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CUBA: Festival De Danzón CUBA: Festival de Danzón People-to-People Travel with Charanga Tropical and Project Por Amor JUNE 27 - JULY 4, 2015 Dear friends and travelers, Visit Cuba during this historic moment as our country begins a new era of friendship with our neighbor after 56 years of isolation. Douglas Little and his band Charanga Tropical invite you on a once-in-a-lifetime people-to-peo- ple music delegation as they perform throughout Havana’s clubs. Meet the people, experience the culture, and hear Havana’s soul moving music. You’ll attend the Festival de Danzón celebrating Cuba’s national dance form. Project Por Amor Director, composer, and expert on Cuban arts, Sage Lewis, will be personally taking us to places no other tour groups get to visit. Our musical journey will step into Cuba’s present and future for an insider’s experience to be remembered forev- er. There is no time better than now to visit this fascinat- ing island on the brink of change. Douglas Little is a flautist, saxophonist, and composer whose distinctive sound blends soulful American jazz and contemporary Cuban rhythms. His credits include international tours, multiple CDs, and major grant awards. He has traveled to Cuba several times, living nearly a year on the island while apprenticing with master musicians. In 2005 he attended the Festival of Danzón in Havana where he first heard charanga ensembles and the danzón style. Inspired, he returned to the United States and formed Charanga Tropical. Featuring an instrumentation of three violins, flute, vocals, and full rhythm section, Charanga Tropical performs a repertoire that ranges from the classic to the modern, fantastic for listening and superb for dancing. In addition to Charanga Tropical Douglas Little leads the Latin jazz group Seven Steps To Havana and the world music trio Tres Mundos. He has performed with Latin Grammy winner Tiempo Libre, pianist Chuchito Valdés, and Nachito Herrera. Charanga Tropi- cal is the first North American ensemble invited to perform at the biannual Festival of Danzón. Itinerary PLEASE NOTE: is schedule is subject to minor changes between now and the trip dates. DAY 1, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2015 9:45 am ~ Meet in Miami International Airport. 12:45 pm ~ Miami to Havana Flight on ABC Charters. 1:45 pm ~ Arrive in Havana and Transfer fromAirport to Hotel Capri When we arrive in Havana we will pass through customs, get our bags, and proceed out of the airport to our hotel. We will be greeted by our Cuban guide and our chauffeur. Our bus will take us to the hotel while we get a brief intro- duction during the drive. 5:00 pm ~ Orientation and Walking Tour of La Rampa and 23 y L. 6:30 pm ~ Dinner at San Cristobal Paladar Located in a cluttered and eclectic bottom floor home of an early 20th century mansion in Centro Habana, The Guardian rates this as the number one paladar in Havana. 8:30 pm ~ Concert at the Festival de Danzón Attend the Danzón Festival and see Charanga Tropical and other Havana bands perform at a neighborhood club where Cubans dance and few foreign- ers ever go. DAY 2, SUNDAY, JUNE 28 8:00 am ~ Breakfast at the Hotel We will eat breakfast at the hotel every morning. The buffet opens as early as 7:00 am daily. 9:00 am ~ Old Havana, Four Plazas Explore the colonial city on foot walking through the four main plazas that comprise Cuba’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site. Begin at Plaza de Armas, the site of the oldest Spanish fortress in the New World, the 1519 locale of the first mass in Cuba, and the palatial Baroque seat of government. Continue on to Plaza de San Francisco de Asis and Plaza de la Catedral. 12:00 pm ~ Lunch at Tres Monedas 1:30 pm ~ The Music of Cuba by Musicologist Olavo Alén Join Charanga Tropical for this in-depth multi-media lecture about how Cuba’s history and musical forms developed into what it is today. Dr. Olavo Alén is the Director at the Center for the Research and Development of Cuban Music and is considered one of the world’s leading scholars on Cuban music. 6:30 pm ~ Dinner at Paladar Los Mercaderes. Have dinner in a beautiful new private restaurant built inside the home on a small street in Old Havana. 