Triabunna Seafest gets a taste of Cuba

Seafest 2015
Saturday, 28 March from 9am – sunset
Triabunna Seafest gets a taste of Cuba

The annual East Coast maritime celebration, Seafest will get a taste of Cuban music and culture with
exciting Cuban band El Son Entero headlining the Seafest musical line-up and hosting a free
workshop for school students.

On their first ever international tour as part of the Tasmanian International Arts Festival, renowned
Cuban band El Son Entero will perform a free concert at 5pm at the Triabunna Marina to get Seafest
visitors up and dancing to their blistering rhythms and infectious grooves.

El Son Entero are renowned within Cuba for their tightly woven rhythms, seductive syncopated beats
and sultry melodies that leave audiences powerless to do anything other than to get up and dance.

The East Coast towns of Triabunna and Swansea boast a surprising and rewarding friendship with
Cuba, after locals have donated Tasmanian tonewood to Cuban luthiers and musical instruments to
Cuban school children since 2011.

Since this first donation in 2011, East Coast and Cuban youths have also exchanged artworks and
East Coast school children have made a recording in Spanish.

To further this unique, long distance friendship, El Son Entero and the Triabunna District Highschool
will also host a CUBAUS Workshop for local school children as part of Seafest, where the band will
introduce a Cuban theme to a classic Australian song the students have chosen and learned. The
band will infuse the song with a Cuban rhythm and then the students (with the band) will perform
the piece as singers, percussionists and instrumentalists. Students will also learn basic Cuban dance
routines as part of the free workshop which runs from 12.30-2.30pm.

Seafest is an annual community gathering that transforms the Triabunna Marina into revelry of all
things maritime and where friends and families congregate to mess about in boats, savour the fruits
de mer and relax. The Tasmanian International Arts Festival is delighted to be a part of its 2015
festivities.

WHO: Band members from one of Cuba’s finest traditional
bands, El Son Entero
WHAT: Seafest 2015 including a free performance and workshop
with Cuban band El Son Entero
WHEN: Saturday, 28 March from 9am – sunset with El Son Entero
performing at 5pm
WHERE: Triabunna Marina, Triabunna
Lucinda Szczypior, Font PR