RAMON TARANCO is a Canadian composer & guitarist who has recorded 3 CDs of his unique latin-tinged blues.
Born in Havana & raised in Toronto, Ramon has Cuban, continental Spanish & indigenous roots: the Shoshone of Southern California and two tribes in Northwestern Mexico - the Yaqui of Sinaloa  & the Purepecha of Guanajuato.  

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Check out new stuff on Ramon's CD REVIEWS page

May 30th 2021 - Gonzalo Rivero Mateo
played the entire Cuban Blues Man CD on
Road Blues Radio  ​(São Paulo, Brazil)  

February 26 2021 - NEWS !!!
Ramon is a semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition out of Nashville. His "Suicide Hotel Boogie" has been shortlisted for the ISC 2020 top blues song award.

Click the button below to preview Ramon's October 2020 single...

Isolation Blues II

​photo above (left): Ramon Taranco @ Corners Bar in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada -  on February 27th 2020 - after his ...

NEW ORLEANS RHYTHM & BLUES PARTY
with RAMON TARANCO + THE HAVANA BLUES REVUE 
​(the concert poster & venue marque are on Ramon's "Gigs" page)

photo above (right): Ramon Taranco after a performance on December 14th 2018 @ The Falcon & Firkin in Richmond Hill.
photos below; Ramon Taranco (guitar), Raul Abreu Pineda (drums) & Ruben Vazquez (keyboard) playing Corners Bar, Richmond Hill (Feb 27/20).

photo above: Ramon Taranco & Raul Abreu Pineda @ Harlow Sound recording studio, Rexdale Ontario Canada, March 2018

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Ramon Taranco playing at the Woodbridge Ontario RibFest, August 2017.

2017 / 2018 RADIO INTERVIEWS

March 11 2018 - Ramon talked about his unique fusion of musical styles
with DJ Haff on
"The Colourblind Blues Show" Radio Gwendolen 1287 AM, Leicester UK 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jmo1a13jed67rm8/CBS%20Ramon%20Taranco%20Interview%2011.3.18.mp3?dl=0
 

Nov 5 2017 - RAMON TARANCO TALKS ABOUT BRITISH BLUES
and more in this incredible interview with Kev "Legs" Walker on The Cat FM's "Shades of Blues" out of Crewe UK. The one hour feature segment starts about 53 minutes into the show.  Here's the link...
http://thisisthecat.com/listen-shades-blues-061117/

Sept 29 2017 - SO MANY FASCINATING ANECDOTES !!!
Ramon did a wonderful on-air interview with DJ Francesca d'Alessio on "Do I Move You" KPOO FM, San Francisco. If you want to hear "the story-behind-the-song-lyrics," click on the link below. 
The interview starts 1 hour into the show...​
drive.google.com/file/d/0BweSGQybuVkkcGNNVnN1R1FJSGc/view

L-R Jackie Richardson, Betty Richardson, Yohanna van der Kley & Liz Tilden - the vocal chorus in the studio recording "Sugar Cane Rider" & "Hard Work" for Ramon's Music From the Bermuda Triangle CD

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Ramon Taranco + His Havana Blues Revue @ The Groove in Greenwich Village, Feb 4 2012; L-R: Ramon Taranco (guitar), Cinque Ubangi Kemp (drums), Judd Nielsen (keyboard), Dave Cutler (bass); photo by Andrew Jack

Ramon Taranco portrait by Mendelson Joe

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performing with violinist Igor Romanyk

International Airplay
Blues, jazz and eclectic free form radio shows on public and commercial stations often play Ramon's music. His music has received airplay on hundreds of radio stations in 40+ countries around the globe. 
Scroll to the bottom of this page for a sampling of shows & stations that have played Ramon's music.
Live Radio Performances & Interviews

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​UK: CAT FM (Crewe): Shades of Blues; Leicester Community Radio: "The Colourblind Blues Show"

USA:
New York City - WBAI FM: The Gutbucket Blues Show, Radio Libre, New World Gallery
San Francisco - KPOO FM: Do I Move You

