Orquestra Akonan
Photo by Prudence Upton Sydney Festival with Daptone Records, present, ORQUESTA AKOKAN, in the Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent Festival Garden (Hyde Park) 15 and 16 January. ORQUESTA AKOKAN, is a big band mambo collective, comprised of some of Cuba’s finest musicians and others from New York, celebrating Havana of the 1940’s and 50’s. The band is led by Cuban singer Jose ‘Pepito’ Gomez and piano player Michael Eckroth and Jacob Plasse featuring a crack brass section. The Spigeltent had had all its furniture cleared and we entered into a ‘mosh’ pit style accommodation with the permanent ‘bank’ table and benches surrounding…