Havana.- Cuba will be the honorary guest to the 2017 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, one of the most important of its kind in the United States.
The event, also called Jazz Fest, was celebrated for the first time in New Orleans in 1970 and has gathered important figures of that country’s sound panorama and from other countries that share musical roots and traditions with that rhythmic city.
As informed the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ official page, the invitation is part of the increasing cultural interchange between both nations.
In April of 2017, Cuban artists will share with the public the best of their music in musical genres like jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, Cajun, Afro-Caribbean, folk, rock, rap, country and bluegrass with performance in more than 10 places.
Figures like Aretha Franklin, Wynton Marsalis, The Neville Brothers, Harry Connick Jr., Bob Dylan, Lenny Kravitz and Dave Brubeck have performed at the main stage of the New Orleans Jazz.
The event this year in that city gathers artists like Van Morrison, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats.
Source ACN
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