Salsa: A tribute to El Gran Combo With Webcast

Today, Popular announced it will broadcast to all those fans around the world, its new musical production "Salsa: A tribute to El Gran Combo" through the Internet via www.especialdelbancopopular.com. In addition new production will be broadcast not only in the main networks of Puerto Rico and WAPA America but in various TV channels in the United States such as Telemundo.

"We are pleased to broadcast the new musical production through the Internet as a beautiful gift to all fans of El Gran Combo across the world," said Teruca Rullán, Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications Popular, Inc.

This new musical offering showcases artists such as Edgar Daniel, NG-2, Carolina La O, La India, Willie Colón, Domingo Quiñones, Issac Delgado, Luisito Carrión, Tito Rojas, Michael Stuart, José Alberto “El Canario,” the Symphony Orchestra from the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music featuring Roselín Pabón, and El Gran Combo, among others.

As in previous years, the funds raised from CD and DVD sales will go to the Fundación Banco Popular, which will use them for music education for children and young people. The Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music, the “Escuelas Libres de Música” and the Loaíza Cordero High School, are some of the entities that have benefitted from funds raised from the music specials’ sales.

Isidro Infante was in charge of the music production while Rojo Chiringa did the film production and the Behind the Scenes feature. Reaktor did the post-production and Gabriel Coss edited the special.

The production airs this coming Sunday, December 5 in Puerto Rico and the U.S. The schedule for both Puerto Rico and the U.S. is listed bellow.

TV schedule of the special this Sunday in Puerto Rico is:

Radio - Salsoul - 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Channels 4, 7, 11, 13 and station Z93 - 8:00 p.m.

Mega TV - 9:00 p.m.

Singapore - 10:00 p.m.

In the U.S.:

December 5, 8:00 PM

Telemundo Orlando, Tampa, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Hartford, Washington

WAPA America

December 11, 5:00 PM

Telemundo New York and Miami