DESCRIPTION:
Charanga del Norte
Director: Sue Miller


Charanga del Norte is the UK's only full charanga 'orquesta', set up in 1998 by bandleader and Anglia Ruskin University Popular Music lecturer Sue Miller. The band consists of flute, violins, bass, piano, singers, timbales, congas and guiro and plays 1950s 'old skool' Cuban dance styles of mambo, chachachá, son montuno, danzón and pachanga. Sue's book Cuban Flute Style: Interpretation and Improvisation will be published by Scarecrow Press in summer 2013. Today Charanga del Norte perform music from their more recent albums Our Mam in Havana and Look Back in Charanga.