CANADA:
Toronto - CBC Radio One: Morningside, Musical Friends; CKLN FM

AIRPLAY​

USA
   
Alabama: Wildman Steve Radio (Auburn)  
Alaska:  KGOT (Anchorage), KIAK (Fairbanks)
Arizona:  Eclectic City (Mesa)
Arkansas:  "Something Blue" KASU (Jonesboro)
California: "Do I Move You"  KPOO FM: 1 hr feature  incl. live interview (San Francisco); Indie104 FM (Los Angeles); "New Orleans & the World" KRSH & Magikal Audio-scapes (Santa Rosa); "Basically the Blues' KZFR FM (Chico); Bigupradio (Oakland); Radio Brandy (Sandberg); Ambiant Channel (Cardiff-by-the-Sea)
Colorado:  "Digital Blues"  NoCo.FM (Fort Collins)
Connecticut:  "Black-Eyed N Blues" On the Horn Radio (Hartford); "Free Form Frenzy" on KBJB "Connecticut Rocks! Radio" (New Milford)
Delaware:  Soulful Tears Radio
Florida:  "The Blues Edition" WMNF (NPR) & “Radioio: Real Jazz” (Tampa), Blue Sushi Radio (Tallahassee), Indie Blues Radio (Riverview), "At the Crossroads Blues" & "Digital Blues" WLSL-FM (St. Leo)
Georgia: "A J's Blues Kitchen" WRFG FM (Atlanta); "Deep Cuts" WJUL FM (Young Harris)
Hawaii:  Blues & Roots Radio (Maui); "Digital Blues" Hawaiian Pacific Radio KOGY 95 FM (Lahaina, Maui) 
Illinois:  Chicago:  Blue Wolf Radio; Radio Cocoloco
Iowa:  "The Morning Show" KFGM (Des Moines); KISS 107.1 FM (Sioux City)
Kansas:  "At the Crossroads Blues" "Livingroom Blues" "Salty Dog Blues n Roots"  & "Rockin' the Blues" on Kansas City Online Radio (Kansas City); "Indie Jazz Show" KJIL FM (Abilene) 
Louisiana: New Orleans:  "Afri-Caribbean Journey," "Jazz From the Market" on WWOZ FM; "At the Crossroads Blues" & "Digital Blues" WXDR FM; Magic 101.9 FM "Les Routes De L'Impossible" 
Massachusetts:  "Voices of Jazz" (Worchester)
Michigan: WCBN FM: "The Latin Hour w/Michael G"  "Jazz Till Whenever" "Selective Memory" "Freeform w/Emma" "Sashay's Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop" (Ann Arbor) 
Minnesota: "The Big Blue Train" & "A Great Blend of Watercolors" KFAI 90.3 FM (Minneapolis) & 106.7 FM (Saint Paul); LOVE 105 FM & Radio Avenue iNet stn (Minneapolis); Free Radio Jackson (Jackson)
​Missouri: "At the Crossroads Blues" Radio Arts Fdn 107.3 FM & 96.3 HD2 (St. Louis), KDMR (Branson)
Nevada: Dekadance Radio (Las Vegas); "Digital Blues" KCOR (Henderson) 
New Hampshire: WHIP Blues Radio (Manchester); WZEO (Meredith)
New Jersey: WBGO (Newark);  "The Blues Hour" Bongo Boy iSpin Radio (Belvidere); Indie Jazz Cafe (Somerset)
