French musicians Yannick Noah, Mc Solaar, Florent Pagny and Jehro; Ketama band’s former singer Spaniard Antonio Carmona; and Cuban musicians Ernan Lopez Nussa, X Alfonso and Raul Paz will meet today at the Karl Marx theatre at 8:30 p.m to deliver the second edition of the concert entiled Escuelas contra huracanes (Schools against Hurricanes), after their visit the day before to the areas hit by the hurricanes in the westernmost province of Pinar del Rio.

The musicians toured the town of San Diego de los Baños, in Los Palacios municipality, which was severely affected in 2008 by hurricanes Ike and Paloma. They also visited the Isabel Rubio school and gave a concert at the Federico Engels Vocational Pre-university School, where Raul Paz, the man behind this initiative jointly organized by UNICEF, the Cuban Ministry of Culture and the Cuban Institute of Music studied twenty years ago.

X Alfonso and Raul Paz played for nearly an hour and lived up to the expectations of the nearly 6,000 students that gathered there. The audience lived a new experience when French musicians Florent Pagny, Mc Solaar, Antonio Carmona and Yannick Noah went on stage. Bearing a certain resemblance to Bob Marley, Parisian Yannick Noah’s performance was thoroughly enjoyed by thousands of students who found themselves captivated by his musical genius. 

Today’s concert will be the second of a series of concerts promoted by Paz. The first one took place in Paris in May; while the next one will be in Spain in December. The funds raised will be donated to UNICEF.