Latino Art Market Heats up in Fair Haven
Tagged: Connecticut, HIVPosted on: June 11th, 2007“”This guy is really in a zone,” said Charlie Diaz. “I mean just look at the mans eyes, and his face. Oh yeah, those hands are playing the conga all by themselves. I can even tell you what make the conga is.”
Diaz should know. In his professional life as a musician he is called Charlie Conga Diaz, one of New Havens well known “congeros,” and the head of the group Sabor Latino. Over the weekend he was admiring the acrylic-on-canvas painting of the man standing to his left, Felipe Soltero, one of ten artists showing in “Latino Passages,” the most recent offering at ARTE, the three-year-old Latino cultural organization and gallery on Grand Avenue just before the bridge.”
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