Free Outdoor Concert with Kiki Valera y su Son Cubano
Venue: Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Kiki Valera y su Son Cubano
Date: Friday, September 5, 2025
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost: Free
The Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech presents a Free Outdoor Concert with Kiki Valera y su Son Cubano on Friday, September 5, 2025 on the Patricia Buckley Moss Lawn.
Join us for a free outdoor community concert with Kiki Valera y su Son Cubano, masters of Cuba's iconic son cubano sound. With infectious rhythms, melodic tres guitar, and vibrant vocals, this music is made for dancing and for bringing people together.
Kiki Valera is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and producer, Valera is best known as one of the world's greatest players of the Cuban cuatro, a mid-size guitar with eight strings grouped in sets of two.
Son cubano is one of the most popular musical styles in Cuba, and Kiki Valera is one of its foremost exponents. Over the last century, this style of traditional Cuban music has contributed to many other genres of music, including jazz, cha cha cha, mambo, salsa, songo, and timba.
Valera, like most of his family, is a virtuoso: Valera is the oldest son of the famous La Familia Valera Miranda septet, a multigenerational traditional music group from Santiago de Cuba. Since the 19th century, La Familia Valera Miranda has played a significant role in Cuban culture by collecting and preserving the deep-rooted traditions of the legendary Sierra Maestra mountain region.
Valera continues to direct, compose, arrange, and perform internationally. He also performs and teaches in Seattle, where he contributes to the vibrant music scene of the Pacific Northwest. His current project features several other internationally acclaimed recording artists, including Coco Freeman (former lead singer of Adalberto Alvarez y su Son and NG La Banda), vocalist Carlos Cascante (three-time Grammy-winning vocalist of the Spanish Harlem Orchestra), trompetista Alexis Baró (Cubanismo and Omara Portuondo), and bongocero Pedro Vargas (Barbarito Torres' band).
Links:
• https://www.kikivalera.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/kikivaleraysusoncubano
• https://www.youtube.com/kikivalera
• https://www.instagram.com/kikivaleraysusoncubano/
Admission is free and all are welcome.
Grab your friends and your dancing shoes, and come celebrate music, movement, and community!
The Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech is located at 330 Turner Street NW in Blacksburg, VA.
To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/GhzYYs7Z/NTD25-Ad-400x850-Kiki-Final.jpg.
For more information, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/kiki-valera-su-son-cubano.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or https://www.instagram.com/artscenteratvt/ or call 540-231-5300.
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