Pachi Naranjo, Cuban National Music Award 2011

By Amauris Betancourt.

I am far from being an expertise at music though I listen to all sort of music, personal preferences I have, depending on the context. Sometimes I have no choice of course. And I hardly dance -very bad of me!- because I don not only need the help of lights.  

Oh, that`s me beating around the bush. I just only wanted to share my pleasure when I heard Wilfredo “Pachy” Naranjo, the Original de Manzanillo band director, had been presented with the Cuban National Music Award 2011. This group has been long one of my favorite. A thousand congratulations to Pachy!

Carlos Acosta, Cuba's National Dance Award 2011, Performs in Holguín

By Amauris Betancourt.

The Eddy Suñol theater sold out completely: Carlos Acosta's first performance in Holguín. The audience reluctant in the beginning, very excited later clapping hands madly. Acosta won them over easily with his art. The chello player Amparo del Riego and contemporary dancer Laura Ríos kept him company.

 

He was awarded with the Hijo Ilustre and the Angelote distinctions  to aknowledge his work as an outstandig rep of the Cuban culture.

A book by him will come out soon in England: Pata de puerco. He hopes he can publish it in Cuba.  He also announced the shooting of a movie about his life.  

And said, lastly, he wants to widen his repertoire, not necessarily with classic pieces.