2024-05-06 03:31:48
Text: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
The Bolero Song Festival, with a program in which renowned Cuban musicians participate, is currently taking place online until December 20 and has aroused the interest of numerous Cubans on social networks.
The project was co-produced by the troubadour Inti Santana together with the producers Gabriela Calzada and Celia Zayas and has the support of the Spanish Embassy in Cuba. The concerts have been performed by prominent musicians such as Alain Pérez, Toni Zenet, Haydée Milanés, Carmen París, Marbis Manzaret and Roly Berrio, among others.
To celebrate this initiative, advised by the troubadour Frank Delgado, the researcher Rosa Marquetti, and the journalist and music critic Joaquín Borges Triana, a call was made to which artists from Spain, Cuba, the United States and Panama responded.
The project was preceded by the production of the documentary ¿Qué bolero?, which traces a journey through the history of that genre and its comprehensive influence in Spain. Renowned musicians from Cuba and Spain participated in the documentary, such as Pablo Milanés, Santiago Austerón, Gema Corredera, and Ernán López Nussa.
The Festival’s primary purposes are to highlight the richness of the bolero and promote it among new generations of musicians and music lovers so that they definitively incorporate into their cultural heritage the richness of that manifestation that was launched from Cuba to the world.
“The Online Song-Bolero Festival arises with the objective of paying tribute to this genre, revaluing it and bringing it closer to a young audience, also showing the central place that the Cuban bolero occupies in the collective imagination of Cuba, but also of Spain,” they commented to Cuba News 360 the organizers of the event.
The festival has achieved a significant impact thanks to the concerts of artists with quality work such as Roly Berrio or Haydée Milanés, two figures with recognizable work in Cuban music, especially in the author song scene.
Presentations occur daily during the days of the program at 3:30 pm Cuba time and 9:30 am in Spain. They are one hour long in which the concert, interviews and other digital content are broadcast.