New Mexico:  "Raices," "Freeform Afternoons" & "Overnight Freeform" KUNM (Albuquerque); Native Radio (Taos)
New York: WBAI FM: "New World Gallery" "Gutbucket Blues Show," "Radio Libre" & "First Voices Indigenous Radio;" KEXP 91.5 FM: 5 DJ's hosting "Variety Mix" eclectic rock freeform shows;  "Next Wave Indie Rock Radio;" The Apple - 920won iNet stn (Manhattan); Jazz 90.1 Swing & Blues (Rochester); Totally Gospel (Buffalo),"Beginnings" WUSB (Long Island), Radio Crystal Blue (Brooklyn), "Digital Blues" & "ATC Blues" on  WRAQ 92.7 FM (Angelica), "Good Time Roadhouse Blues" & "Damn Fine Blues!" Blues Music Fan Radio (Gainesville); "World Beat Canada" WRFA FM  (Jamestown); Global Community Radio (Geneva NY)
North Carolina:  Uptown Jazz Network (Charlotte / Greensboro); "Digital Blues" Troon Radio (Raleigh); "Deep Cuts" WART 95.5 FM Madison County (Marshall); Indie Castle Radio (Fayetteville); Troon Radio (Durham)
Ohio:  "Kaleidoscope" on Radio Artifact public radio, WVXU FM (Cincinnati); "Digital Blues" WNPA FM (Canton); Rukus Radio (Youngstown)
Oklahoma:  "Hardluck Jim & the Weekend Blues" KGOU (Norman), KZEO (Tulsa)
Oregon:  "An Evening of Afrotainment" KBOO FM (Portland); "Blind Lemon Blues" KBOG FM (Portland / Bandon); "Digital Blues" (Bandon); "World Beat Canada" KXCR FM (Florence)
Pennsylvania: "The Folk Show" WXPN (Philadel- phia),  "The Blues Guitar Place" (Stroudsburg), Xpower Radio (Temple), Mill Rift Radio
Tennessee: East Bank Radio (Nashville)
Texas: Houston:  "Son Pacifica" 1-hr feature w live interview on KPFT; The Beat 93.7 FM;  Streetcorner Internet Radio; "Blues Deluxe" (Arlington) (most widely-syndicated blues show in the US: on 100+ stns worldwide); "Deep Cuts" TMV Cafe (San Antonio); ​KANM FM & KAMU FM  (College Station)
Virginia: "Digital Blues" & "At the Crossroads Blues" WROF FM (Floyd)
Washington DC:  "African Rhythms & Extensions" WPFW; "Plastic Bohemia" PB Radio
Washington State: 5 DJs hosting "Variety Mix" eclectic rock freeform shows on KEXP (Seattle);   "Botucudo Latin Jazz Show" ORS Radio (Puget Sound) 
West Virginia:  "Digital Blues" WYAP FM (Clay); "Deep Cuts" on WVWP 101.1 FM (Wayne) and WFGH 90.7 FM (Fort Gay) 
Wisconsin: "Digital Blues" WRST 90.3 FM
USA (online): iHeart Radio (multiple stns, podcasts across the USA); "Latin Jazz, R&B and Soul show" Lounge Act Radio, Quest4Blues Radio; "At the Crossroads Blues:" Blues Jazz Radio, Cajun Soul Radio, Global Community Radio Channel 2, Radio Avenue/Folk Tyme, Jazz 90.1 Swing & Blues

