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• 02 / 23 / 2008

The original Vista Alegre Café (1898 to 1948) was at the corner of Belascoain and Malecon and among its regular clients were famous musicians Sindo Garay, Miguel Matamoros and Arsenio Rodriguez, and ethnologist Fernando Ortiz.

Dominique Roland, head of the Paris project, said that in 2002 the late Cuban troubadour Noel Nicola proposed to guitarist Pancho Amat that they reproduce this ambience of Old Havana.

Amat and his Cabildo, drummer Ricardo "Papin" Abreu (director of Los Papines), Eduardo "Tiburon" Morales, former Son 14 singer, and pianist Emilio Morales, will play Friday and Saturday.

During the concert of Cuban music: pop, son and danzon, three films will be showing on three screens, said Oscar Leon, general manager of the Cuban company Musicalia of Artex.

Executive producer Carmen Mayans said the concert has attracted specialists, the media and the general public to the Enghien-le-Bains Arts Center and said he hoped it will spread through out Europe and may even reach Japan.

Source: Prensa Latina