Remember 9:30PM, when the concert of the legendary latin-american guitarist Eliades Ochoa takes place at Iulius Park Open Air. The opening act, strating at 8:00PM, will be Funkorporation.
If you watched Buena Vista Social Club, this concert is for you and also for the fans of this kind of music, because Ochoa will perform live songs from the period illustrated in the film, namely the Havanese landscape of the ’90, but also songs from his new albums.
Eliades Ochoa is one of the founders of Buena Vista Social Club, an ensemble of Cuban musicians formed in 1996. Considered by the Guardian “one of the best guitarists of his generation,” Ochoa is an iconic figure in Latin American music. He has been playing guitar since he was 6 years old, and in 1978, due to his musical talent, he was invited to be the leader of the Cuarteto Patria group, founded in 1939.
Ochoa is a skillful instrumentalist who knows how to play guitar and tres, a six-string cordocom of Cuban origin. He is known as the "Cuban Johnny Cash", especially because of his iconic cowboy hat, but his roots are in the rhythms of son, the kind of music and dance that originated in the mountainous areas of eastern Cuba in the late 19th century.
The musician is a native of Santiago del Cuba and is deeply attached to his hometown, inspiring his musical career from local rhythms and culture. Ochoa says: “I wouldn’t give Santiago to any other city in the world. I have never changed my rhythms and music, I am just a country child who still sings today as he learned from his parents.”
The concert will be a true “fiesta” for Latin American music enthusiasts, and not only, with the spectators having the opportunity to sing and dance in the exotic rhythms of the revolutionary guitarist.