Sambroso All Stars: The Buena Vista - at Calthorpe Community Garden

When Ry Cooder did his tour of Cuba, bringing in the whole rainbow of Cuban music, I don't think he or any of the other musicians expected the Buena Vista Social Club legacy to be kicking into 2025. An enduring popular record that showcases the wide, wide variety of the islands music, Buena Vista Social Club made waves upon release that still crash to this day. It won a Grammy for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album, and it was only one of two non-English-speaking albums to be on Rolling Stones' rather Anglocentric Best 500 albums of all time list. 

With most of the original musicians having passed away, Sambroso Noda are filling in to provide the jams, them being the beating heart of London's Cuban community. Every time these guys perform the Buena Vista hits, it's an absolute sheller, and it usually costs a lot more than £20 to see the album performed live.

Now playing at the Calthorpe Community Garden, the Sambroso All-stars may well have played at every type of venue in Southern England: field, pub, church, now garden. An “oasis of green in the heart of bustling King’s Cross”, the garden provides an immaculate pastoral backdrop for the All-stars free-moving, high-octane Latin jams. 

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