Live from Havana – A GLOBAL Musical HOMAGE PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE HUMANITY & SOLIDARITY OF THE HEALTH BRIGADES
About this Event
Cultural organizers from the US and Canada have come together with the Instituto Cubano de la Musica (ICM) in Cuba to host a special tribute recognizing the distinct contributions to the world during the Covid-19 pandemic. The concert will salute Cuba’s heroic and outsized contributions to health care around the world as doctors have volunteered this year to serve in more than 26 countries.The two-day cultural event will feature the legendary talent nurtured on Cuban soil and recognized world-wide as virtuoso artists. Musicians located outside of Cuba influenced by numerous Afro-Cuban styles or who are playing in solidarity with the aims of the event are also participating. The roster of talent amassed for this historic event signifies the concert as one of music history’s most memorable gatherings.
Interspersed with the music, tributes by long-time friends of Cuba, other artists, politicians in the US, religious leaders, academics, and activists will join the program to make remarks and offer context to the program.
The program will broadcast LIVE from Havana’s Instituto Cubano de la Musica and from points around the globe while physical distancing is still observed.
The event will take place on SATURDAY JULY 18 AND SUNDAY JULY 19 AT
• 8pm Eastern Standard Time
• 7PM Central Daylight Time/ Chicago
• 5pm Pacific Time
And exclusively broadcast via the Twitch.tv/HotHouseGlobal channel.
The HotHouseGlobal Twitch Channel will also be simulcast on
• HotHouseGlobal on You Tube
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hotho…
• And on the HotHouse web site www.hothouse.net/HotHouseGloba…
Inside Cuba, the live stream will be broadcast across Cuba on national television. Co-presenters around the world will also create Watch parties on Facebook to expand the reach and audience for this legendary event. The archival version will be available on HotHouseGlobal’s You Tube channel after the live stream two-day event is concluded. The program will be presented for free without pay walls and all labor related to the program has been donated.
CONFIRMED PERFORMERS TO DATE (6/28)
Additional artists and speakers are expected to join the final lineup
ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS
ALEXANDER ABREU Y SU TIMBA ALL STARS
ORQUESTA ARAGON
SUSANA BACA
JANE BUNNETT WITH DANAE OLANO
BUSH
PROYECTO SOCIO-CULTURAL EL PATIO DE ADELA Y EL CAVERCHELO.COMB WITH BEN LAPIDUS
JON CLEARY
BARBARA DANE WITH PABLO MENÉNDEZ and MEZCLA
OSAIN DEL MONTE FEATURING BRENDA NAVARRETE
“NACHITO” HERRERA
OSCAR HERNÁNDEZ
LOS VAN VAN
ELIADES OCHOA
ARTURO O’FARRILL
ARUÁN ORTIZ
OZOMATLI
OMARA PORTUONDO CON LA ORQUESTA FAILDE
JOHN SANTOS
EL SEPTETO SANTIAGUERO
SÍNTESIS
OMAR SOSA
ORBERT DAVIS’ CHICAGO JAZZ PHILHARMONIC
TOM MORELLO
DAYRAMIR GONZALEZ
MIGUEL ZENON
SPEAKERS AND PRESENTERS
DAVID SOUL
DANNY GLOVER
RON PERLMAN
MEDEA BENJAMIN
DR. JAMES EARLY
JUDITH LE BLANC
ANTONIO GONZALES
ALICIA JRAPKO
JONTAY DARKO
JUAN DE MARCOS GONZÁLEZ
CONGRESSWOMAN BARBARA LEE
ELLIOT GOULD
ED HARRIS
MICHEAL MOORE
ED ASNER
The Instituto Cubano de la Musica in Havana, Cuba is the Executive Producer of the event. Additional Producers are Marguerite Horberg, founder and Executive Director of HotHouse, Raul Cuza, and Bill Martinez. The lead technical support for the broadcast in the US are Luis Jahn and Vedran Residbegovic.
Source: ARFOPOP WORLDWIDE
