The closing ceremony of the 18th International Cubadisco Festival 2014, was an example of the organizing committee’s wise decision to dedicate the event to Cuban percussion, with a show centered around this musical line and staring the National Symphonic Orchestra. Musicologist, Cary Diez, vice president of the most important Cuban discography event in the country, emphasized the success of the festival in which over 200 albums were nominated and received awards and to which artists from various countries attended, indications of the event’s prestige. Diez recalled that Cubadisco 2014 paid tribute to outstanding percussionists, to EGREM on its 50th anniversary, the late Juan Formell, creator and director of Los Van Van and Luis Carbonell, the Watercolorist of Antillean Poetry, who died on Saturday, May 24. The first part of the closing ceremony program consisted of works by Guido López-Gavilán, who also conducted the National Symphonic Orchestra during their performance.
