The event focuses on preserving traditions and promoting the heritage of Artemisa, its founder and director Jorge Luis Robaina told Prensa Latina.

The festival, dedicated to lute player Erdwin Vichot, will take place in the cultural spaces at the Angerona Coffee Plantation, Juarez movie theater, the Artemisia Cultural Plaza, the Albúm Kafé central park, Libertad Park, and the provincial headquarters of the National Association of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC).

Bands such as Toques del Río, Buena Fe, Bamboleo, Karamba, Grupo de Polo Montañez, and musicians Laritza Bacallao, Waldo Mendoza, Wil Campa, and finalists of the Sanremo Music Awards, stand out among the artists who will perform these days.

The event also includes master lectures, meetings with sports stars, culinary and cocktail competitions, an area dedicated to children and young people to interact with new technologies, and contests of Rueda de Casino, a Cuban dance in which couples dance to salsa music in a circle, switch partners, and perform turns and other moves in sync.

The History Route, which includes visits to the Buenavista Coffee Plantation, Las Terrazas Community, home of singer-songwriter Polo Montañez, and the old Angerona Coffee Plantation, are the festival’s other attractions.

A meeting between intellectual Fernando Rodriguez Sosa and lute player Vichot as a guest, and the Ruedas de Casino event at the cultural square, are also on the list.

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