Cuban musicians celebrate International Jazz Day
Cuban musicians celebrate International Jazz Day
Havana, Apr 30 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is celebrating today the International Jazz Day with a great virtual concert that brings together musicians from Cuba and other Caribbean nations.
Pianist Roberto Fonseca, artistic director of the initiative, told Prensa Latina that this will be a special recital because it integrates the Caribbean and the quality of the artists.
We will reflect our jazz, he added, from its trends and different generations as of the performance by National Music Prizewinner Bobby Carcasses, Jose Luis Cortes and Cesar Pedroso.
The participation of other outstanding Cuban instrumentalists, such as saxophonists Cesar Lopez and German Velazco, flutist Orlando Valle Maraca, young percussionist Brenda Navarrete and Los Bandidos All Stars Jazz Plaza Festival Band, is also confirmed.
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados The Caribbean Development Bank has awarded US$100,000 in grant funding to seven cultural projects through an initiative to provide emergency relief to the creative industries (CI) sector in the wake of COVID-19.
The funding came under a special Emergency Relief Grant, an output of the bank’s Cultural and Creative Industries Innovation Fund (CIIF) to assist CI entrepreneurs who demonstrated loss of income from music, festival and carnival events that have been cancelled as a result of COVID-19.
CIIF received over 300 applications from 17 of CDB’s 19 Borrowing Member Countries. Lisa Harding, Coordinator, Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSME) Development at CDB noted: