Primo Cubano Heats Up The Hall for the 4th!

  • Date: July 1, 2016
  • Time: 08:00 PM
  • Location: The Dance Hall, Kittery

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On Friday, July 1 at 8pm Maine’s premier Cuban band Primo Cubano returns to The Dance Hall in Kittery to kick off the 4th of July weekend. Primo Cubano plays traditional Cuban dance music dating back to the turn of the 20th Century. "Son" is the most popular style to come out of Cuba and is the primary contributor to the blend of Latin styles today known as Salsa. It was first a music of the country people and eventually migrated to Havana, where it was urbanized and began to draw a wider audience. 

Guitarist Paul D'Alessio, a simple-living country man himself, came into contact with this music on a trip to Cuba in 2004 with the Brunswick-Trinidad Sister City Association, a cooperative between Brunswick, Maine and the city of Trinidad, Cuba. He began learning to play Son music on a guitar-like instrument native to Cuba called the ‘tres' and subsequently formed Primo Cubano, "Cuban Cousin".  Trumpeter Marc Chillemi has also spent time in Cuba and has played in various other Latin groups. He also plays percussion and sings on the choruses, or coros, to which the lead singer, or sonero responds with an improvised lyric. 

 

Eric Winter has been singing all his life, began studying Spanish at the age of 12, and became particularly interested in Cuban music over the years. Eric also plays maracas and timbales. 

 

Lenny Hatch has loved the congas since he first heard Mongo Santamaría play Watermelon, and he has been playing them in addition to the bongó and other percussion instruments for over 20 years now. 

Keeping it all together is Duane Edwards on the bass fiddle. He is a graduate of the University of Maine at Augusta and plays in various groups in the area. As a jazz student, he took very quickly to the tumbao bass pattern that makes this music so danceable.

 

Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door and can be purchased at www.thedancehallkittery.org and www.brownpapertickets.com.

 

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The Dance Hall

7 Walker Street
Kittery  ME  03904 

Drika Overton
207/703-2083
moc.liamg@yrettikllahecnadeht
www.thedancehallkittery.org