Yonder de Jesus & Banda Ashé

Yonder de Jess

 He was graduated as a Percussionist at La Escuela Nacional de Instructores de Arte in La Habana in 1992.

He has been a member of "Isaac Delgado y su Orquesta" and a founding member

of "Klimax" by Giraldo Piloto.

With these bands he has performed at festivals such as "Womex Festival", "North Sea Jazz Festival", "Montreaux  Jazz Festival", "New Morning Festival", among many others.

He has participated in more than 20 recording projects, one of which,

"La Rumba Soy Yo" won the Latin Grammy in 2011 at Traditional Music section

as Best Folk Album.

With the album "lbum de Cuba" was also nominated for the Grammy Latinos

in 2010 in the category of "Best Album of  Contemporary Tropical Music".

Banda Ash

Banda Ash  was borned, as a pilot project, by the percussionist Yonder de Jess in  2009 and it was consolidated in its current formation with their first recording project, "Antao con Swing", in 2013.

Through a repertoire which combines our own songs and cover versions of anthological Cuban songs, we try to show our own perspective on this music, through the renewal of the principal cells of the Son, combining traditional sounds with other more contemporary, but always respecting the concept and authenticity that give meaning to this genre.

We propose a very innovative formula that suggests a fusion of the Typical Orchestra with its violins and the Set of Son with its trumpets that is our main hallmark nowadays when the strings have been gradually replaced by metal sections at almost all Cuban groups.