Victor Campbell & Timba Swamp
Victor Campbell & Timba Swamp is a Cuban timba dance band led by pianist Victor Campbell. Timba is a high-intensity, polyrhythmic style of Cuban dance music, and Campbell comes to it firsthand, having played with the legendary Cuban timba orchestras of Isaac Delgado, Alain Pérez, and Habana D’Primera before settling in New Orleans in 2019.
Trained at Cuba’s National School of the Arts, Campbell is a pianist of unusual range. Chucho Valdes, the legendary Cuban pianist, predicted he would revolutionize Cuban jazz piano, and Campbell has also contributed to the soundtrack of the film Sinners, which went on to Oscar recognition. The band has brought its Cuban dance party to Tulane’s Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies and to Wednesday at the Square alongside the Lost Bayou Ramblers. Tonight’s late set is made for dancing.