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Bohemian El Sauce
By: Pedro Quiroga Jiménez | Photos: Jorge Pérez
An innovative nightspot in the Cuban Creole image has become fashionable in Havana. Run by Artex, the Cuban commercial arts agency, El Sauce is a welcome new cultural centre and hipster hangout where trova music rules bohemian nights, delighting audiences in a space called a "Reggaeton Free Zone."
The three-year-old brain wave of Cuban host and music producer singer-songwriter Frank Delgado (of the Nueva Trova music movement led by Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés), El Sauce specializes in promoting artists of the newest trova and other fresh alternative Cuban music.
Many of the hippest music representatives of the island frequent El Sauce. Singer David Torrens, Haydeé Milanés, Diana Fuentes, Ivette Cepeda, Raúl Paz, David Blanco, the Buena Fe Duet, singer Tony Ávila, Roberto Carcasés with his alternative band Interactivo, and many others can be heard under the palm leaf roof of a large Cuban indigenous-style ranchón (a conical wood house) in a sort of café-concert...
the Cuban commercial arts agency, El Sauce is a welcome new cultural centre and hipster hangout where trova music rules bohemian nights, delighting audiences in a space called a "Reggaeton Free Zone."
Many of the hippest music representatives of the island frequent El Sauce. Singer David Torrens, Haydeé Milanés, Diana Fuentes, Ivette Cepeda, Raúl Paz, David Blanco, the Buena Fe Duet, singer Tony Ávila, Roberto Carcasés with his alternative band Interactivo, and many others can be heard under the palm leaf roof of a large Cuban indigenous-style ranchón (a conical wood house) in a sort of café-concert...
