Latin American and Caribbean musical cultural evening at the Embassy of Cuba in Barbados.

Musicos y diplomaticos latinoamericanos y caribeños

Organized by the Coalition of Pan-Africanist Associations and the Embassy of Cuba and with the presence of Latin American and Barbadian diplomats, a cultural evening was held with guitars and drums in which different songs and rhythms from Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica were performed, as well as classics from the international repertoire. In about three hours, five guitarists and two drummers took the audience through the fields of memory and regional geography, from the new tango to calypso and Cuban song, it was a night of sincere Latin American and Caribbean friendship.

In attendance there were the Ambassador of Barbados for the Caribbean, David Comissiong, the Charges d'Affaires of Argentina and Venezuela and other officials from the embassies of these countries. Unfortunately, the Chargé d'Affaires of Brazil was forced to excuse himself because he had to travel to his country. The Principal Cultural Official of the National Culture Foundation, Andrea Wells, the President of the Caribbean Committee for Peace and Integration and of the friendship associations with Cuba and Venezuela, David Denny, and the Caribbean patriarch "Bobby" Clarke also participated.

The Most Honorable Ambassador Dr. ¨Mighty Gabby¨ Carter, Michael Sealy, William Cummins, William Thorne and Ambassador Sergio Jorge Pastrana participated as guitarists. Onkphra Wells and Ivor Worrell played drums.

The evening was an unforgettable occasion for all the participants and was part of the preparations for the Emancipation Session and the programming of celebrations to commemorate fifty years of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the countries of the English-speaking Caribbean basin.

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