Buena Vista Social Club Concert History

Buena Vista Social Club is an ensemble of Cuban musicians established in 1996 to revive the music of pre-revolutionary Cuba. The project was organized by World Circuit executive Nick Gold, produced by American guitarist Ry Cooder and directed by Juan de Marcos González. They named the group after the homonymous members' club in the Buenavista quarter of Havana, a popular music venue in the 1940s. To showcase the popular styles of the time, such as son...

Date Concert Venue Location
Oct 23, 2014
Buena Vista Social Club
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Ankara Congressium Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
Sep 28, 2014
Adams Avenue Street Fair
"Adams Avenue Street Fair" / The Album Leaf / The Loons / The She's / We Are Sirens / The Moves / Robin Henkel / Kevin Martin / John Hull / Samantha Aiken / Heartless Bastards / The Kinsey Report / Missy Andersen / Sue Palmer / Revival / Buena Vista Social Club / The Bixby Knolls / The Pheasants / Lessons From Zeke / Lisa sanders / Tom Brosseau / Peter Bolland / Jeff Berkley / Rob Deez / Kenny Eng Show all bands
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Adams Avenue San Diego, California, United States
Oct 21, 2013
Buena Vista Social Club Royal Albert Hall London, England, United Kingdom
Oct 11, 2013
Buena Vista Social Club Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center New York, New York, United States
Sep 14, 2013
Buena Vista Social Club / Omara Portuondo / Manuel 'Guajiro' Mirabal Centennial Hall, University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona, United States
Jul 11, 2013 –
Jul 13, 2013
Pohoda Festival 2013
Major Lazer / Smashing Pumpkins / Bloc Party / Diplo / Justice / Kaiser Chiefs / MØ / Bonobo / SBTRKT / Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds / Django Django / Buena Vista Social Club / Youth Lagoon / Nick Cave / Amon Tobin / Quantic / Ásgeir / Atoms For Peace / iamamiwhoami / Dengue Fever / Tony Allen / Erol Alkan / Two Fingers / Naive New Beaters / Beak> / The Bots / Bonga / Karin Park / Ewert and the Two Dragons / Cathy Davey / O. Children / Ondatropica / Babylon Circus / Dubioza kolektiv / Mixhell / Skip & Die / Maïa Vidal / Batida / Za! / Anthony Joseph & the Spasm Band / Kouyate-Neerman / MIDI Lidi / Para / Bad Seeds / Polemic / Prago Union / Vec / Zrni / Xavier Baumaxa / Amo / Prazsky Vyber / Ghymes / Walter Schnitzelsson / Sam Lee and friends / Modre hory / Malalata / SAZ / Ventolin / Cafe Aman Istanbul / Bratri Ebenove / RADIOMATIC / Zlokot / Davová Psychóza / My Dead Cat / Kyklos Galaktikos / Andrej Seban Band / Tibor Holoda Show all bands
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Unknown venue Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Jul 27, 2012 –
Jul 29, 2012
Womad 2012
Robert Plant / Buena Vista Social Club / Jimmy Cliff / Ane Brun / Keb' Mo' / Ben l'Oncle Soul / Hugh Masekela / Shapeshifter / Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra / Boubacar Traoré / Grupo Fantasma / The Wilderness of Manitoba / Raghu Dixit / Peatbog Faeries / Dakha Brakha / Spiro / Mama Rosin / Lo'jo / Revere / Pine Leaf Boys / Kimmo Pohjonen / Dizraeli and the Small Gods / Jupiter and Okwess International / Terem Quartet / Narasirato / Kareyce Fotso / Sensational Space Shifters / The Alaev Family / Kimmo Pohjonen, Juuso Hannukainen and Dakhabrakha / balkan alien sound / Joe Driscoll & Seckou Kouyate / Ballet Nimba / Juuso Hannukainen Show all bands
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Swindon, England, United Kingdom
Jul 21, 2012
Nova Jazz & Blues Night
"Nova Jazz & Blues Night" / george Benson / Buena Vista Social Club / Maceo Parker / Omara Portuondo / Lizz Wright / Raul Midon / Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Ottakringer Arena Wiesen, Burgenland, Austria
Aug 24, 2011
Buena Vista Social Club / Omara Portuondo / Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club / Manuel 'Guajiro' Mirabal / Arturo Sandoval / Stefon Harris / David Sánchez / Olga Kern / Los Angeles Philharmonic Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, California, United States
Apr 17, 2011
