Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Eddie Manzaneres will play alongside local Jerry Yokel in a performance called Cafe Blanco this Saturday. Yokel is well-known in the area for his part in the Frog Hollow Band.
WAITSBURG -- Long before the popularity of the Buena Vista Social Club, Eddie Manzanares was in Cuba soaking up its music.
Born in 1963 in Vera Cruz on the Mexican Gulf Coast, Manzanares would join other youths from his community on cultural exchanges to the Caribbean Islands. His group would show off Mexican dances and songs, while bringing home the Son Montuno, a uniquely Cuban musical genre that blends the Spanish guitar and lyrical traditions with the spice of Afro-Cuban percussion and rhythms.
"That's in my roots," the guitarist said about the contagiously danceable songs he will bring to...
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