Danzón: Cuba’s national dance
The Havana International Danzón Festival pays tribute to this Cuban musical genre and its main figures in the country’s youngest provinces, Artemisa and Mayabeque, this year June 21 – 25
Author: Ricardo Alonso Venereo | cultura@granma.cujune 13, 2017
Danzón dancers in Cuba. Photo: Ricardo Alonso Venereo
Each new edition of the Havana International Danzón Festival, organized by the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and its Association of Musicians, since 2004, recognizes and pays tribute to the history of this Cuban musical genre and its main figures in the youngest of the country’s provinces: Artemisa and Mayabeque.
As such Danzón Habana 2017, to be held June 21 – 25, in the capital and other nearby provinces, will be dedicated to the towns of San Antonio de los Baños, in Artemisa, and Madruga and Santa Cruz del Norte, in Mayabeque.
Maestro José Loyola Fernández, founder and president of the event, announced that as part of the International Festival outside the capital, these three Cuban towns will see an important series of activities surrounding the figures of the brothers Raimundo and Pablo Valenzuela, of San Antonio de los Baños, and José Urfé and Antonio María Romeu, from Madruga and Santa Cruz del Norte, respectively.