8 Best Performing Arts in Central Cuba, Cuba

The open-air theater just north of Parque Martí, has live music and varied shows nightly at 10.

The "House of Culture" hosts several concerts a week at 9 pm and a street concert every Sunday at 4 pm.

This spot hosts live-music shows starting at 10 pm Wednesday through Saturday and on Sunday afternoons.

At the Casa de la Trova on the west side Parque Ignacio Agramonte, local musicians perform Cuban son in an 18th-century courtyard every day but Monday from 2 to 5 and 9 to midnight.

The cultural center here has high-season courtyard concerts by musicians from Camagüey. It functions as a dance club other nights.

The open-air ruins of this theater have a nightly folk-dancing and music show at 10. Daily percussion and dance lessons are also on the menu here.

The impressive Teatro Principal two blocks northwest of the Plaza de los Trabajadores hosts monthly performances by the city's renowned Ballet de Camagüey—consider yourself blessed and grab tickets if you're lucky enough to be in town when they're here—and regular concerts by the city's fine symphony orchestra.

The city's stately theater hosts frequent concerts and dance performances. Ticket prices are a bargain compared to what you'd pay back home to see a similar production. If you're in town when the Cantores de Cienfuegos, the city's famed a cappella group is performing, grab tickets.