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Posted On 19 August, 2010 at 8/19/2010
Luis Medina of KPFA FM's Con Sabor presents an exclusive interview with David Calzado, bandleader of Charanga Habanera regarding their musical journey from Cuba to the world; and of their new US tour including the upcoming live performance in San Francisco.
The program will feature music from Charanga Habanera, along with other great new releases, as well as a Ticket Giveaway to Charanga Habanera, and other performances.
'Con Sabor' broadcasts Saturday 9pm Pacific in the San Francisco Bay and Northern California (12 midnight Eastern). For more information about the upcoming program and others, visit: www.kpfa.org
Con Sabor is produced and hosted by Luis Medina
Live Broadcast: Saturday December 19, 2009 - 9pm Pacific (12 Midnight Eastern) KPFA 94.1 FM - San Francisco Bay & Northern California - KPFB 89.3 FM - Berkeley KFCF 88.1 FM - Fresno
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Posted On 07 August, 2010 at 8/07/2010
Luis Medina returns this week to the KPFA airwaves with Con Sabor, presenting an exclusive interview with Rafael Lay Jr., bandleader of Orquesta Aragon on their new US tour and the upcoming live performance in the San Francisco Bay area at Zellerbach Hall. The program will feature music from Orquesta Aragon, along with tickets to the concert on August 13th.
Luis will also play new music with his report from the Tempo Latino festival in France [link] including interviews with musicians of Spain's La Sucursal S.A, Calambucoo of Columbia, and veteran salsa singer Herman Olivera on the Temp Latino festival and the new salsa dura supergroup,Jimmy Bosch y su Amigos.
'Con Sabor' broadcasts Saturday 9pm Pacific in the San Francisco Bay and Northern California (12 midnight Eastern). For more information about Con Sabor and other programs, visit: www.kpfa.org
Con Sabor is produced and hosted by Luis Medina
Live Broadcast: Saturday - August 7, 2010 9 pm PST - San Francisco Bay Area KPFA 94.1 FM - in Northern California KPFB 89.3 FM - Berkeley KFCF 88.1 FM - Fresno
Con Sabor broadcasts Saturday nights on KPFA-FM, featuring the best in Salsa, Latin Jazz and Afro-Caribbean music hosted by executive producer Luis Medina.
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Posted On 24 July, 2010 at 7/24/2010
This month's Radio Cuba Canta presents our special mix of Afro-Cuban music seasoned with a tribute to Orquesta Aragon; including rare airchecks from Cuba in anticipation of their visit here next month. Also there will be ticket givaways and, in addition, our Community Music Calandar is permenently moved to 9:30 (12:30) starting with this program. Heard on KPFA FM in the SF Bay Area and on the Web at www.kpfa.org.
Produced by Emiliano Echeverria
Live Broadcast: Saturday - July 24, 2010 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
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.
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Posted On 23 July, 2010 at 7/23/2010
This week, Radio Cuba Canta offers a special broadcast during KPFA's summer fund drive, including the music of Peruchín, Orquesta Melodias del 40, Casino de la Playa, Nelo Sosa, and Conjunto Matamoros, as well as Cuban Jazz sounds from Chucho Valdez and Irakere, Tata Guines and Walfredo de los Reyes with Ricardo Abreu of Los Papines.
For your support to the station, also offer tickets to the Bay Area appearance of Orquesta Aragon on Friday, August 13th at Zellerbach Hall (at the U.C. Berkeley Campus). Please call and become a member today, or pledge on-line at www.kpfa.org.
Produced by Emiliano Echeverria
Engineer Clay 'C-Tone' Leander at the controls.
Community Calendar produced by Ron Flores
Live Broadcast: Saturday - July 31, 2010 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
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.
Come enjoy the 70th Anniversary Celebration of Orquesta Aragón, in their first-ever Zellerbach Hall performance. Founded in 1939, and performing continuously to sold-out audiences worldwide, Orquesta Aragón plays authentic Cuban music with a multi-generational appeal and has recorded over 100 albums. Director Rafael Lay, son of an earlier leader of the group, brings to us the group's beautiful orchestration, performance excellence, and music styles – from charanga to cha-cha-chá, son fusions and more. This is a timely celebration of seven decades of Cuban music and culture.
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Posted On 26 June, 2010 at 6/26/2010
Radio Cuba Canta welcomes the summer with a potpurri of some of that great Cuban music “you can’t get enuf of!” We’ll begin with some music for the Orishas then to some Rumba and early Son. We’ll hear some Danzones from the near and distant past plus some 1950s Charanga sounds, and feature a tribute to the life and music of Francisco Aguabella.
We will also be joined by Cuban visa attorney Bill Martinez to discuss the current efforts to bring Cuban musicians to perform in the United States, include a mix of some 60s and 70s Cuban sounds, the Community Music Calendar from Ron Flores, and conclude with some great Timba and Cuban Hip-hop……..
Produced by Emiliano Echeverria
Engineer Clay 'C-Tone' Leander at the controls.