Canada

Toronto: CBC Radio One: "Morningside" "Musical Friends" & "Fresh Air;" "Cafe Latino" JAZZ FM; CKLN FM; "The Songwriter Hour" & "The World Music Show" on Indie Talent Radio; Kemet Music Radio; CIRR FM
Montreal:  Radio-Canada (CBC): "Quand Le Jazz est La;"  "Blues Connection" & free form shows on Radio Rock Cafe;  "Unsung & On the Side" ROCK-FM.ca  CJIM “Rock Radio” FM 
Vancouver: "The Rockin' Blues Show" CJSF FM; "World Beat Canada," Roundhouse Radio; Banana Peel Radio  
Ottawa: "Rockin' the Blues From Canada" & "Sunday Night Mind Melt" CKCU FM
​Edmonton: The World FM 
St. John's, Newfoundland:  "Blind Lemon Blues" &  "The Sunday Morning Hangover Cure"  CHMR FM
Dorval, Quebec: "The Blues Cove"
Fredericton, New Brunswick: CKTP "The Wolf" 95.7fm: "At the Crossroads Blues," "The Rockin' Blues Show"
St. John, New Brunswick: CFMH 107.3 FM
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories: At the Crossroads Blues (on 39 stations across NWT including CKLB 101.9fm)
Whitehorse, Yukon: "World Beat Canada" CJUC FM; "At the Crossroads Blues" on 26 stations across Yukon including CHON (98.1; 90.5; 98.7fm)
Victoria BC:  "World Beat Canada" CFUV FM
Kitchener ON:  "The Groove" CKWR 98.5 FM
Kitchener-Waterloo ON:  "Community Connections" CKMS 102.7 FM, University of Waterloo
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Ashcroft / Cache Creek BC - CIFM 95.3fm
Barriere, BC - CIFM 105.9fm  
Chase / Shuswap, BC - CIFM 93.1
Chetwynd, BC - CHET "Peace" FM
Clearwater, BC - CIFM 92.7fm
Clinton, BC - CIFM 101.3fm  
Cortes Island, BC: CKTZ Cortes Community Radio 
89.5 FM
Dawson Creek, BC - CHAD FM 
Kamloops, BC: CFBX "The X" FM:  "At the Crossroads Blues" (syndicated on 27 stns worldwide) & "Stormy Monday Blues Show;" CIFM 98.3fm; At the Crossroads Blues Radio 24/7 streaming
Merritt, BC - CIFM 103.9fm
Okanagan Valley Radio
Pritchard, BC - CIFM 106.3fm
Powell River, BC: CJMP FM: "Rockin' Blues Show" & "World Beat Canada"
Sun Peaks, BC - CIFM 90.1fm
Salmon Arm, BC - CKVS "Voice of the Shuswap" 93.7fm
Westbank, BC - Boomer Public Radio  
​Mississauga, Ontario: Blues & Roots Radio:  "The Rockin' Blues Show" "The Blues Show" "Unsung & On the Side" & "Roots & Fusion;" "Sunday Morning Soul" THE HAZE FM 
Sudbury, ON: "Restaurant at the End of the Universe," CKLU FM
Thunder Bay, ON: CILU FM
Niagara Falls, ON: Blues Canada eRadio
London, ON: The X 106.9 FM
Cobourg, ON: Northumberland 89.7 FM 
Haines Junction, Yukon: CJHJ "The Griz" FM 
Taglish, Yukon: CFET 106.7 FM
Knowlton, Quebec: CIDI FM "Voice of the Eastern Townships" 
Norris Point, Newfoundland: VOBB "Voice of Bonne Bay - 95.9 FM & 98.1 FM in Western NFLD 
Conne River, NFLD:  MFN Miawpukek First Nation Radio "Voice of Conne River"  
Olds, AB: CKJX FM
Canada (online - no location listed): Blues Radio Canada
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 UK airplay:
ENGLAND...
London:
"Through to Midnight" Maritime Radio 96.5 FM; "A World in London" SOAS Radio, Resonance FM, Resonance Extra "Afro-Cuban Jazz & Blues" XFM London;  Blues & Roots Radio UK; Rock Radio UK;  Blues@ Rock Radio UK: "Red Hot & Blues Show" "Blues Corner" "Deep Cuts"  "Unsung & On the Side"  

"Roots & Fusion" PURE FM (Stockport)
"Shades of Blues" 1-hour spotlight on Ramon & his music including interview on The Cat FM (Crewe)
"Digital Blues" Gateway 97.8 FM (Basilton); "Messin' With the Kidd" Lionheart Radio 107.3 FM  (Alnwick, Northumberland); Rock N Blues by Hughes" Ridge Radio (Caterham, Surrey); CKYE Red FM 93.1 (Surrey); KEMET FM (Nottingham); "The Colourblind Blues Show" Radio Gwendolen 1287 AM (Leicester); "Nothing But the Blues" podcast (Leicestershire); "Blues From the Ouse" (York); "Big Blues Bonanza" (Merseyside); NEW4U, TEMPO 107.4 FM (Yorkshire); "The Blues Hour Extra" SEVERN FM (Gloucester); "Blues on the Marsh" Channel Radio (Dymchurch); "The Blues is Back," SAINT FM (Burnham-on-Crouch); "The Blues Show" The Academy 105.9 FM (Folkestone); Sword Radio (Wickford)
INTERNET RADIO
"Digital Blues" JazzJuice Radio & Krystal Radio;
Radio Bracknell; hCore FM; The Power Station; Wyrelite Radio; Ambient Channel's "The Fusion Jazz Show" 

IRELAND...
"Blues & Roots Radio" (Ireland)

