Cuban veterans fire up Womad. Tony Nielsen explains why
They were a late addition to Womad 2015, but one that has devotees of the music festival dancing with anticipation.
Although it's hard to pick favourites among the line-up of performers this year, Buena Vista Social Club are who every ticket-holder will want to see.
Decades of history swirl around Buena Vista Social Club, named after the Havana club of the same name, which closed in the 1940s. American slide guitar virtuoso and filmmaker Wim Wenders ignited world interest in the Cuban music genre in the late 1990s, recording an album then travelling with the musicians to Amsterdam and to New York's Carnegie Hall in 1998 to record and document their concerts. The release of the Buena Vista Social Club film in 1999 created intense interest.
Many of the original performers' careers got a new lease on life, even though they were in their 70s and 80s.