Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Santiago de Cuba, January 18.- The pianist and composer Nachito Herrera reported that he will pay tribute to Cuban music with the concert “Cuba Vive”, which will inaugurate the Santiago chapter of the Jazz Plaza International Festival on the 21st.
In a press conference, held this Wednesday in the Sierra Maestra room of the Meliá Santiago Hotel, the Cuban musician living in the United States pointed out that in the first part of the concert at the Heredia Theater in this city, he will perform classic works by Ernesto Lecuona, in addition to Frédéric Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninov, Cuban style.
In the second part of the show, Herrera detailed, he will pay tribute to greats of Cuban music, particularly from the East of the country such as Rodulfo Vaillant, Elio Revé, Enrique Bonne, Chepín Chovén, Frank Fernández, and will perform a duet with Wilfredo “Pachy” Naranjo, director of the Original Orchestra of Manzanillo.
It was also known that he will share the stage with the Sextet Santiaguero, the Orfeón Santiago Choir, a Jazz Band made up of local musicians, the Conga Paso Franco, the saxophonist Germán Velasco, the trumpeter Yasek Manzano, and the Americans Karen Briggs and Yohannes Tona.
Composer Rodolfo Vaillant, president of the Jazz Plaza Organizing Committee in Santiago de Cuba, explained to the press that Nachito Herrera, in addition to starring in the inaugural concert and participating in the theoretical event “Mariano Mercerón Inmemoriam”, will make a donation of instruments to the system of local artistic education.
It will also donate medical supplies to the Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Clinical Surgical Hospital.
The 39th edition of Jazz Plaza will reach nine venues in Santiago with 76 presentations; The Mariano Mercerón Inmemoriam colloquium stands out, which will be held at the Meliá Santiago Hotel on the 22nd and 23rd.
This event will be dedicated to the 85th birthday of Rodulfo Vaillant, the 80th of Eduardo “Tiburón” Morales and the 45th of the founding of Son 14, and the 60th anniversary of the Original Orchestra of Manzanillo and the artistic life of Pachy Naranjo, its director. (Text and photo: PL)