SCOTLAND...
"Rockin' the Blues" on Paisley FM (Paisley) & My Rock Radio (Glasgow) ; ATUS FM's "Afro-Cuban Jazz & Blues Show" ; XFM - Scotland

WALES...
Red Dragon FM (Cardiff); "Red Hot and Blues Show" on GTFM; "The Blues & Soul Show" (syndicated across the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand & Malta); "At the Crossroads Blues" Sword Radio UK; The Wall Rock Radio; La Maza Blues; www.firebrandroxx.com
www.blues@rockradio.co.uk  

International (beyond N America & UK):

Africa: North Africa: "Radio Multiculti" (syndicated)
Argentina:  "La Maza Blues" Radio del Plata Parana FM (Buenos Aires syndicated in 9 South American countries, Mexico, UK, France, Spain; "Radio Jazz Cafe" (Buenos Aires)  
Australia: "Made in the Shade" on Sunbury Radio 99.3 FM, "Blues On the Hill" on 3NRG FM; Blues & Roots Radio, "Roots & Fusion," "The Rockin' Blues Show" (Melbourne), Zero Radio (Perth), Rody's Radio (Brisbane); "Drivin' Home with the Blues with Mississippi Moonshine Mama Irene Barrett" on CAIRNS 89.1 FM (Cairns)
Belgium:  Blueslovers Radio (Zolder), "Mapamundi," Imagine FM & La Petite Radio (Brussels), "At the Crossroads Blues" Radio X (online)
Bolivia: Radio Black Rabbit (La Paz); La Maza Blues
Brazil:  Road Blues Radio (Sao Paulo); Radio Avivanet; Conexao Radical
Chile: La Maza Blues
Columbia: La Maza Blues 
Cuba, Havana:  "La Esquina del Blues" Radio Havana - two shows featuring Ramon’s music
Cyprus:   Canal 17, Panikos FM
Ecuador:  Fusion Pocket (Cuenca)
Finland:  “Kauriin Kaantopiiri” YLE (National Radio)
France: Paris "Digital Blues" Ex-Pat Radio; "Kanal Blues" (1 hour feature show); Midnight Special Blues Radio; Reddog Media Bluzzradio; Kanal Jazz; Kanal Rock]; Extreme Radio (website is in 12 languages); La Maza Blues; "Digital Blues" Global Community Radio (Saint-Sornin-Leulac); 95.9 Radio College: Windows of Spain/La Maza Blues (Aytre) 
Germany:  "Linda's Blues" on Sixtym-Radio (Berlin); "Blues Power" on Weser Radio (Bremerhaven); "Spirits"; WDR Funkhaus Europa (Cologne);  AgF "Auf Gute Freunde" Radio (Mannheim); "Pops Tőnende Wunderwelt" - trans. "Wonderful Pop Music" (syndicated) on SFB Radio Multikulti (Berlin-Brandenburg) on FM frequencies throughout Europe & North Africa;  Radio Bremen
Eins (Bremen); Blues Road Radio (Rheinland-Pfalz)
Greece:  Athens: Blues Radio Greece; Radio Poko Pokito; CGS Radio, "At the Crossroads Blues" Moonshine Radio; Island Web Radio (Corfu) 
Hungary:  PositivHOE Radio (Budapest) 
India:  "Sunday Night Blues Show" World Space Radio (Bangaluru)
Israel:  "Traveling Blues Show" IDC International Radio (Herzliya), Kishorit Radio (Galilee)
Italy:  "Rock N Blues Today” Radio RCC (Umbertide, Tuscany), Radio Due Mila (Tuscany), Radio Byte Network, "Blues Channel" & "Rock Channel" on Network Studio 5
Korea: ORS Radio (Seoul)
Lithuania:  Tonic Internet Radio
Macedonia:  Ekrixi FM 99.7
Mexico:  Mexico City:  "Cultura Blues," "At the Crossroad Blues" Xpatradio; Fusión 90.1 FM (Veracruz); "La Maza Blues" Radio Chapingo AM 1610 (Chapingo);
Netherlands: "ISKC Blues Cafe" (Rotterdam), "Blues Moose Radio" (syndicated show, Groesbeek);  "Livingroom Blues" (Warder); Triple R Roots Radio (Utrecht): Aalburg FM, Triple R Roots Radio; Bandana Blues Show
New Zealand: "Rockin' the Blues" on Spellbound Harbour Radio (Gizborne); "The Blues & Soul Show" ; "Blues Deluxe"
Norway:  "Bluestimen" on Radio Loland FM, DAB & online (Vennesla)
Pacific Islands: Blues Deluxe
Peru: "La Maza Blues" Radio Lurin 106.5 FM (Ica)
Poland:  Znajdz Swoje Radio
Romania:  Dracula's Castle Radio; Mojo Club Rock Radio; The Blues Channel; Radio Vipernet (Bucharest)
Russia:  "Jazz Latino" Radio Hermitage 90.1 FM (Moscow & St. Petersburg), PositivHOE Radio (Yaroslavl) 
Saudi Arabia: Blues Deluxe 
Spain: "Red Hot Blues" Radio Vilafant (Vilafant) & Radio Cap de Creus (Cadaques); "Trebede" Radio Nacional de Espana (Madrid), "Mapamundi" (Madrid), "La Hora del Blues" Radio Pica (Barcelona); JazzSpain, Radio Vega Segura 106.7 FM; "La Maza Blues" Onda Poligono 107.3 FM (Toledo), Radio Baleares (online), ADASU 91.0 FM (Molino del Segura), Radio Universitaria AlcaLa de Henares 107.4 FM (Madrid), Radio Universitaria de Salamanca 89.0 FM (Salamanca), UPF Radio Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)    
Sweden: "Kalejdoskop" Radio Sweden (Stockholm)
Uruguay:  Pimba FM (Montevideo); "La Maza Blues" ARENA FM Departamento de Rocha (La Paloma)
Venezuela: "La Maza Blues" IllustreLaRadio

