“Luglio suona bene” (July sounds good), a festival organized by Fondazione Musica per Roma, is one of those important music and cultural events that make a stay in Rome in summer even more attractive. The 7th edition of the festival, that is traditionally hosted in the Auditorium Parco della Musica, will take place between the end of June and the end of July, hosting a number of artists coming from all over the world and playing different music genres. One of the main features of the festival, which always attracts many music lovers in cheap campsites in Rome, is that of giving space to many different music genres, with high quality as a common feature, and to host artists coming from all over the world, in order to provide a wide offer and to meet everybody’s desires. And this year, besides important Italian singers like Francesco de Gregori and Fiorella Mannoia, international popstars like Michael Bolton and Anastacia, and niche bands like Mogwai, just to make few examples, Rome will host also the lively old of the Buena Vista Social Club Orchestra.
The Buena Vista Social Club Orchestra, which got very popular about 10 years ago, although its members are not young or inexpert musicians at all, achieved a great success both in music and cinema. In a decade musically dominated by English music and alluring boybands, the record Buena Vista Social Club and the homonymous documentary directed by great German director Wim Wenders achieved an amazing success, going beyond the best expectations and making the orchestra one of the most famous Cuban bands in the world.
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Buena Vista Social Club was the name of an historic club in Havana, which in the 40s was the meeting place of black people (at that time clubs were divided according to races), who used to dance and play there. At the end of the 50s the club was closed, but after 40 years a group of important Cuban musicians gave birth to the Afro-Cuban All Stars, releasing the album Buena Vista Social Club in 1996 and contributing to the diffusion of the passion for Cuban music all over the world. The orchestra began to perform in various locations: a concert that they held in Amsterdam in 1999 and another performance at the Carnegie Hall in New York became the subject of Wim Wenders’ documentary, and this was only the beginning of a live activity that keeps taking the orchestra all over the world, in spite of the death of some members of the original line-up. The concert in Rome is a great chance to immerse in Cuban music and atmosphere: book now discounted hotels in Rome.
Tickets: 25 – 35 euro
Date: 11th July 2009
Location: Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy
