Orchestra Tropicana: Guillermo Francisco Fragoso Molina | Fiesta Cubana Show 5/10

From the Tropicana Club, Havanna, Cuba, New Year’s Eve 2009 Sad tales and an exuberant delight in dancing. Watch the full show: Subscribe to EuroArts: For most Cubans salsa is more than just a dance. It sums up the whole feeling of being alive and is a direct expression of joy and pride, an assertion of national sentiment. And could there be a more suitable stage for this life-affirming dance form than Havana’s legendary nightclub, Tropicana? Few cultural institutions have survived from the time of the Cuban Revolution, but this “Paradise Under the Stars”, which was founded in 1939, is one of those places where numerous musical trends have come together and retained their vitality right down to the present day. With its exotic plants, trees and waterfalls – all of them out of doors – Tropicana is more than a tourist attraction. Artists such as Xavier Cugat, Carmen Miranda and Josephine Baker have all appeared here on stage – a s