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The Music Fund for Cuba has a very limited number of charity seats available for this special show. The seats are top price seats in the stalls and the charity price of £50 includes an invitation to the invite only post concert charity reception.
These tickets are only available from the Music Fund for Cuba on 020 7263 6452
The concert is already sold out.
Box Office Tel: 020 7638 8891 (9am-8pm daily) Tickets from £15.
www.barbican.org.uk
The Godfather of the Cuban Nueva Trova movement performs with his band. Known for eloquent symbolic and questioning lyrics, his songs are anthems across Latin America. Nueva Trova are protest songs that incorporate Cuban traditional and popular music with jazz, rock and classical music. From the late 60s Silvio led the way, and continues to produce the 'soundtrack of revolution'.
In aid of the Music Fund for Cuba charity.
About Nueva Trova
Nueva Trova (best translated as ‘new song’) is a form of protest music incorporating Cuban traditional and popular genres plus influences from jazz, rock, European classical music, led from the late ‘60s in revolutionary Cuba by Silvio, Pablo Milanés, Noel Nicola, Sara Gonzalez, Pedro Luís Ferrer and with roots in the songs of Carlos Puebla and other traditional trova artists. ‘Trova’ comes from ‘trovador’ (troubadour) the early guitar singer-songwriters who performed popular songs about and for the people. Nueva Trova was part of a pan-Latin American song movement, in which the lyrics reflect an attempt to escape commercial banality and address issues such as political and social injustice.
About the Music Fund for Cuba
The Music Fund for Cuba is a UK charity that works with the National Centre of art and music schools (CNEArt) in Cuba to distribute materials to children and young people for music and performing arts education. It was established in memory of Kirsty MacColl in January 2001 and registered as a charity since 2003. (Reg. No. 1096283). For more info on the Music Fund for Cuba contact info@musicfundforcuba.org.uk or Tel 020 7263 6452. www.musicfundforcuba.org.uk
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