When: March 28, 2009 - 8:00 pm
Where: Town Hall
123 West 43rd St, Manhattan-Midtown
Price: $60 $50 $35  
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The Afro-Cuban All Stars spans 4 generations of musicians ranging from the age of 81 to 13: Rubén González, Eliades Ochoa, Ibrahim Ferrer, Manuel “Guajiro” Mirabal Vázquez, Omara Portuondo, Orlando López Vergara aka “Cachaito”, Bárbaro Alberto Torres Delgado aka “Barbarito Torres”, Manuel Licea aka “Puntillita”, Raúl Planas, Félix Valoy, Richard Egües, José Antonio “Maceo” Rodriguez, Pio Leyva, and the young Julienne Oviedo Sánchez.

The son music’s African roots are discussed in an interesting note from Radio Havana’s Eugene Godfried.