Name: Pablo Cardenas Presents "A Night to Buena Vista Social Club" @ Victoria - May 14, 2022
Start: 2022-05-14T21:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-05-15T13:00:00-04:00
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Pablo Cardenas Presents "A Night to Buena Vista Social Club"

The West Coast Cuban All Stars brings you a tribute to Buena Vista Social Club

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Music Folk / Celtic / Latin / World Dance Latin

Sat. May 14th 2022 + Add to Calendar

Victoria (No Minors)

9:00pm - 1:00pm

$25

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The West Coast Cuban All Stars

Pablo Cardenas

Jazz, Classical, Latin, & Fusion from Victoria BC

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Pablo Cardenas

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Pablo Cardenas assembles a band to bring you a tribute to the legendary Buena Vista Social Club. Even novices to the Cuban scene will be familiar with many of these timeless and evocative songs.
Buena Vista Social Club is an ensemble of Cuban musicians established in 1996. The project was organized by World Circuit executive Nick Gold, produced by American guitarist Ry Cooder and directed by Juan de Marcos González. They named the group after the homonymous members' club in the Buenavista quarter of Havana, a popular music venue in the 1940s. To showcase the popular styles of the time, such as son, bolero and danzón, they recruited a dozen veteran musicians, some of whom had been retired for many years.
The group's eponymous album was recorded in March 1996 and released in September 1997, quickly becoming an international success, which prompted the ensemble to perform with a full line-up in Amsterdam and New York in 1998. German director Wim Wenders captured the performance on film for a documentary—also called Buena Vista Social Club—that included interviews with the musicians conducted in Havana. Wenders' film was released in June 1999 to critical acclaim, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary feature and winning numerous accolades including Best Documentary at the European Film Awards. This was followed up by a second documentary Buena Vista Social Club: Adios in 2017.
The success of both the album and film sparked a revival of interest in traditional Cuban music and Latin American music in general. Some of the Cuban performers later released well-received solo albums and recorded collaborations with stars from different musical genres. The "Buena Vista Social Club" name became an umbrella term to describe these performances and releases, and has been likened to a brand label that encapsulates Cuba's "musical golden age" between the 1930s and 1950s. The new success was fleeting for the most recognizable artists in the ensemble: Compay Segundo, Rubén González, and Ibrahim Ferrer, who died at the ages of ninety-five, eighty-four, and seventy-eight respectively; Compay Segundo and González in 2003, then Ferrer in 2005.

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