Festival Varadero/Willie Colon

      Festival Varadero/Willie Colon

      1st Varadero Festival: 4 of the best bands of Cuba dismiss Willie Colón
      Essen on August 4 and 5
      An event, unique in the World, by ECHOLATINO,

      Four of the biggest bands of Cuba: Manolito y su Trabuco, Elio Revé y su Charangon, Adalberto Alvarez y su Son and Eddy-K , will give to the “Malo del Bronx” a Cuban style farewell in his artistic retirement, after 40 years of professional trajectory. Willie Colón, considered as the Architect of the Urban Salsa, will be the guest of honor with his group " Legal Alien " in the 1st Varadero Festival, an Echolatino presentation. His achievements in all his activities are widely recognized. As a musician, composer, singer and trombonist, as well as also a producer and a music director, Colón has created 40 productions that have sold more than 30 million discs on a global scale. As the director of his group " Legal Alien ", he has been nominated 11 times for the American Grammy, he received The Excellency Award of Grammy Latino, he has fifteen Golden discs and five of Platinum, and he has collaborated with big names as Rubén Blades, David Byrne, Héctor LaVoe, and Celia Cruz.
      On this first edition, the Grugahalle of Essen, with 10,000 people capacity, will become a cuban bazaar where it will be possible to taste and live within the flavors and scents of our far away caribean island. Willie Colón, who always says that “Latin America is only one house” and four of the greatest cuban orquestras covering a great part of cuban musical tendencies ( Son, Salsa, Guaracha, Cuban Reggaetton) will keep our senses awake, without any boredom. It is done by keeping in mind that live music as well as dancing are part of latinamericans` day by day. It is how we will give a Cuban style farewell to the “Maestro” Willie Colón.

      Competence of Dance "Salsa Casino"
      Essen, 5 of August

      It is why our Festival, dedicates an important part of its program to a competence of dance, August 5th, since 3 o`clock pm, in the extensively luxurious room of presentations of Le Palais (the Palace of the latin american Music in Europe). This competence will be marked by covering only the gender of "Salsa Casino". People who wants to participate should do its inscriptions until July 20 in the following E-MAIL adress " tanzwettbewerb@echolatino.net ". The winners will be known in an endless number of Latin-American cultural presses and for those who achieve the first place, they will be published in the front of our magazine Echolatino.

      The prizes for the three first places are:

      1st Place: 2000€ + a Trophy + a trip to Cuba and a box of “Varadero” Rum.
      2nd Place: 1000€ + a Trophy + a trip to Majorca and a box of “Varadero” Rum.
      3rd Place: 500€ + Trophy and one box of “Varadero” Rum.
      Francisco Montás
      Pressereferent Echolatino
      info@echolatino.net
      www.echolatino.net