{"id":188820,"date":"2026-03-12T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188820\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:39:09","slug":"tampas-yuengling-center-hosts-a-cubaton-festival-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188820\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa&#8217;s Yuengling Center hosts a &#8216;Cubat\u00f3n&#8217; festival this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"551\" data-attachment-id=\"354410\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/dale-pututi-photo-via-shazam\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dale-Pututi-Photo-via-Shazam.png?fit=2100%2C1485&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2100,1485\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dale Pututi Photo via Shazam\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Dale Pututi &lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dale-Pututi-Photo-via-Shazam.png?fit=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dale-Pututi-Photo-via-Shazam.png?fit=780%2C551&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Dale-Pututi-Photo-via-Shazam.png\" alt=\"Musician Dale Pututi in a high-fashion portrait; the person wears a brown leather jacket adorned with pearls, a patterned trapper hat, and large dark sunglasses. A blue paisley bandana with pearl accents is tied around a tan boot held near the shoulder.\" class=\"wp-image-354410\"  \/>Dale Pututi  Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/is1-ssl.mzstatic.com\/image\/thumb\/AMCArtistImages211\/v4\/0f\/1b\/45\/0f1b4514-12a9-6f60-6338-e2a6eb16d88f\/file_cropped.png\/2100x2100bb.webp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shazam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/12\/opinion\/cuba-america-war-trump-iran.html\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/12\/opinion\/cuba-america-war-trump-iran.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump has his way<\/a>, Cuba could be a very different country before the year is over.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of an April set by one of the country\u2019s finest exports (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/music-2\/gasparilla-music-festival-releases-daily-lineup-adds-cuban-funk-star-cimafunk\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/music-2\/gasparilla-music-festival-releases-daily-lineup-adds-cuban-funk-star-cimafunk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cimafunk, who was added to the Gasparilla Music Festival lineup this week<\/a>), stars of the Cubat\u00f3n genre\u2014including Latin Grammy-nominated Gente de Zona and Becky G collaborator Dale Pututi\u2014come to Tampa for a super concert of sorts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773329949_675_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa-newslettersignup-page\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/mar-12-18-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mar. 12 \u2013 18, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/rroa\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dale Pututi Credit: Shazam If Donald Trump has his way, Cuba could be a very different country before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[88425,88426,135,1865,137,136,6264],"class_list":["post-188820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-cubaton","tag-dale-pututi","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-concerts","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-yuengling-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}