b'A SIZZLING SUCCESS!KOSA CUBA ONE-WEEK STUDY PROGRAM& THE FIESTA DEL TAMBORand his award-winning jazz trio - who wowedThe exciting nightly concerts of this years the Cuban audience with their experimentalFiesta del Tambor Festival included a SA-beat music.A special treat was hearing theBIAN night which featured many of Cubas talented American musician and film compos- top SABIAN and Gon Bops endorsees. Other er, Joachim Horsley (Beethoven in Havana)memorable concerts featured well- known who was actually a former KoSA Cuba partici- artists from Spain (the featured country of pant several years ago and now a part of thethis years festival)such as Ketama, a illustrious line-up of the Fiesta Del TamborFlamenco-fusion musical group which had festival.Joachim performed many tracks fromthe audience on their feet wanting more. his latest masterpiece:Via Havana CD andFinally, besides the nightly concerts, the he was accompanied by the Havana Sympho- Fiesta del Tambor also runs a national drum ny Orchestra as well as inviting Aldo Mazzaandpercussioncompetitioneveryyear on drums in a special collaboration. Anotherwhich is open to Cubans and international highlight of the week was hearing the Ca- participants alike. The lucky winners of the nadianpercussionensemble-Rpercussioncompetition receive much needed profes-(featuring:Luc Langlois, Robert Lpine, Aldosional instruments such as a drum set, tim-Mazza and Chantal Simard) who performed abales, bongos, congas, and various drum speciallycommissionedCanadianworkwithaccessories.KoSA Music is proud to be one the Havana Symphonythis marked the firstof the official sponsors of this event and time the group performed in Cuba after a longhasbeenbringingtheseinstrumentsas career of performing in nearly every corner ofprizes for the past 18 years to the Cuban the planet! people. 019'