Juan De Marcos Gonzalez

Slow to start, but a fine fiesta finish

Festival Main Stage, Halifax, Canada

Cuban big bands provide some of the most sophisticated music on the planet

Stockholm, Sweden

I was very fortunate to see live in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s all of the old, some now gone, master musicians and singers which made up the now retired Cuban ensemble Buena Vista Social Club (BVSC)! The first time was at the old Conga Room location on Wilshire Blvd. near La Brea Blvd., later at UCLA, T