Chucho Valdés and Irakere 50

Name: Chucho Valdés and Irakere 50
Start: 2025-05-10T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 190 Alumni Mall, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Virginia 24061

Schedule

Sat, 10 May, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

190 Alumni Mall, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Virginia 24061 | Blacksburg, VA

World-famous pianist, composer, and arranger Chucho Valdés leads a tribute to 50 years of Irakere, his band that revolutionized Afro-Latin jazz with its bold fusion of Afro-Cuban ritual music, Cuban popular music, jazz, rock, and a splash of classical music.
Valdés, a seven-time Grammy and six-time Latin Grammy winner and recipient of a Latin Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, offers a vivid retrospective of his work with Irakere. Featuring a nine-piece ensemble, Irakere 50 is a new iteration of the legendary ensemble, with brilliant performers hand-picked from the next generation of Cuban musicians.
Category A $85 | Category B $65 | Category C $40
$10 students with ID and youth 18 and under
15%-25% subscription discounts available

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