Community Calendar produced by Ron Flores
Live Broadcast: Saturday - June 26, 2010 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
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.
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Posted On 01 June, 2010 at 6/01/2010
LISTEN to previous broadcasts & specials of Radio Cuba Canta with Cuban music historianEmiliano Echeverria from his collection of rare and vintage Cuban music recordings:
Produced and hosted by Emiliano Echeverria
Associate producer & broadcast operator: Clay "C'Ton" Leander
Community Calendar produced by Ron Flores
Live Broadcast: 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
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.
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Posted On 24 April, 2010 at 4/24/2010
She was known as "la gran dama de la música cubana", and "The First Lady of Afro-Cuban Jazz.".
Tonight, Radio Cuba Canta pays tribute to the memory of Graciela Perez.
Producer Emiliano Echeverria will present recordings from his collection of rare and vintage Cuban music featuring Graciela from her first sessions with the Orquesta Anacona with founder Yolanda Castro (who also passed away, on April 4th), through her career with the orchestra of her brother Machito, her continued work with Mario Bauza, and her last sessions with master percussionist, Candido Camero.
Produced by Emiliano Echeverria
Engineer Clay 'C-Tone' Leander at the controls.
Community Calendar produced by Ron Flores
Live Broadcast: Saturday - April 24, 2010 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
KPFA FM live on the web at: www.kpfa.org
Listen NOW: Radio Cuba Canta- Saturday, April 24 2010
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Posted On 27 March, 2010 at 3/27/2010
Women in Cuban Music Mujeres de la Musica Cubana -
International Womens' Month
Maria Teresa Vera
Tonight we present a commemoration of International Women's Month with our second 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
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.
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Posted On 26 December, 2009 at 12/26/2009
TONIGHT: Saturday, December 26th!
Tonight, Radio Cuba Canta presents our 22nd Anniversary Broadcast Tribute to the 'Father of Salsa'", El Ciego Maravilloso", Arsenio Rodriguez!
Broadcast veteran and Cuban music historian Emiliano Echeverria will present gems from his rare and vintage collection of Arsenio's recordings throughout his career from Cuba to the United States.
Produced and hosted by Emiliano Echeverria
Associate producer & broadcast operator: Clay "CTone" Leander
Community Calendar produced by Ron Flores
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Listen: Radio Cuba Canta - Saturday, December 26, 2009
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.
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Posted On 28 November, 2009 at 11/28/2009
Tonight, Radio Cuba Canta presents a tribute commemorating the long-awaited arrival of the great Cuban musical institution, Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro!
Host and Cuban music historian Emiliano Echeverria is joined by Luis Medina of KPFA's Con Sabor to present a special interview with members of Septeto Nacional, discussing the group's history since its formation in 1927, and its original founder, Ignacio Piñero.
Septeto Nacional was finally allowed to enter the United States and bring their classic Cuban son to enthusiastic audiences in New York, Miami and California. Their performances at Yoshi's Jazz Club in San Francisco quickly sold out. Other performances have been added, but are going fast!
The program will also feature a jam session in the KPFA Studios recorded by our own C-Tone with members of el Septeto joined by Bay Area Cuban son-fusion group Pellejo Seco, with special guest Tito Gonzalez.
'Radio Cuba Canta' broadcasts Saturday 9pm Pacific in the San Francisco Bay and Northern California (12 midnight Eastern). For more information about the upcoming program and others, visit: www.RadioCubaCanta.net
Produced and hosted by Emiliano Echeverria
Associate producer & broadcast operator: Clay "C'Tone" Leander
Community Calendar produced by Ron Flores
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Listen: Radio Cuba Canta- Saturday, November 28, 2009
This month's Radio Cuba Canta has a potpurri that we hope you will enjoy. Beginning with some musica guajira with Nico Saquito, then we move to some great Conjuntos like Casino, Kubavana, and some nice surprises. Later we get into a Charanga vein then on to some live airchecks from the 1950s building up to one of the most important descargas ever recorded. Following the Community Music Calender, we conclude the show with some great contemporary Cuban music.
Produced and hosted by Emiliano Echeverria
Associate producer & broadcast operator: Clay "C'Ton" Leander
Community Calendar produced by Ron Flores
Live Broadcast: Saturday October 31, 2009 - 9pm Pacific (12 Midnight Eastern) KPFA 94.1 FM - San Francisco Bay & Northern California - KPFB 89.3 FM - Berkeley KFCF 88.1 FM - Fresno
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.
This week, Radio Cuba Canta broadcasts a special tribute commemorating the 90th Birthday of "El Barbaro del Ritmo", Benny Moré!
Broadcast veteran and Cuban music historian Emiliano Echeverria will present his rare and vintage collection of Benny Moré, from his earliest recordings with the Conjunto Matamoros in 1945 to his final recording made in his home a few weeks before his death in 1963.
