Septeto Santiaguero takes Biarritz again

After twenty years without playing in this Festival, Septeto Santiaguero filled up the ballroom of Gare du Midi, with something like 1500 people which had bought their entrances more than one week before.“It’s amazing coming back to this city, and present our band to a Cuban music lover audience – said Fernando Dewar, the band’s Director – above all we thank Mr. Serge Forth, the President of the Festival Biarritz Amérique Latine to have invited us and all people who made it possible”.

Band founders like Inocencio Heredia “El legendario” specify that the first presentation of Septeto Santiaguero in Europe, in 1996, was here in this Festival. “Coming back right now, when we are going to celebrate 25 years of uninterrupted work, it replenishes us with joy”.

In this film festival, which takes place in France since 1991, Cuba participates this year with the director Luis Alejandro Yero’s documentary short film “Los viejos heraldos”, from his graduation thesis at Cuba’s International School of Cinema and Television (EICTV). This piece was considered as the best cuban documentary in 2018, together with the co-production “La Arrancada” of the brazilian director Aldemar Matias, also graduated at EICTV in 2014, where he shows a havanero family in the middle of an uncertain future for the Cuban youngness.

Septeto Santiaguero is now going to Cuba, where it will follow with its habitual presentation in Santiago de Cuba and with other scheduled concerts in Havana, which will be announced soon. Its followers of Mexico and Latin-American countries could enjoy it on 17th of October at the Centro Cultural Atarazanas, as part of the Veracruz afro-caribbean festival.