Gerardo Contino y Los Harbaneros was selected by NPR/WNYC as Manhattan’s best band of 2015. Contino is a Cuban singer/songwriter who loves to improvise, pull the audience into call & response, and provoke fans into “hip-shaking abandon.” In 2015, Gerardo also joined the Max Weinberg Orchestra as the lead-Latin singer for the group. He has toured all over the world and was an invited speaker and performer for TEDMED2014 in the Kennedy Center for the Arts, Washington DC.