Rialto Opens Season with Orquesta Buean Vista Social Club

September 9,2013

Georgia State University’s Rialto Center for the Arts begins its 2013-14 season with the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club featuring Omara Portuondo, Eliades Ochoa, Guajiro Mirabal, and Barbarito Torres, Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 8 PM. Legendary vocalist, Omara Portuondo, leads this thirteen-member ensemble through a sultry, sizzling set of Cuban Jazz. For one night, Atlanta’s Rialto becomes Havana’s hottest members-only ticket, as the Buena Vista Social Club comes alive through the passion and effortless cool of its Orquesta’s veteran players.

Tickets start at $75 and are available at the Rialto Center’s box office, (404) 413-9TIX (9849) or www.rialtocenter.org.  Pre-show events start at 7 PM in the Rialto Lobby.  Group and Georgia State University student discounts are offered for this show. The Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University is located at 80 Forsyth Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia.  Free Parking available for all Rialto Series events. 

Orchesta Buena Vista Social Club
A recording inspired by a members club in 1940’s Cuba led to an unexpected revival of international interest in traditional Cuban music. Nearly 50 years after the original club was closed, Cuban musician Juan de Marcos González along with American guitarist Ry Cooder and several other traditional Cuban musicians, some of whom were veterans at the original club during the height of its popularity, recorded Buena Vista Social Club named after the Havana institution, becoming an international success. Following the widespread popularity of the recording, some of the Cuban performers’ well-received solo albums and collaborations with international artists from different musical genres have been likened to a brand label encapsulates Cuba's "musical golden age" between the 1930s and 1950s – Buena Vista Social Club.that