Buena Vista Social Club / Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club / Omara Portuondo Brighton Dome Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Nov 11, 2010
Buena Vista Social Club
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Foundation of the Hellenic World / Ίδρυμα Μείζονος Ελληνισμού Athens, Attica, Greece
Aug 09, 2010 –
Aug 16, 2010
Sziget Festival 2010
Calvin Harris / Muse / Major Lazer / Deadmau5 / Thirty Seconds to Mars / Papa Roach / Iron Maiden / Kasabian / Mika / UB40 / Yeasayer / The Hives / DJ Shadow / Die Antwoord / Faithless / Bad Religion / Madness / Billy Talent / The Specials / Buena Vista Social Club / Sander van Doorn / Boys Noize / Peaches / Simian Mobile Disco / Toots & The Maytals / Enter Shikari / Infected Mushroom / The Cribs / Children of Bodom / Gotan Project / The Wailers / Foreign Beggars / Public Image Ltd. / Fear Factory / Monster Magnet / Gentleman / Skindred / Aeroplane / Ill Niño / Ska-P / Charlie Winston / Danko Jones / Paradise Lost / Kamelot / The Skatalites / Gwar / K.I.Z. / Shantel / Tony Allen / Andy Moor / Adam Beyer / Subsonica / Erol Alkan / The Aggrolites / The 69 Eyes / Skip the Use / Alan Fitzpatrick / Nina Hagen / Breakestra / Toy Dolls / Black Box Revelation / Vive La Fête / Bayonne / Oi Va Voi / Wildbirds & Peacedrums / george duke / Chapelier Fou / Hjaltalín / Rupa & The April Fishes / The Young Punx / Ez3kiel / Dennis Chambers / Mahala Rai Banda / Ляпис Трубецкой / Los de Abajo / Cloudchord / Baskerville / Joel Mull / zZz / The Picturebooks / C-Mon & Kypski / Tankcsapda / Zagar / Besh O Drom / Amparo Sanchez / Make Believe / The Duel / The Inspector Cluzo / 30 Seconds To Mars / Péterfy Bori & Love Band / Parno Graszt / Gary Willis / Madensuyu / Heaven Street Seven / Anna & the Barbies / Hrdvsion / Flat Earth Society / Dean Brown / 08001 / Gorillaz Sound System / Renata Rosa / Volkova Sisters / Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird / Серебряная Свадьба / Jaune Toujours / Rada / Flore / Fat Cat / Daniel Kahn / The Toobes / Superbutt / Loop Doctors / Klezmofobia / Napra / Fanfare Vagabontu / Ladánybene 27 / Skarbone 14 / Jazzékiel / Eslam / Dubians / Cankisou / Ambientium / JIP / Angie Taylor / Lord Bishop Rocks / Synus0006 / Painted Bird / Rogerio Jardim / Bea Palya / János Másik / Surbahar / Рада & Терновник / Dalkloid Sound / Kees Van Hondt / Tommy Campbell / The Kistehén Melanko / Budapest Jazz Orchestra / András Lovasi / Kaido Kirikmäe / Hudaki / Turbo Band / Etnofon Zenei Társulás És Palya Bea / Gyongyi Salla / Robotrock Dj's / Cry of Shits Show all bands
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Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
Aug 06, 2010 –
Aug 08, 2010
Standon Calling 2010
Buena Vista Social Club / Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs / The Magic Numbers / Delorean / Liars / Efterklang / Sea Power / Anna Calvi / Alice Russell / Dry the River / Étienne de Crécy / Fucked Up / Jesca Hoop / These New Puritans / Jeffrey Lewis / The Phenomenal Handclap Band / Casiokids / Factory Floor / Clock Opera / The Ruby Suns / Esben and the Witch / Jude (US) / Jonquil / Egyptian Hip Hop / Wildbirds & Peacedrums / Three Trapped Tigers / Lulu and the Lampshades / The Phantom Band / A Hawk and a Hacksaw / Bo Ningen / Erland & The Carnival / Silver Columns / Manuel 'Guajiro' Mirabal / Gabby Young / Sound of Rum / North Atlantic Oscillation / Wild Palms / Harrys Gym / The Megaphonic Thrift / Mr Fogg / Revere / Escapists / Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club / Maddox / Joe Gideon & The Shark / Delirium Tremens / I Dream In Colour / We Used To Make Things / Toxic Funk Berry / Lazarus and the Plane Crash / Heart On Fire / Klezma Villanova / Sharp Knees / Spindle & Wit / Orlando Seale / Kattwyk Show all bands
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Standon Lordship Standon, England, United Kingdom
Jul 13, 2010
Pierre Bensusan / Leon Russell / Buena Vista Social Club / NaJe Yoshi's Jazz Club, Oakland San Francisco, California, United States
Jul 12, 2010
Buena Vista Social Club / Omara Portuondo Museumsplatz - SolarWorld Summer Stage Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Jun 24, 2010
"Celebrate Brooklyn! Perf. Arts Fest" / Omara Portuondo / Buena Vista Social Club