8:30 pm ~ Danzón Festival Concert with Charanga Tropical and Others Attend a conert with US ensemble Charanga Tropical performing a set of classical danzón songs inspired by American hits from the mid-20th Century. You will also witness a room full of Cubans dancing their national dance, an important cultural heritage of Cuba. DAY 3, MONDAY, JUNE 29 10:00 am ~ Batá Workshop with Obba Irawo in Centro Habana Join Charanga Tropical for this 90-minute workshop that breaks down the complex drumming, song, and dance patterns that are used in Cuba to communicate directly to Yoruban gods. This family of master Afro-Cuban drummers, under the direction of Octavio Rodriguez Rivera, is considered one of the foremost authorities on Afro-Cuban folkloric music. Octavio began his study of percussion in the 1970’s with master and Omo Aña drummer Papo Angarica. He was a professor at the National Art School and he participated for a long time in carnivals in the comparsas of Andrés Escandon (BAYOYA). 12:00 pm ~ Lunch in Chinatown (on your own) 4:00 pm ~ Discussion on Cuban Economics and Policy at Cuba Libro We will meet with Ricardo Torres, a Cuban macro-economist and professor at the University of Havana to discuss questions about the country and its economic future. This will take place at a new English language bookstore and coffee shop, a small business experiment in the neighborhood of El Vedado. 6:30 pm ~ Dinner with Charanga Tropical at Artist Kadir Lopez’ House Join Charanga Tropical for a dinner party at the home of internationally renowned artist and entrepreneur Kadir Lopez. His expansive studio and exhibit spaces are located in a 1930s Havana mansion that has been repur- posed by the artist and his brother Kelvin for their home workspace. Here you will enjoy a delicious Cuban homemade dinner cooked by the family of the artist. You will have a chance to celebrate with Charanga Tropical and talk to Kadir, Kelvin, and other Cuban artists who will join us. DAY 4, TUESDAY, JUNE 30 10:00 am ~ Private Performance of Folklórico Nacional de Cuba Witness this extraordinary ensemble perform African and Hispanic folkloric music and dances. Members of the Folklórico Nacional de Cuba have performed together for 35 years and have gone on more than 93 international tours. You can’t find a more authentic Afro-Cuban performance then this. 12:00 pm ~ Lunch at El Aljibe 1:30 pm ~ Contemporary Art Galleries After lunch we will visit a number of Havana’s contemporary art galleries and curators. We’ll begin at the collective graphic arts workshop, a public studio for local artists established by Pablo Neruda and Che Guevara at the begin- ning of the Revolution. We’ll meet the manager and the artists and then see an exhibit nearby at the Wilfredo Lam Center which houses contemporary Cuban art exhibits from video art to architecture, design, photography, and painting. Continuing on, we’ll visit a new three-story art exhibiting space called La Factoría. Finally, return to La Plaza Vieja to meet with curator Gretel Medina for a tour of conceptual art at El Centro del Desarollo de Arte Visual followed by a contemporary photography show at Fototeca de Cuba. 5:30 pm ~ Dinner and Evening on Your Own DAY 4, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 10:30 am ~ Visit to the Homes of Afro-Cuban Spiritual Leaders Meet Afro-Cuban religious practitioners in this authentic and once-in-a-lifetime invitation to go inside the homes of a “palero” (Palo del Monte) and a “baba- lawo” (Santería), two mysterious traditions brought to Cuba from Congo and Nigeria, respectively. They will share their altars that are made to communi- cate with the dead, the saints, and a pantheon of African deities. The journey will take place in Cayo Hueso, beginning in Parque Trillo and ending at the Callejón de Hamel. This is an opportunity to discuss pagan beliefs that contin- ue to have great importance in Cuban culture. 12:30 pm ~ Afro-Cuban Lunch Have a traditional meal in the home of artist Salvador Gonzalez in Centro Habana and learn about some of the traditional creole dishes that make Cuban cuisine so rich. 2:00 pm ~ Rumba Demonstration at the Callejón de Hamel Rumba (guaguancó) is a secular Afro-Cuban music, song, and dance tradition that lies at the heart of Cuba rhythm. In this concert workshop, the ensemble Rumba Morena will describe how this music, song, and dance is played. The setting is the Callejón de Hamel, a back alley where, 20 years ago, artist Salvador Gonzalez decided to eschew the traditional art scene and paint on the outside walls of his apartment. After the neighbors started to applaud his artistic effort, he transformed it into a large-scale mural and public art installa- tion inspired by Afro-Cuban spiritual practices where rumba music, dance, and rituals happen every Sunday. 3:30 pm ~ Afternoon and Dinner On Your Own Explore the city, have dinner, and attend the Danzón Festival or other Satur- day night happenings in small groups. 7:00 pm ~ Dinner at Riomar Paladar 8:30 pm ~ Night Activity After dinner we will attend a music or dance performance, to be determined, depending on what is happening in the city that night.
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