Patrick Alban & His Buena Vista Social

For 2025, Patrick's new Project is call Patrick Albán And His Buena Vista Social, This new band comes from many years of personal musical ideas in Patrick's world. "Many years ago, I was in Quito, Ecuador and heard this group playing in this bar and loved the music they were playing, it was so unique, I just had to know who’s songs were they performing, came back to the US found the group and talked to Juanito and ask him to learn a couple of their songs, people in DC didn’t know the group yet and the latin groups were all stuck on the heavy Salsa feel, I loved the flavor and the history of the group and insisted in learning a few of their songs and include them in our repertoire, some people including myself thought these guys are old but so good, maybe that was the reason musicians in DC were not really interested in learning any of their tunes, after learning a few of their songs and performing them in my shows all of the sudden I have become one of those old guys! The name of the band was The Buena Vista Social Club! The results have been amazing, nowadays a lot of the Latin bands play a song or 2 from The Buena Vista Social Club, I can honestly say that they have been a big part of my musical career!