The 17th Drum Festival has began in Havana with a show with the best Cuba’s percussionists. The Mella Theater is the venue for the opening concert, in which drummers Samuel Formell, director of the legendary orchestra Los Van Van; and Rodney Barreto, instrumentalist of the group of maestro Jes\u00fas ‘Chucho’ Vald\u00e9s, have confirmed their participation.<\/p>\n
Percussionist Juan Carlos Rojas ‘El Peje’, and Mexican-American Antonio S\u00e1nchez, among other renowned musicians, are also on the list.<\/p>\n
The event, to be run until March 11, is dedicated to Brazil, a country whose culture has an important influence on percussion as a musical expression.<\/p>\n
The Drum Festival will also take place at the 31 y 2 Cultural Center at the Havana neighborhood of El Vedado, the Mella Theater’s Gardens, and the Tropical Brewery’s Salon Rosado ‘Benny More’, a worldwide famous dance floor in the island, where the major Cuban orchestras of popular dance music will perform on March 10-11.<\/p>\n
The event evokes the memory of musician Guillermo Barreto, considered one of the major percussionists of all time in America.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 17th Drum Festival “Guillermo Barreto in Memoriam” opens in Havana with a show with the best Cuba\u2019s percussionists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,80,74,56,14],"tags":[3901,77907,13537],"class_list":["post-60271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artistry","category-breaking-news","category-culture","category-events","category-world","tag-cuba","tag-drum-festival","tag-havana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}