A Havana New Year's Eve Bash with Primo Cubano!

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@ Doors open an hour before showtime. ADVANCE PURCHASE: $30 ( + fees) DAY OF SHOW: $40 (+ fees) All surcharges and member discounts will be calculated at checkout. Click Here to learn how our ticket surcharge supports OLS. Where Primo Cubano goes, people dance. For the better of two decades, they have been bringing the infectious rhythms, rich harmonies, and lively improvisation of Cuban music to the Northeast—playing festivals, clubs, parties, weddings, and other private events. The band was born out of a trip organized by the Brunswick-Trinidad Sister City Association, one of many organizations established to promote goodwill between the United States and Cuba. In 2004, an association trip brought Maine artists down to Cuba to share musical traditions between the two cultures. Singer, guitarist, and fiddler Paul D’Alessio, already well-established in Maine for playing folk music of the U.S., French Canada, and the Maritimes, went along and became inspired to learn the tres cubano—a guitar with three pairs of strings and the national instrument of Cuba. In 2007, he formed Primo Cubano back in his home state of Maine, bringing the palms to the pines. Paul managed to find like-minded musicians who had also been bitten by the bug—who, despite growing up in Maine, were drawn to the music. They have studied, collaborated, and performed with musicians in the local area, such as drummers and noted ethnomusicologists Norm Bergeron and Andrés Espinoza. They have also traveled to study with Cuban musicians such as percussionist Rolando Salgado Palacios (aka El Niño Mentira), singer and dancer Reynaldo González, Jorge Salazar, tresera virtuoso Yarima Blanco, drummer Hugo Cruz, Lesster Castillo, changüisero Antonio Duvergel, and many other veteran Cuban musicians who have become lifelong teachers and friends. While individual members were able to travel to Cuba at various times over the years, the band had the privilege of playing the Jazz Plaza Festival in Havana…

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