NewsWhore
04-03-2009, 03:20 PM
The Third Music, Identity and Culture in the Caribbean Conference (MIC III) will take place 17-19 April 2009 at the Centro Eduardo Leon Jimenes in Santiago. The event is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, the Centro Leon and the Institute of Caribbean Studies (INEC). This year the conference will focus on "Bolero in the Caribbean Culture and its University Projection."
Cuban bolero singers Olga Guillot and Omara Portuondo, legends of Latin American music, are coming for the conference. Also confirmed as attending are Cheo Feliciano, and Danny Rivera from Puerto Rico. Papa Molina, Rhina Ramirez, Francis Santana, Rafael Solano, Nini Caffaro, Luis Kalaff, Lope Balaguer, Camboy Estevez and Fernando Casado from the Dominican Republic will also be taking part.
Experts who will be contributing to the talks include Jose Loyola Fernandez who has written several books on the topic and is president of the International Gold Boleros Festival, held every year in the Cuban capital Havana. Also coming is music expert Maria Teresa Linares.
See http://www.centroleon.org.do/
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Cuban bolero singers Olga Guillot and Omara Portuondo, legends of Latin American music, are coming for the conference. Also confirmed as attending are Cheo Feliciano, and Danny Rivera from Puerto Rico. Papa Molina, Rhina Ramirez, Francis Santana, Rafael Solano, Nini Caffaro, Luis Kalaff, Lope Balaguer, Camboy Estevez and Fernando Casado from the Dominican Republic will also be taking part.
Experts who will be contributing to the talks include Jose Loyola Fernandez who has written several books on the topic and is president of the International Gold Boleros Festival, held every year in the Cuban capital Havana. Also coming is music expert Maria Teresa Linares.
See http://www.centroleon.org.do/
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)