No es el fin carlos varela biography
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Since I was unable to attend the Woodstock Film Festival this year, Woodstock singer/songwriter (and ex-music critic) Charles Lyonhart covered the event in my place. The highlight of his week was meeting and interviewing Cuban troubadour Carlos Varela, often referred to as his country's Bob Dylan. On Sept. 30, Varela opened the festival's 16th edition with a concert at the Ulster Performing Arts Center featuring Jackson Browne, following a screening of Ron Chapman's documentary about Varela, The Poet of Havana. Here's Lyonhart's report:
I already knew Carlos Varela's music. After I heard Varela's song, Walls and Doors, on Jackson Browne's latest release, Standing in the Breach, I listened to as much Carlos Varela as I could get my hands on.
Cuban troubadour Carlos Varela, bass player Julio Cesar Gonzalez Ochoa and Jackson Browne open the Woodstock Film Festival
photo: Simon Russell
The poetry of Walls and Doors was of a caliber I had not heard in a very long time. Lines like: "Of what use is the moon if you don't have the night?/ Of what use is a windmill with no Quixote left who'll fight?" Or: "At some point on the horizon sky can be confused with earth."
Although Varela sings in Spanish, you don't have to understand his words to know what
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Premiere: Cuban singer-songwriter Carlos Varela’s new tune ‘California’ dedicated to victims of wildfires