Sounds from Tierra Colorada: Chango Spasiuk returns to Cuba

After his participation in the 38th International Jazz Plaza Festival in Havana, Chango Spasiuk returns to Cuba in search of another remarkable experience.

According to the Cuban Institute of Music, Chango will reunite with a musical and refined audience, bringing the sounds of Tierra Colorada and all about chamamé and the accordion, the main instrument of this musical genre from his home in Misiones, Argentina.

He will perform two concerts with Cuban guest musicians, as well as giving master classes at various art schools and recording sessions at the legendary Abdala Studios.

On 4 September, he will give a masterclass at the Matanzas School of Art, followed by the first concert in the evening at the city’s White Hall.

Between the 6th and 11th of September, he will be recording at the Egrem Studios. On 11 September he will give another masterclass at the National School of Music, as part of the start of the school year in the Cuban capital.

His second concert will take place on 12 September at 19:00 in the Cuban Art Theatre of the National Museum of Fine Arts.

The aim of this project is to further strengthen cultural ties between Cuba and Argentina, creating opportunities to share, expand and enrich our cultures.

The accordionist and composer Chango Spasiuk, born in Misiones, has managed for more than 30 years to integrate academic, folkloric, regional, universal, popular and refined music, without allowing any one label to diminish the others.

In 2005 he was awarded the Platinum Konex Prize as the male folk soloist of the decade, and in 2015 he received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Misiones, Argentina, for his cultural contributions.

Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez