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Havana, Cuba – 8 March 2025
1. Various of Yarima Blanco and Jany Quiñones playing the tres in a concert at the “Women by Eyeife” festival
2. Blanco, Enid Rosales, and Quiñones playing the tres
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Havana, Cuba – 7 March 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yarima Blanco, Cuban Tres Player: ++STARTS ON SHOT 1 AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 4++
“I had never seen a tres before, only on TV. Studying the instrument and daring to do what few women have dared has made my life have a different flavor.”
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Havana, Cuba – 8 March 2025
4. Blanco, Quiñones and Rosales playing the tres, audience cheering
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Havana, Cuba – 7 March 2025
5. Various of Quiñones, Rosales and Blanco seated playing the tres
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jany Quiñones, Cuban Tres Player: ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 7 AND 8++
“When a woman becomes a member of one of these traditional ensembles, the question will always arise: to what extent will she do it well? And will she fit in with the style, the concept, and be at the same level as the rest of the male members?”
7. Various of Quiñones, Rosales and Blanco playing the tres
8. Quiñones, Rosales and Blanco finishing performance, audience applauding
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Enid Rosales, Cuban Tres Player: ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 10++
“We are fighting against that, so that women have their own space and their own concepts and that whether ‘you play male’ or ‘you play female’ to say whether it is right or wrong disappears."
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Havana, Cuba – 8 March 2025
10. Various of Blanco, Quiñones and Rosales playing the tres at concert
STORYLINE:
Female Cuban musicians demonstrated their mastery of the tres at a concert that also coincided with International Women’s Day in the Caribbean island on Saturday.
The national instrument of Cuba, the world of the tres has been traditionally dominated by men, with a good tres player being said to play "like a macho."
But musicians such as Yarima Blanco, Enid Rosales and Jany Quiñones say women are now increasingly part of the scene, and playing in traditional tres ensembles.
“I had never seen a tres before, only on TV. Studying the instrument and daring to do what few women have dared has made my life have a different flavor,” said Blanco, after thrilling audiences at the the “Women by Eyeife” festival.
Blanco, 42, was the first female tres graduate from Cuba’s top art school in 2006.
During the two-day festival, the tres players, or treseras, held a workshop with other women interested in sharing their experiences.
"When a woman becomes a member of one of these traditional ensembles, the question will always arise: to what extent will she do it well? And will she fit in with the style, the concept, and be at the same level as the rest of the male members?," fellow musician, Jany Quiñones, said.
Quiñones, 34, is the tresera in one of Cuba’s most prestigious groups, the Arsenio Rodríguez orchestra.
Enid Rosales, 39, who in addition to being a composer is also a teacher of the instrument, highlighted a paradox: currently there are more women studying tres than men, but they have more visibility when it comes to projecting themselves on stage.
"We are fighting against that, so that women have their own space and their own concepts and that whether ‘you play male’ or ‘you play female’ to say whether it is right or wrong disappears,” Roales said.
AP video by Ariel Fernandez and Milexsy Duran
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