After nearly a decade outside New York’s stages, the Cuban-African group wraps up a tour that took the Matanzas-based musicians to a dozen American cities since April 2. The tour has been already labeled as historical and successful.

Diosdado Ramos Aldazabal, dancer and choreographer for the band, told ACN via telephone that the group has been very well received by the public in concerts and teaching workshops of Cuban-African dance, singing and drumming offered by some of the members of the band.

Ramos Aldazabal confirmed the presentations in New York for Thursday and Saturday at the World Music Institute, as part of the Sí Cuba Festival underway in that city since March 31.

 
Several media outlets quoted director of the band Diosdado Ramos Cruz in statements to EFE as saying that the US tour has been a reunion with their fans who have expressed their love as strongly as always.

 
Ramos Cruz also told EFE Los Muñequitos “is not a musical band, but a brotherhood. We are a family, my grandchildren are here, there are cousins, the founder’s children. It is a family group in which veryone respects each other,” he said.

Los Muñequitos was founded October 9 of 1952 in La Marina neighborhood by the Yumuri River, in Matanzas. It is considered by many specialists as one of the best and most important Rumba bands of Cuba.

Several media outlets have announced Los Muñequitos’ concerts in New York “with all the flavor and irresistible beat of Cuban Rumba.”