{"id":4713,"date":"2026-01-20T00:38:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/?p=4713"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:38:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:38:38","slug":"nachito-herrera-returns-to-jazz-plaza-international-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/nachito-herrera-returns-to-jazz-plaza-international-festival-20012026\/","title":{"rendered":"Nachito Herrera Returns to Jazz Plaza International Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>41st Jazz Plaza International Festival<\/strong> will kick off with the vibrant show \u201cCuba Vive,\u201d set to take place at various venues across Havana from January 25 to February 1, 2026, and extending to Santiago de Cuba, Santa Clara, and Holgu\u00edn.<\/p>\n<p>This unique concert, which brings together some of the most renowned names in Cuban music, will be hosted by virtuoso pianist and composer Ignacio \u201cNachito\u201d Herrera. The event is scheduled for Sunday, January 25, at 11:00 a.m. in the Sala Covarrubias at the National Theatre of Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Herrera will open the program alongside the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, under the baton of principal conductor Maestro Igor Corcuera. Together, they will perform three works by American composer George Gershwin: <strong>Obertura Cubana<\/strong>, <strong>I Got Rhythm<\/strong>, and, for the first time in Cuba, the <strong>Segunda Rapsodia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The second half of the concert will celebrate the richness of Cuban music, featuring acclaimed vocalist Niurka Reyes, saxophonist and producer Germ\u00e1n Velazco, singer and pianist Bryan Su\u00e1rez Leyva, and the Amadeo Rold\u00e1n Conservatory Jazz Band led by Maestro Jorge Sergio Ram\u00edrez. The performance will also include the National Choir of Cuba and the National Children\u2019s Choir, both under the direction of Maestro Digna Guerra.<\/p>\n<p>Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nachito Herrera will open the program alongside the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, under the baton of principal conductor Maestro Igor Corcuera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1064,97],"ppma_author":[244],"class_list":["post-4713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-cuba","tag-41st-jazz-plaza-international-festival","tag-nachito-herrera"],"authors":[{"term_id":244,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"edelvis-lopez-zaldivar","display_name":"Edelvis L\u00f3pez Zald\u00edvar","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4715,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions\/4715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4713"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}