Ramon riding down the main street of Maximo Gomez, Cuba

Ramon Taranco & Raul Pineda Abreu performing at the Richmond Hill Ontario Farmer's Market, July 2017

Recordings

Over the Summer and Fall of 2020, Ramon released 3 singles, The Adventures of Bo Segovia II (July 2020); followed by Ghost Dance II (August 2020) and Isolation Blues II (October 2020). These 3 tracks will be on his upcoming CD to be released in 2021. WE'LL KEEP YOU POSTED !!!!

Ramon's Cuban Blues Man CD was released in November 2019. This is a latin jazz tinged blues-rock album.

Music From the Bermuda Triangle is primarily a world beat jazz album with some blues accents. The Adventures of Bo Segovia is mostly blues and funk. 

See our "CD Reviews" page to read what DJ's and music journalists have said about Ramon's music.

Our "Buy CDs" page links to online distributors. 

Also note: a list of artists who influenced Ramon's song writing is posted at the bottom of this page.

Ramon Taranco, Greenwich Village, Feb 2012

RAMON TARANCO + HIS HAVANA BLUES REVUE (core band) L/R: Yahoteh Kokayi, Ramon Taranco, Judd Nielsen - August 16 2011, photo by Jimmy Wade (NYC)

After eighteen years of playing guitar professionally and teaching in New York City (1994-2012), Ramon moved back to Canada and now operates a music teaching studio in the heart of Maple Ontario. He continues to create & record music and performs in a trio with Ruben Vazquez and Raul Abreu Pineda.
  

NEW YORK
In New York, Ramon performed solo, duo & with his band; including 8 concerts in the Guggenheim Museum's World Beat Jazz Series, "Celebrating the Diaspora: Strummin' the Americas" for African-American Heritage Month @ Bronx Museum of Fine Arts, played on-stage in Liz Swados' opera "Missionaries" @ Brooklyn Academy of Music's Majestic Theater, Queens Museum of Art, Harborside Jazz Festival, Stephen D. Hassenfeld Children's Center (Manhattan), Visions Institute for the Blind (Manhattan), Connie Lekas School (Brooklyn), Hellenic Cultural Center (Astoria, Queens), New York State University @ Stony Brook, Manhattanville College, Monroe College (Bronx), The Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims (Brooklyn), Latino Heritage Month Celebration @ Javits Convention Center (Manhattan), concert celebrating Martin Luther King Jr's birthday @ Newark Public Library, reBar Gastropub (Brooklyn), in NYC jazz & blues clubs ie La Belle Epoque (Cabaret Nights & Jazz Brunches), Izzy Bar, Mozart Cafe, Cornelia Street Cafe (NYC Soul of the Blues Festival) and The Groove.

