The Grammy Award–winning Buena Vista Social Club are responsible for the biggest-selling world music album to date and continue to sell out venues across the globe over 10 years after their eponymous debut was released.
One of those performances, featuring the complete original band, was the one-night-only concert at New York's Carnegie Hall on July 1 1998. The New York Times wrote: "The concert was more than a musical occasion. Musicians from Cuba in their 70's, 80's and 90's, some emerging from retirement, were making their United States debuts at no less than Carnegie Hall. With the bittersweet delicacy of a classic bolero, the Buena Vista Social Club simultaneously celebrated the vitality and virtuosity of its musicians and mourned the era they embody."
Now for the first time, that legendary performance will be released on a special two-disc CD set on October 13 and guardian.co.uk/music has an exclusive free download of De Camino a la Vereda.
And you can watch highlights from their legendary performance at New York's Carnegie Hall in 1998.
