Featured Video - Boogalu Productions

Featured Video

New Years Video 2009-2010
MAYRA CARIDAD VALDÉS
jazz singer - scat singing
Havana, Cuba

"I saw her sing in France and immediately called her the Cuban Ella Fitzgerald," said Bebo Valdés, the legendary pianist, from his home in Sweden, where he was talking about his daughter Mayra Caridad Valdés. "She was just a little girl when I left Cuba. What an incredible voice. I never taught her, but it was Chucho who did".

This video and much more is on the new Cuban music, arts, and culture website - Havana-Cultura.com. We discovered this site recently and was very impressed.

This is a deep and very well produced site that features young artists in Havana who are on the vanguard of contemporary creative expresstion in Cuba. The site has artists doing interviews along with video clips about their work be it music, visual arts, cinema, performings arts, design-architecture, and literature. The Havana-Cultura.com website is a project of Havana Club, the famous company in Cuba that produces rum products.

Boogalu has no affiliation with this website but salutes this work as the first high quality web based multimedia presentation of Cuban culture generated from inside Cuba.
check out Havana-Cultura.com

December Videos 2009
CUBA BAILA
The opening dance scene from a 1961 Cuban film directed by Julio Espinosa. A glimpse at what popular Cuban dance might have looked like in the early 1960's. The song played is a classic danzon called Tres Lindas Cubanas by Antonio María Romeo, adapted as a charanga. The film is an average drama about a Cuban couple and their difficulties putting on a big party to celebrate their daughter's fifteenth birthday.
CARNAVAL HAVANA 1962
Scenes from the documentary film "Primer Carnaval Socialista" by Alberto Roldan. As the film title says, this was the first carnaval after the Cuban Revolution of 1959.

CUBA BAILA

CARNAVAL HAVANA 1962

November Video 2009
LOS MUNEQUITOS DE MATANZAS
rumba guaguancó
Arcata, California USA

Founded over forty years ago, Los Muñequitos de Matanzas are Cuba's most celebrated rumba group. This video is some rare footage of their first tour to the USA in 1992 when they visited Arcata, California for workshops and a performance produced by David Peñalosa and Deborah Ketelsen.

October Video 2009
Salsa Con Timba Dance Party
San Francsico Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area may have the biggest and most active Cuban music and dance community in the USA. On 9/27/09 Anejo Productions threw their 2nd annual Timba-Que dance party under the redwood
trees at "The Old Homestead" in Crockett. Boogalu was there filming

Comments (12) add comment

Wil McZeal de Los Angeles said:

"Smooth Elder Dancer"
This looks like such a fun event! I love the fact that it was outdoors and during the day! Wish I could have attended and wish the LA timba community would throw a similar gig!

October 14, 2009

Dennis RIchards said:

Damn.
You all ALWAYS have it going on down there in the bay area. Someone PLEASE help me get a job down there. HA HA HA I love Seattle but...................

Peace. See you all the next time I'm down there.

October 14, 2009 | url

cawi said:

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tell Camila weaver i said hey!!!! from madison wisconsin.

October 15, 2009

Cathy Serrano said:

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Wow what a Beautiful Party !

October 16, 2009

Veronika from Czech Republic said:

super music
It¨s perfect music.................!!!!!!!!!

November 20, 2009

paul cooper said:

just a person who loves african cuban music for years
the video was just beautiful the dancers were great i have to go to cuba one
day always love cuban for years

November 20, 2009 | url

Guile capablanca said:

That is thte way the cuban gozan (enjoy)
Cuba cuba cuba cuba......salsa is Cuba and Cuba is salsa.What a natural show on the outside,good music and excelent dancers.San Francisco Bay Area is ready to chalenge Miami,New York etc about afrocuban music and dancing(casino)

November 21, 2009

Maria said:

At the Homestead
Que rico! Cubans know how to live life. How can we replicate this in NJ? Casino es lo maximo en musica popular.

November 28, 2009

Mari Smoak said:

Re: CUBA BAILA 1960's
Oh My God!, What a AWESOME TIMES those years were!!... You guys have brought Tears to my Eyes, my lasts Carnavales en El Prado were in the early 60s, I came from Cuba 42 years ago I was just 14 and never been back, seeing these videos have brought back such a WONDERFUL MEMORIES and Nostalgia at the same time.
No! there is NO other place in the World that Carnavales and Cuban Music is danced with such a Flavor and Fervor and Joy like the Cubans of YesterYear's. It's in our Blood and embedded in our Bones, to the Point when I feel sad and down, I prep-up my computer filled with the Old Cuban Music of salsa, Boleros, Danzones y hasta El Organo Oriental I play so laud in my house that my Cuban neighbors go Crazy with my Music they Love iT!..
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
For giving us at least little pieces of our past that Brings So MUCH to our Hearts today in the present!!!
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK and the Findings of our Lost YesterYears!!!
MUAH!!!...MUAH!!!.... THANK YOU!!! :-))

December 09, 2009 | url

Maurice said:

MUSIC IN THE BEGINNING
hi there

looks like a very cool event! such a shame i missed it.

i love the song in the beginning: "se te ve la carita... y mira como se te nota, y mira como me provoca..." any chance there is anyone who can identify the band and name of the song???

thanks
maurice

December 12, 2009

Niobel Cintra said:

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Cubano i live in chico California help me to get out

December 24, 2009

Niobel Cintra said:

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viva cuba como contartar con ustedes This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

December 24, 2009

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