party after the show at the Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St, San Francisco. Tix sold separately or included with $50 orchestra seats.

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Archive of Recent Broadcasts

Posted by Radio Cuba Canta | | Posted On 10 March, 2011 at 3/10/2011


LISTEN to previous broadcasts & specials of Radio Cuba Canta with Cuban music historian
Emiliano Echeverria from his collection of rare and vintage Cuban music recordings:


 
Radio Cuba Canta - February 8, 2011
Emiliano offers a potpurri of Danzones recorded from 1916 to 1959; and an interview about Bay Area Danzón group, Orquesta La Moderna Tradición.

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Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, January 29, 2011
Radio Cuba Canta begins 2011 with recordings that Emiliano brought back from Cuba on his recent trip.

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Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, December 25, 2010
Annual Broadcast Tribute and Interview with Arsenio Rodriguez.

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Radio Cuba Canta- Saturday, December 25, 2010




Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, November 27, 2010
Featuring the music of Bellisario Lopez, Arcano y su Maravillas con los hermanos Orestes y Israel Lopez Cachao, Septeto Los Naranjos, Pachito Alonso y su Kirikiri, Irakere, y mucho mas.

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Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, November 27, 2010




Radio Cuba Canta - November 5 & 6, 2010
Bocas RadioActivas: Interview with Paul Flores and DJ Leydis about Hip Hop and Spoken Word in Cuba and Latin America. Featuring LOS RAKAS (Panama/Oakland), BOCAFLOJA (Mexico D.F.), DOBLE FILO (Cuba), and Brandon Santiago (San Francisco).

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November 5 & 6, 2010




Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, October 30, 2010
Tribute to sonero Abelardo Barroso and Cuban Hip Hop featuring Doble Filo.

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Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, October 30, 2010




Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, October 9, 2010
Featuring some the great conjuntos from Arsenio Rodriguez to La Sonora Matancera, Nelo Sosa, Humberto Cane & more.

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Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, October 9, 2010




Radio Cuba Canta - September 2010
Tribute to great Cuban bassist and composer, Israel Lopez Cachao

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Radio Cuba Canta- September 2010




Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, July 24, 2010
Broadcast Tribute to Orquesta Aragon

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Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, July 24, 2010




Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, March 28, 2009
Mujeres de la musica cubana / Women of Cuban Music

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Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, March 28, 2009




Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, June 26, 2010
Memorial Tribute to Francisco Aguabella

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Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, June 26, 2010




Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, April 24, 2010
Broadcast Tribute to Graciela Perez: 1915-2010

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Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, April 24, 2010




Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, May 30, 2009
Tribute to Ricardo Abreu - aka Papin of Los Papines

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Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, May 30, 2009





Produced and hosted by Emiliano Echeverria
Associate producer & broadcast operator: Clay "C'Ton" Leander
Community Calendar produced by Ron Flores


Radio Cuba Canta broadcasts LIVE on last Saturday each month:
  9 pm PST - San Francisco Bay Area
12 midnight EST - NY/Miami/San Juan PR/ y la Habana, Cuba
KPFA 94.1 FM - in Northern California
KPFB 89.3 FM - Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM - Fresno

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Women in Cuban Music
Radio Cuba Canta - KPFA FM

Posted by Radio Cuba Canta | | Posted On 08 March, 2011 at 3/08/2011

Women in Cuban Music
Mujeres de la Musica Cubana -
International Women's Day

Maria Teresa Vera

Radio Cuba Canta presents a commemoration of  International Women's Day with our annual program dedicated to presenting some of the women who have contributed to the music of Cuba. We will hear early singers such as Maria Teresa Vera, Sexteto Anacaona, Paulina Alvarez, Rita Montaner, Celeste Mendoza and Las Hermanas Marquez, as well as contemporary singers like Vannia Borges, Yeny Valdes, Halia Mompie and Myra Caridad Valdes.

Produced by Emiliano Echeverria
Community Calendar produced by Ron Flores
Engineer "C-Tone" Leandro at the controls.

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Listen:  Radio Cuba Canta- Saturday, March 27, 2010


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Original Broadcast:  Saturday, March 27, 2010
KPFA 94.1 FM - in Northern California
KPFB 89.3 FM - Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM - Fresno

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Tonite: 01 March 2011 -
Cuba Canta con Emiliano Echeverria - KPFA FM

Posted by Radio Cuba Canta | | Posted On 01 March, 2011 at 3/01/2011


Tonight: Cuba Canta helps KPFA-FM raise funds in a special broadcast
featuring Great Cuban Music, great premiums and surprises.

Tonight on Radio Cuba Canta, 8 PM Pacific West Coast Time, 11 PM East Coast Time

on KPFA-FM 94.1, Berkeley (SF Bay Area.) or Worldwide at kpfa.org.

Heard on KPFA FM in the SF Bay Area and on the Web at www.kpfa.org.


Produced and hosted by Emiliano Echeverria
Associate producer & broadcast operator: Clay "C-Tone" Leander
In association with Musical Colors producers Avoctja, Raquel Aguirre, Eddie Pay and Luis Medina


Live Broadcast: Tuesday - March 1, 2011
9 pm PST - San Francisco Bay Area
12 midnight EST - NY/Miami/San Juan PR/ y la Habana, Cuba
KPFA 94.1 FM - in Northern California
KPFB 89.3 FM - Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM - Fresno

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Radio Cuba Canta- Tuesday - March 1, 2011



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