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751 View St

Main Stage

Pablo Cardenas Presents “Club Havana”

Tickets

  1. 32 Dollars plus.
  2. $

Saturday July 5th / The Coda (751 View St) / doors 9pm / dance class by Christina Morrison 9:05pm / showtime 9:30pm / mini percussion workshop and Latin dance performance at break time / Latin Dj between sets and after band. We're back for a second time at The Coda main stage! With more fun, surprises and the most valuable and famous Cuban music you never expected to listen over here. We can’t wait to show you the new things we're working on to keep the show fresh and exciting. Club Havana is dedicated to the history of popular Cuban music, the island of Celia Cruz, Irakere, Cachao, Arsenio Rodrigues, Miguel Matamoros, Celina Gonzales, Benny More and many other legendary musicians, where you will enjoy the endless universe of rhythms originated from the island of music and perceive that particular and engaging sound that made this music unique and internationally popular. Pablo Cardenas and The West Coast Cuban Orchestra will show you a great variety of rhythms and musical genres originated in Cuba from the roots to the most modern tendencies. Those sounds that represent Cuban music, also represent Latin music in a big portion, like the traditional son, cha cha, salsa, danzon, mambo, conga, rumba, bolero and many others. The main purpose of this event is giving the best Cuban music more exposure. Come ready to experience those classic melodies that so many are familiar with, and others that are very known but have not been promoted enough around here. For different reasons there is a part of Cuban music that has not been spreaded around enough, and that is one of the missions of Club Havana, giving it the exposure it deserves in this area of the world. The incredible Christina Morrison will be offering a dance class and her dance crew “Salsa Caliente” will perform at the break time. Also the amazing percussion instructor Jordan Hanson will host a mini worshop designed for this event's audience. You can bring your own instrument, or we will provide you with one. Come ready to engage with rhythm at a deeper level by creating it yourself while testing your musical capacities. The band will feature an all stars lineup of musicians and special guests, created to give you a fresh and international Cuban sound. This is a lot more than a live music show, it became an experience from beginning to end, a center of cultural values and human connections. We are the result of the support you’ve given us for so many years, contributing to what Club Havana is today, the event of our community.

The West Coast Cuban Orchestra

The West Coast Cuban Orchestra was created in 2011 by the internationally renowned Cuban Pianist and Composer Pablo Cardenas. On a trip to Vancouver Island for a performance he unexpectedly decided to stay for a while and met a few musicians that inspired him to start the band, developing it as one of his main musical projects with the purpose of keeping the Cuban music roots alive in North America while adding the influence of other musical tendencies like jazz fusion and certain African rhythms and sounds. He also wanted an eclectic line up with members from different cultural and musical backgrounds to enrich even more the sound of the project. Although Pablo’s main artistic priority was still his most experimental jazz projects, he has continued to develop this band once he has made Canada his main area of residency in the last few years, and saw that the project kept having a high level of demand performing at the most important festivals and venues of the region.

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