Regarded as an Ambassador of 21st Century Cuban Music, guitarist, bassist, vocalist, composer and tres player, YUSA, is no stranger to New Orleans, as she has been spending time in the city and collaborating with many of our esteemed musicians since 2016 when she first performed with the Cuban band Telmary at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and officially made the Crescent City her home in 2019, after spending some time in Miami and Argentina.

YUSA is recognized as one of the leading voices of Cuban music today. Her compositions have earned the acclaim of both her contemporaries on the island and international admirers. Born in Havana, music and the ocean have been central to her artistic production as a singer-songwriter. 

She signed to the UK label Tumi Music in 2002 and released a handful of albums to critical acclaim, including multiple CubaDisco Awards and a BBC Radio World Music Award. In 2008, she founded her own label, Yusa Music, on which she released her 5th album in 2012. 

YUSA blazed trails in early years as a member of the all-women improvisational quintet Quasi Jazz, cementing her voice in the jazz fusion world, but she is perhaps most known as one of the core members of Quasi-Jazz to then go on and found the popular all-star Cuban timba-funk band Interactivo, serving as one its central composers.

She brings her vibrant blend of trova, son, pop, jazz, Cuban and Brasilian rhythms to the stage and leaves the audience always wanting more. Yusa draws the listener in with her uncommon and very personal style, integrating Cuban music with music from around the globe, avoiding clichés and achieving the ever-elusive “fusion.”

If you've seen Yusa live once, you still haven't seen her.

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TONIGHT, she presents her World of Rhythms project for two separately ticketed sets.

*Presented in partnership with the CubaNOLA Arts Collective.

Advance tickets are recommended, as her intimate sets at Snug Harbor's intimate listening room nearly always sell-out.

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Shows at 7:30pm & 9:30pm

Doors at 7:00pm & 9:00pm

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Restaurant is open 5pm - 10pm for dinner before or after your showtime:

Advance Ticket Holders can now automatically make dinner table reservations for the Dining Room online via OpenTable.com

Advance Ticket-Holders can also make table reservations for dinner by Emailing reservations@snugjazz.com after your tickets have been purchased online. Dinner Service without Advance Concert Tickets is first-come, first-served based on availability upon arrival.