We will feature Benny with popular orchestras of the late 40s and early 50s in Mexico and Cuba, including Rafael de Paz, Mariano Mercerón, Conjunto Humberto Cane, Ernesto Duarte, and, of course, Damaso Perez Prado. In addition, we will feature Benny’s Banda Gigante in both studio and live settings, as well as seldom heard recordings from early in Benny Moré’s career.
Produced and hosted by Emiliano Echeverria
Associate producer & broadcast operator: Clay "C'Ton" Leander
Community Calendar produced by Ron Flores
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.
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Posted On 27 June, 2009 at 6/27/2009
Con Sabor guest host Emiliano Echeverria brings the monthly installment of Cuba Canta on KPFA FM. Features a bit of Danzon, seasoned with Conjuntos, a dash of Jazz Bands, sprinkled with Carnaval & Charangas, and cooked with Timba. Community Calendar at 10:30, Station Electorial news following a little bit of Celia.
Highlights include: the original version of the Danzon "La Mora” from 1919 on the last recording made by Pablo Valenzuela, to the Timba of today. Arsenio Rodriguez, Chano Pozo, Miguelito Valdes, Orquesta Melodias del 40 & Orquesta Sencsacion bring the sounds of Afro Cuban music at its finest for you tonight. Also a rare, seldom heard recording of Beny More near the beginning of his career.
Produced by Emiliano Echeverria
Co-host and Broadcast production operator: C'Ton
Community Calendar produced by Ron Flores
Broadcast: June 27, 2009 - 9 pm PST / 12 midnight EST KPFA 94.1 FM - in SF Bay Area & Northern California - KPFB 89.3 FM - Berkeley KFCF 88.1 FM - Fresno
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.
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Posted On 03 June, 2009 at 6/03/2009
Falleció Jesús Alfonso Miró de Los Munequitos de Mantanzas
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(de Jorge González) :
Hermanos todos, lamento informarles de esta sensible pérdida de la cultura cubana.
Jorgito
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"Comunicado:
A las 6 y 45 minutos del día de hoy, 3 de junio de 2009, a los 60 años de edad, falleció en su ciudad natal, Jesús Alfonso Miró, director musical de Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, compositor y percusionista excepcional. Hijo de padres matanceros, único varón de la familia Alfonso Miró y padre de 8 hijos, todos dedicados a la rumba como músicos o bailarines. Dos de ellos han sido parte de esta agrupación y en la actualidad Freddy Jesús Alfonso Borges, dotado también de la destreza de su padre, es el quinto del grupo y ya comienza a seguir también su camino como autor de sentidas rumbas.
Como músico de Los Muñequitos Jesús conoció casi todos los continentes; donde quiera que estuvo sembró amigos, discípulos, brilló en cada escenario, pero nunca olvidó su raíz y vivió toda una vida orgulloso de su estirpe rumbera, saboreando cada esquina de su barrio: la Marina. Desde los siete años hasta la fecha, participó como músico y bailarín en la Comparsa La Imaliana, fundada por su padre y por Félix Vinagera. Por un tiempo fue integrante de la Orquesta de Música Moderna de su ciudad y el grupo de Papa Goza. Desde 1967 es Director Musical y quinto del grupo Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, agrupación a la que amó profundamente y dedicó la mayor parte de su vida.
Como compositor fue imprescindible en el repertorio de esa agrupación, siendo conocidas sus obras en el mundo entero, como autor de Congo Yambumba, la Llave, Chino Guaguao, Lengua de Obbara, Saludo a Nueva York, y muchas otras que ya son clásicos de la rumba cubana. Muchos intérpretes prestigiosos como Eddy Palmieri dan cuenta de la sabrosura y popularidad de sus obras, incluyéndolas en sus discos y mencionándolo como un imprescindible en la música de nuestro continente.
Siendo aún muy pequeño de edad, junto a otro de los grandes de Los Muñequitos: Ricardo Cané, Jesús Alfonso partió a las montañas de Cuba para alfabetizar a los campesinos, graduándose más tarde como joven maestro revolucionario. Por sus grandes aportes a la música y a su pueblo, le fue conferida la condición de Hijo Ilustre de la Ciudad de Matanzas.
Jesús Alfonso, perteneciente a la sociedad matancera Efí Irondó Itá Ibekó, respetuoso portador de la regla de Osha, será recordado por todo su pueblo y muy especialmente por los rumberos de todo el mundo. Su nombre nunca será olvidado, su recia voz indicando cómo tenía que vibrar la música y el sonido de sus manos en el cuero, perdurarán en la memoria de todos los que le conocimos y le reconocemos como uno de los más insignes músicos de todos los tiempos, porque Jesús fue a la rumba como Cuní o Chapottín al son. Jesús le dio a la rumba su vida toda. Su nombre está sin lugar a dudas, junto a Chano, Tata, Papín y todos los grandes de la música cubana. "
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Foto: Los Muñequitos de Matanzas - 1955
Videos de Los Muñequitos de Matanzas
Cántalo pero bailalo "El marino": Yambú
De Cuba a Puerto Rico (De Parte De Jesus y "El Niño"
