In the past years the festival took the visitors, for example, to the Balkan, Slovakia, Russia and Mexico. Two soloists made an appearance at the Cuban Evening, trumpeter Jorge Vistel and singer Elsa Valle, who performed with the Gustav Brom Czech Radio Big Band. “Jorge Vistel is a brilliant trumpeter and a great talent, new school which follows up on the tradition of Arturo Sandoval and others. The second part of the concert was slightly different, Elsa Valle showed Cuban folklore. She is an excellent singer and has a great musician to support her, her husband Gábor Vinand, who accompanied her tonight. We don’t often play Cuban music and it is difficult for us Europeans to play, for example, salsa well, so it was a challenge for the orchestra,” said the bandmaster of the Gustav Brom Czech Radio Big Band Vlado Valovič after the concert. At the end of her concert Elsa Valle raised the viewers from their chairs with the song Mambo and made them dance under the stage. The concert of the group Son Caliente, whose members come from Cuba but live in the Czech Republic, followed. During the interval a group of Cuban dancers performed. By that time a real crowd was dancing to the rhythms and enthusiastically took part in the dance lesson. The viewers warmed up with dance on a cold evening and if not with dance, then at least with a glass of Cuban rum or a portion of the grilled suckling pig. There were a number of delicacies on offer as well as Cuban cigars and cocktails. The program ended at midnight and as a surprise a bartender show followed. “It is great that the audience took in Cuban music and Cuban culture so well. Music must come from the heart,” said Mario Herrera Marsillan, a member of the Son Caliente group, at the end.