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Salsa, timba, dance: in "TODO MUSICA", "MB Caribe"
Dance new music, mixed with old: "Discoteca Popular", "Ritmos"
Cuban dance music, other music, event announcements, talk: "Frecuencia Total" (mellow, call-in show), "De Mañana", "Exitazo" (hyper)
The Cuban musical heritage, music and discussion: "En Primer Plano", "Se Dice Cubano", "Cubadisco"
The final of one of the dance shows not long ago on Cuban TV. Check out the dancing ...
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Alter Ego, Canción al Abuelo. You may remember Vionaika on here last year, and maybe you bought her very impressive CD... as I did. If so, you were probably equally impressed with the Santa Clara musicians she brought along, the core of them seem to be group called Alter Ego... here they are !
A few highlights from the Concert for Peace in higher resolution... we just saw this from a TV show, but of course we want more... Los Van Van with their Popurri from the 70's.
Los Angeles de la Habana have taken some time out of the spotlight, now we see the result. They are back with an edge they were missing before, Confiaba en Ti here.
The Guelph Jazz Fest, 2008, this item was found again lately
Pablosky doing Yambu... al estilo George Benson... Various dancers from the entourage who arrived for the party... with Sophie and Juan Carlos representing Casino style.
Probably interesting if you were there ;-) ... redone to see if the MP4 format makes it more fun...
At the Guelph (Ontario) Jazz Fest, the year before last, Jane Bunnett was invited to do bring all the Cuban musicians she could find in Toronto over... here's some of the party at the end of the conga parade...
Probably interesting if you were there ;-) ... redone to see if the MP4 format makes it more fun...
Los Van Van visit Descarga TV show and do the Popurri de los 70's ...
To finally get some higher resolution files here, we are going to the MP4 format, our player requires you to have version 9.0.115 (OR HIGHER) of the Adobe Flash Player.
Most people already have it according to research. If you need it, click here
Our MP4 format is only 40% the size of an AVI file. The AVI filei is 30% the size of the original capture MPG file. It seems to represent the "sweet spot" of compressed video now, where WMV was the best compromise years ago. Bonus: MP4 should be more platform neutral too, given that most people on all platforms already use Flash... which is the foundation of the player.
Charanga Habanera, on their first tour for the US fans for 9 years, will be back in Toronto April 10. Here's a reminder of the party, yes they do dance music ;-)
The social message, well, it's a cultural thing, OK.
Asi Somos is a rueda group who rehearsed up something nice for their few minutes... on Bailar es Algo Más. On the 17th we will start using all MP4 files, the ones displayed with a little "Play" arrow.
Vania, queen of timba in the 90's... now a mother, seen as a singer of bolero and son... finally gives us a reminder of the old days, a good dance song. On the 17th we will start using all MP4 files, the ones displayed with a little "Play" arrow.
