Los Van Van | Music in the Park | San Jose, California

Making their first appearance in San Jose in more than two decades, Los Van Van takes the stage at Plaza de Cesar Chavez on July 24 for a dance party that will get everyone moving.

Los Van Van are one of the most important and influential bands in the history of 20th and 21st century Cuban pop music. By mixing pop, funk, rock, and soul with their native traditions, Los Van Van has become widely recognized as a genre-creating band— one that changed the course of popular music for an entire generation.

“The music that Juan Formell and Los Van Van make is songo, a fusion that happened in 1969 when the trombone-driven son changuistylings of Elio Reve met the French-inspired string-and-flute charanga. With these sounds as its musical texture and the fresh groove of a funkified new beat with strong tinges of North American funk, rock and jazz, Los Van Van opened a dance-charged new chapter in Cuban pop music.” Jesse Chuy Varela, Metro Silicon Valley.

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