Patrick Bonnard - Cuban Music Photography

31/10/2025

29/10/2025

Abdel Rasalps “El Lele”, concert de Los Van Van, festival TEMPO LATINO, Vic Fezensac, le 29/07/2022.

24/10/2025

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Laissez-vous emporter par la magie d’Issac Delgado, l’une des voix majeures de la salsa cubaine, captée lors d’un concert exceptionnel au Studio de l’Ermitag...

23/10/2025

No se pierdan el primer estreno del concierto de Issac Delgado en el Studio l’Ermitage de París, filmado y grabado el pasado mes de junio para el lanzamiento del disco «Mira Como Vengo», mañana por la noche en el canal de YouTube de RFI. Y la gira europea de otoño que comienza la próxima semana en Orange.
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Don’t miss the premiere broadcast of Issac Delgado’s concert at Studio l’Ermitage in Paris, filmed and recorded last June for the release of the album “Mira Como Vengo,” tomorrow evening on RFI’s YouTube channel. And the autumn European tour, which starts next week in Orange.
Photos all rights reserved © Patrick Bonnard

Ne manquez pas la première diffusion du concert d’Issac Delgado au Studio l’Ermitage de Paris, filmé et enregistré au mois de juin dernier pour la sortie du disque « Mira Como Vengo » demain soir sur la chaîne YouTube de RFI. Et la tournée européenne d’automne qui débute la semaine prochaine à Orange.
Photos droits réservés © Patrick Bonnard

21/07/2025

21/07/2025

Issac Delgado, Studio l’Ermitage, Paris, 16/06/2025
Estreno en vivo del álbum Mira Como Vengo
Live debut performance of the album Mira Como Vengo
Présentation live en avant-première du disque Mira Como Vengo
Photo © Patrick Bonnard, All rights reserved.

07/07/2025

Alexander Abreu and Camilo Bonne Jiménez, after Havana D’Primera concert, on the closing night of the “Festival de la Caraïbe”, backstage at the floating stage in Enghien-les-Bains, on June 28, 2025.

Alexander Abreu et Camilo Bonne Jiménez, à la fin du concert d’Havana D'Primera, au Festival de la Caraïbe, en backstage de la scène flottante d’Enghien-les-Bains, le 28/06/2025.

Alexander Abreu y Camilo Bonne Jiménez, al final del concierto de Havana D’Primera, en el Festival del Caribe, en el escenario flotante de Enghien-les-Bains, el 28 de junio de 2025.

07/06/2025

Cuban legendary percussionist and founder of Los Van Van Changuito sadly died in Havana yesterday.
My first encounter with him was in a night train, returning from Salsa and Toros festival in Dax (south of France) in September 2002. This brief meeting inspired me the documentary project I initiated about Cuban Music. Few days later I photographed him alongside Tata Guïnes in a bar of Saint Maur Street in Paris where they were having a descarga.
RIP Maestro.

Here's an excerpt of this story published years ago in Timba.com
"In September 2002, on a hot summer night, on my way back to Paris after the "Festival Salsa y Toros" in Dax, south of France, I traveled in a night train close to Changuito and Tata Guïnes. They improvised a descarga, singing some rumba, until the train inspector came and made them stop. I was thinking " Dammit! Here are the greatest percussionists on earth and this guy who don't even know who they are ask them to shut up!"

Reminded me of the DA Pennebeker legendary documentary "Dont look Back", when hotel staff comes knocking at Bob Dylan's door and complain about the noise... I'd love one day to document a Cuban tour in a that cinéma verité style, just an eye to capture history.

So the next morning, on the Austerlitz station's platforms, I saw these musicians carrying themselves their suitcases, and I went away dreaming... From this brief meeting, was born my desire of telling a story. The story of these great musicians, raised in the spirit of sharing, their great sense of humor, who travel so far from Cuba (some of them, the youngest, for the first time of their life) to deliver their music for our delight."

22/09/2024

Singer Annys Batista and trumpet player Carlos Sarduy, members of the Rolando Luna trio. Jazz in the vines at the Sabazan Castle, July 28th 2024.