This festival is about a lifetime of work and how to best share it.

The Folcloric Afro-Cuban dance and music culture is the bedrock of more or less every if not all modern Cuban music & dance. As the modern pace of life of phones, social media influence, hip hop and Reggaeton grow, less and less Cubans are learning the depth of folkloric dance and we have become a minority in present day circumstances and with this festival we try to address this issue.

Domingo Pau, his friends, family, students and the Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba have all come together to build an event that carefully attempts to make a cultural transplant of everything Afro Folkloric.

We know that when you get that feeling deep inside you at a festival elsewhere a seed is sown and you need to nurture it’s growth. We were aware of the opportunity and circumstances in Cuba that Luanda and her father were capable of delivering and we also believed that these seeds had been sown in many countries around the world.

What we didn’t have was a festival that was made for Afro Cuban Dance Culture – so we started to develop an annual festival with passion and knowledge available to us. Our festival intends to offer a service to anyone interested in learning more and setting a great foundation for teachers, individuals and dance group leaders to help us in the struggle to keep this culture alive. What makes it possible is your participation and the wish to help that seed grow into a great representative of Cuban dance and music culture.