Buena Vista Social Club New York Performances

*Buena Vista Social Club* is a recent stage musical (2023), built around the repertory associated with the Buena Vista Social Club recordings, with a book by Marco Ramirez. In New York, it appears in a Groupmuse NYC context at the Delancey, where Son Montuno and rotating tribute lineups—including Grammy-nominated musicians—treat the material as living ensemble music rather than museum repertory. The arrangements foreground Cuban son’s interlocking pulse, horn voicings, and cyclical vamps, leaving space for improvisation. It also reflects how Cuban popular music has been reinterpreted and sustained in the city’s Latin diasporic circuits.