Cuba’s biggest,  the most popular orchestra of Santiago de Cuba returns direct from Cuba to United Kingdom  following 2009′s storming shows at carnaval de Cuba in London. Their return will coincide with the release last year of their critically acclaimed new album ‘Horizonte próximo’.

“Horizonte próximo” shows the everyday Santiago, its people dancing and singing to it. I believe that Sur Caribe tries to revitalize the music-dance memory, the folklore of our people and their historical roots. It finds to release this intrinsic feeling, rooted in Santiago with the “conga” and its contagious rhythm. Finally, the lifeblood of the people which now walks the streets of Santiago de Cuba.

Sur Caribe will be performing LIVE at Glastonbury festival  on 23th and 24th June for the second time in their career, Bournemouth at Key West Club in Bournemouth Pier to celebrate Salsa Explosion 18th Years Anniversary Extravaganza (25th June) and will be  the house musicians at the Cubana restaurant in London.

Sur Caribe is a Santiago de Cuba-born group, approaching popular danceable music, which received this name because of the geographic situation of this beautiful city, located at the south of the island and soaked by warm waters of the Caribbean Sea. The orchestra and Ricardo Leyva, its current director, joined their destinies in 1987.

This union blew up on the strength of its popularity, earning it, in a sudden, the acknowledgement as the most popular orchestra of this city keeping this condition until our days.

The orchestra is composed by graduated youngsters from the Arts Schools of the country, who, boasting a high technical and rigorously-professional condition, tackle every genre from our Cuban popular music, as well as Latin and Caribbean rhythms; a remarkable feature of this orchestra is the powerful and different sonority, together with the undoubted literary value in the lyrics of its compositions.