Celebrate Brooklyn! Perf. Arts Fest

Prospect Park Bandshell New York, New York, United States
Jun 06, 2010
"Breakout Festival" / Buena Vista Social Club

Breakout Festival

Villa Serra Genoa, Italy
Jun 04, 2010
"Nattjazz" / Hordaland 80 / Buena Vista Social Club

Nattjazz

USF Verftet Bergen, Vestland, Norway
Apr 04, 2010
Buena Vista Social Club QPAC Concert Hall Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Apr 03, 2010
Bluesfest (Byron Bay, AUS)
"Bluesfest" (Byron Bay, AUS) / Jack Johnson / The Gipsy Kings Feat. Nicolas Reyes / Lyle lovett / Béla Fleck & The Africa Project / Buena Vista Social Club / Donavon Frankenreiter / Newton Faulkner / John Mayall / Galactic / Old Crow Medicine Show / Carney / Joe Bonamassa / The Flatlanders / Josh White Jr. / Lil' Band O' Gold / Jessica Mauboy / John Cruz / The Greencards / Umphrey's McGee / Troy Cassar-Daley / Jon Cleary / Renee Geyer / Poor Man's Whiskey Show all bands
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Byron Events Farm Tyagarah, New South Wales, Australia

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Buena Vista Social Club / Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 on Mar 6, 2016 [881-small]

Buena Vista Social Club / Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
Mar 6, 2016
 Singapore, SG.01, Singapore
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Buena Vista Social Club / Ibrahim Ferrer on Apr 3, 2004 [370-small]

Buena Vista Social Club / Ibrahim Ferrer
Apr 3, 2004
 Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
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Glastonbury Festival 2003 on Jun 27, 2003 [154-small]

Glastonbury Festival 2003
Jun 27 - 29, 2003
 Pilton, England, United Kingdom
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Buena Vista Social Club on Jan 6, 2001 [800-small]

Buena Vista Social Club
Jan 6, 2001
 Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, United States
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North Sea Jazz Festival on Jul 9, 2004 [845-small]

North Sea Jazz Festival
Jul 9 - 11, 2004
 The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Buena Vista Social Club on Apr 14, 2001 [332-small]

Buena Vista Social Club
Apr 14, 2001
 Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
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Buena Vista Social Club on Apr 14, 2001 [333-small]

Buena Vista Social Club
Apr 14, 2001
 Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
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Buena Vista Social Club on Apr 14, 2001 [334-small]

Buena Vista Social Club
Apr 14, 2001
 Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
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Ibrahim Ferrer / Rubén González / Omara Portuondov / Ry Cooder / Buena Vista Social Club on Nov 13, 1999 [570-small]

Ibrahim Ferrer / Rubén González / Omara Portuondov / Ry Cooder / Buena Vista Social Club
Nov 13, 1999
 Escondido, California, United States
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Buena Vista Social Club / Ry Cooder on Apr 12, 1998 [623-small]

Buena Vista Social Club / Ry Cooder
Apr 12, 1998
 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Buena Vista Social Club on Jun 28, 2007 [296-small]

Buena Vista Social Club
Jun 28, 2007
 Athens, Attica, Greece
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tags: Ticket - Buena Vista Social Club / Ry Cooder on Apr 12, 1998 [743-small]

Ticket

Buena Vista Social Club / Ry Cooder
Apr 12, 1998
 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)


How many concerts has Buena Vista Social Club had?

Buena Vista Social Club has had 128 concerts.

What genre is Buena Vista Social Club?

Buena Vista Social Club is most often considered to be Folk, Jazz, Latin, World, Latin Jazz, Musica Tradicional Cubana, Cuban, Afro-Cuban Jazz, and Son Cubano.

When was the last Buena Vista Social Club concert?

The last Buena Vista Social Club concert was on October 12, 2024 at Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside, California, United States.

What setlist does Buena Vista Social Club play live?

The songs that Buena Vista Social Club performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the November 15, 2015 concert at Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico:

  1. Como siento yo
  2. Bodas de oro
  3. Rincón caliente
  4. Tumbao
  5. Bruca maniguá
  6. Black Chicken 37
  7. Marieta
  8. Trombón majadero
  9. Lágrimas negras
  10. Veinte años
  11. No me llores más
  12. Esta tarde vi llover
  13. Quizás, quizás, quizás
  14. Chan Chan
  15. El cuarto de Tula
  16. Dos gardenias
  17. Candela

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