Receive 50% off SPA’s Opening Weekend shows, and pay only $24 for rear orchestra seats! Party Cuban-style with Omara Portuondo, the Diva from Buena Vista Social Club, at 8 pm on Fri., Oct. 8, at Jones Hall. Join Ira Glass, the host of public radio’s “This American Life” on Sat., Oct. 9, at Jones Hall. Both events presented by Society for the Performing Arts.
Next to hand-rolled cigars and arguably the world’s best rum, Cuba is admired for its tantalizing, hip-swaying music. And it’s Omara Portuondo, the island’s musical sweetheart for more than half a century, whose passionate and moving voice helped send this music pulsating beyond Cuba’s shores. She danced and sang at the famed Tropicana Club and even performed with Nat King Cole. As the only female member of the Buena Vista Social Club™, Portuondo transcended the landmark album and film with two Grammy Award nominated records of her own, all the while enchanting audiences around the globe with her effervescence and timeless charm. Join this 2008 Latin Grammy winner as she and her band bring down the house with a non-stop 80th birthday celebration!
FREE Salsa Lessons & Dancing!
Join the dancers of Strictly Street Salsa for salsa lessons and dancing before the performance.
Free and open to the public
6-6:45 pm In front of Jones Hall
Join the dancers of Strictly Street Salsa for salsa lessons and dancing before the performance.
Free and open to the public
6-6:45 pm In front of Jones Hall
Ira Glass remains truly an American original and completely one of a kind. The New York Times calls him “not only a journalist, but also a storyteller who filters his interviews and impressions through a distinctive literary imagination, an eccentric intelligence, and a sympathetic heart.” Now “This American Life” host/producer Ira Glass returns to Houston for an evening that takes audience members behind the scenes of his public radio broadcast. Glass will dissect the process of taking raw material – monologues, interviews, recorded events – and with careful editing and added music, show how he creates compelling narratives.
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