TORONTO
While based in Toronto in the 80's and 90's, Taranco played at many of Toronto's iconic venues including The Riverboat (with Colin Linden and Mendelson Joe), C'est What, Hart House Theatre, the Windsor Arms Hotel's Courtyard Cafe, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, and in the Senator Hotel's Top O' the Senator Guitar Bar Series. He played for several years with blues harpists Carlos del Junco and Jon Dickie at The Water's Edge Cafe and in blues clubs including Zydeco's and Caps. Ramon also performed live on CBC Radio's Musical Friends and Morningside. 
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Ramon has also toured in Western Canada & several times across Ontario (including Sudbury's Laurentian University) giving concerts, lecture / recitals & guitar clinics.

Grants
Taranco received several arts grants: an Ontario Arts Council multicultural music recording grant, a composition grant from the Toronto Arts Council, another composition grant from the Ontario Arts Council, and a new talent recording grant from The Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Record (FACTOR). These grants made it possible for Ramon to continue recording songs for his first CD of original compositions, “Music From the Bermuda Triangle.” clinics.  

AIRPLAY CHARTS

In February 2010, The Adventures of Bo Segovia CD was #3 on the Roots Music Report international top 100 jazz charts and #10 on the New York State top 100 roots artists (all genres) chart; where rating are tallied based on airplay on 500 affiliated stations worldwide.

​Music From the Bermuda Triangle was on the European Broadcasting Union's World Music Charts in 2008 & 2009. In March 2012, The Adventures of Bo Segovia was featured album-of-the-week on Paris-based Midnight Special Blues Radio  & Vancouver's Cal Koat put it on the World Beat Canada Top 3 Albums list​.

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concert poster designed by Rega

NYC Blues Harmonica & Guitar Duo: L-R Jasper McGruder & Ramon Taranco

concert poster designed by Rega

"Ramon Taranco + His Sugar Kings" playing at Finally Fred's in NYC, June 1st 2001

concert poster designed by Rega

KUBA: L-R Basi Mahlasela, Ramon Taranco, Memo Acevedo

"Two Cubans Named Moe" blues duo: Ramon Taranco (guitar) & Carlos del Junco (harmonica)

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Young Ramon Taranco in classical recital attire

MOTOR (Ramon's Teenage Rock Band) in 1968

Ramon playing with "Motor"

"Motor" L-R: Ramon Taranco, Bruce Durling, Peter Mercer, Stephen Keen

Ramon's father, Raul Taranco riding on family plantation - Maximo Gomez, Cuba

tiny guitarman, Ramon Taranco wearing traditional Mexican garb - Los Angeles

street band - Maximo Gomez, Cuba

Jimi Hendrix - Ramon's hero

MUSICAL INFLUENCES:
Artists who have had an impact on Ramon's songwriting  

Jimi Hendrix, Lenny Breau, Muddy Waters, Jeff Beck, J B Lenoir, Steve Marriott, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Son House, James Brown, Lee Dorsey, King Sunny Ade, Guillermo Portabales, Sonora Matancera, Monguito, Dr John, Rolaand Kirk, Ebenezer Obey, Charlie Palmieri, Bessie Smith, Skip James, Benny More, Joe Cuba, Miles Davis, Leo Brouwer, Miguelito Valdez, Frank Zappa, Oscar Peterson, Sergei Prokofiev, Junior Parker, Earl King, Don Rich, B B King, Freddie King, Albert King, Robert Johnson, Chet Atkins, Pete Townsend, Buddy Guy, Magic Sam, Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield, Elvin Bishop, Fred Stone, Peter Green, Charlie Christian, Sony Greenwich, Django Reinhardt, T-Bone Walker, Chuck Berry, Grant Green, John Renbourn, Tim Mason, Captain Beefheart, & Fela Kuti