The titular social club was in the Buenavista quarter of Havana, at its peak in the 1940s and early 1950s and once the go-to, prerevolutionary place for hot dance music genres like son Cubano ...

The real-life Buena Vista Social Club was in the Buenavista quarter of Havana, a music club at its peak in the 1940s and early 1950s and once the go-to, pre-Revolutionary place for hot dance ...

I’ve come to Cuba to achieve my 25-year-old dream of discovering the country’s music scene. I was one of the millions who fell in love with Cuban music through the Buena Vista Social Club’s ...

HAVANA — In a rattan chair with a large oval backrest, almost like a throne, the 94-year-old “Diva” of Buena Vista Social Club, Omara Portuondo, sat in her home in Cuba as she reminisced ...

Big Freedia will be the first major international LGBTQ artist to perform at Havana's popular club Cuban Art Factory. ... in 2014 as a forward-looking art gallery and music venue in Havana.

The Social Club was a real place for locals in Havana in the ’50s. Decades later, its music became the source of a Grammy-winning album, then a popular film — and now it’s the most ...

As its title indicates, this production, directed by Saheem Ali, is inspired by the 1997 hit album “Buena Vista Social Club,” on which veterans of the Havana scene performed beloved sons ...