Celebrate the 26th of July With:
¡Tito y su son de Cuba!
Saturday July 26, 2008
$12 gen. $10 (students/seniors) - 9:30pm
Celebrate the 26th of July, a day commemorated in Cuba as the beginning of the start of the Cuban Revolution that led to the overthrow of the dictatorship of Batista. With that historic date in mind, lets dance to the music of ¡Tito y su son de Cuba! playing authentic Cuban dance rhythms rumba, guaracha and son montuno.
"Tito" plays a Cuban instrument similar to the guitar, called the "Tres". He studied with Tres master Papi Oviedo of the Buena Vista Social Club and then with the greatest guitarist in Cuba, Octavio Sanchez Cotán. He has played with such famous Cuban groups as Conjunto Estrellas de Chocolate, Aribu Quartet and Chapotin y sus estrellas, all from Havana, Cuba. Before leaving Havana, "Tito" founded and played with the Nuevo Conjunto de Arsenio Rodriguez, a group carefully structured to represent the music of the famous Cuban tresero Arsenio Rodriguez. This group was assembled by Arsenio's daughter, Regia Rodriguez Travieso. She thought long and hard as to who should represent and play her father's music. She chose Heriberto "Tito" Gonzalez, a great honor.
