Orquesta Akokán
Tickets available as part of a package starting on March 10. Packages are best purchased via phone: (805) 781-3009. The full list of package options and purchase dates is available online here.
Single tickets will be available April 23.
Orquesta Akokán burst onto the global music scene in 2018 with their no-holds-barred 21st century take on the venerable Cuban mambo lit up stages around the world with a fierce and unremitting joy. Chulo Records producer and multi instrumentalist Jacob Plasse, and arranger Michael Eckroth joined forces with a carefully curated selection of Havana’s most extraordinary musicians as Orquesta Akokán, polishing Cuban mambo’s golden sound to a luminous, contemporary sheen. Along the way Orquesta Akokán imbued these legendary Cuban grooves with a renewed vitality and powerful sense of akokán --- the Yoruba word used by Cubans to mean “from the heart” or “soul.