{"id":2404,"date":"2020-07-19T11:37:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T11:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2020-07-21T11:02:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T11:02:13","slug":"tom-morello-los-van-van-ozomatli-60-more-to-perform-at-concert-for-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/tom-morello-los-van-van-ozomatli-60-more-to-perform-at-concert-for-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Morello, Los Van Van, Ozomatli & 60 More to Perform at Concert for Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The two-day event to honor Cuban doctors will stream July 18-19.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cuban artists including Los Van Van and Alexander Abreu, plus Tom Morello<\/a>, Michael McDonald<\/a> and Ozomatli<\/a> are among 60 acts that will join together for a free two-night concert to honor Cuba\u2019s doctors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Concert for Cuba is a two-night, six-hour streaming festival<\/a> set for this weekend (July 18-19). It will rally to garner a Nobel Prize for the international efforts of Cuban medical professionals during the pandemic and advocate for the end of the U.S. embargo while showcasing performances by Cuban artists and international acts who will lend their support for the event\u2019s messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other artists — including Orquesta Aragon, Mezcla, S\u00edntesis, Dayramir Gonzalez, Omara Portuondo and Orquesta Failde — will perform from the Cuban Music Institute and other locations in Havana. Morello, McDonald, Ozomatli, Dionne Warwick, Arturo O\u00b4Farrill and others will appear via video from different locations. All are performing pro bono. See more information about where to stream the event below.READ MOREShut In Due to Pandemic, Cuba Opens a Window to the World With Music<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event will also include appearances by Danny Glover, Michael Moore and several U.S. politicians, as well as Cuban doctors and U.S. doctors who studied in Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Concert for Cuba is \u201csomething positive in a moment when there\u2019s so much sadness. Accentuating the work of the Cuban medical teams seems like something most people can rally around and support,\u201d says Marguerite Horberg, the founder and director of Chicago Cultural Center HotHouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horberg is producing the concert together with San Francisco attorney and presenter Bill Martinez and Cuban music promoter and manager Raul Cuza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pandemic has illustrated that disease and suffering have no borders,\u201d says Horberg, who has been presenting concerts by Cuban artists since 1986. \u201cHaving culture as a very strong healing force for both repairing diplomatic ruptures and sharing of medical advances is something that we think is very important.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuba\u2019s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade has been working in 22 countries to fight COVID-19. A petition, whose supporters include Glover and Morello, has been circulating to encourage the Nobel committee to award the healthcare workers the 2021 Nobel Prize for Peace<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea for the Concert for Cuba began with a conversation between Horberg and Cuza about streaming concert by El Septeto Santiaguero, one of the bands that he manages, for the HotHouse channel. They soon launched the idea for the online festival.READ MOREX Alfonso\u2019s Butterfly Effect: How One Cuban Doctor Was Inspired to Create a Healing Challenge Amid Coronavirus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve put together an outstanding program and our message is one of peace, human sovereignty, the rejection of walls in favor of bridges and the coming together of cultures and people,\u201d says Cuza, founder of the Cuza Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuza has been working with The Cuban Ministry of Culture and The Cuban Music Institute in Havana, which is the setting for most of the participating Cuban artists\u2019 performances. Both have produced myriad shows since the pandemic shut Cuba down last April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCuban artists have the same goals as all international artists do right now: to maintain their audiences and keep their careers going in an uncertain situation in which we don\u2019t know when we can start to tour again,\u201d Cuza adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Performances for The Concert for Cuba will be pre-recorded, to avoid the possibility of the livestream being blocked by the U.S. government. Most of the international artists participating have an established relationship with Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morello (who will be seen playing his anti-police brutality song \u201cRabbit\u2019s Revenge\u201d on Saturday) performed with Audioslave in Havana in 2005 for an audience of 70,000 people. Canadian saxophonist Jane Bunnett has frequently recorded with Cuban artists. The Congolese salsa singer Ricardo Lemvo (a long-time Los Angeles resident) grew up listening to Congolese rumba and Cuban big bands. McDonald, best known as the singer of some of the Doobie Brothers\u2019 biggest hits, has never been to Cuba, but says his longstanding interest in the country and its culture drew him to the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo many Americans share the bewilderment that this embargo continues all these years after whatever the reasons it was initially put in place for have long past,\u201d McDonald tells Billboard<\/em>. \u201cI feel very privileged to be a part of this.\u201dREAD MOREFive Years After Obama’s Historic D\u00e9tente With Cuba, What Trump’s Prohibitions Have Meant for Music<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

McDonald will perform the Doobies\u2019 classic \u201cTaking it to the Streets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizer Bill Martinez, who has been working with Cuban and other international artists to obtain visas to tour in the U.S. for decades, has downsized his operations in the wake of mass tour cancellations because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration\u2019s reversal of President Obama\u2019s historic changes in U.S. Cuba policy had already discouraged cultural exchange with Cuba. But the Concert for Cuba is offering another way for Cuban musicians to play for the world. He notes that the response by artists in and outside of Cuba wanting to participate has been so great that they may have to organize a second festival with a different line up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are hoping we can return to better days when we had better relations with Cuba,\u201d Martinez says. \u201cAnd if we have to keep repeating the same message, we will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Concert for Cuba will stream at 8 p.m. ET on the HotHouse Global Twitch<\/a> channel, the HotHouse website and Facebook page. The festival will also be broadcast in Cuba, streamed via Pacifica radio stations, and by HotHouse partners Sunfest, Womad Chile and Mexico\u2019s OllinKan festival. Organizers expect the audience \u201cto be in the millions.\u201d   <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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