Buena Vista Social Club has announced its last tour. The legendary Cuban band will call it quits next year after two decades of making music.

According to the Havana Times, the tour, named Farewell Tour, will begin on June 25 with a show in the Congress Palace in Prague, Czech Republic. The blog said that Granma, a Communist party newspaper, has reported that the tour will include notable stops at the La Mar de Musicas festival held in Cartagena, Spain, on July 22 and the Royal Albert Hall in London on April 5 of next year. The group's last show will take place in Havana, Cuba, at the Karl Marx Theater in October 2015.

The Farewell Tour also features additional international stops, taking the band to stages in the Latin American countries of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru, as well as Mexico, Eastern Europe and South Africa.

According to Granma, after the Farewell Tour the members of Buena Vista Social Club will no longer perform together.

"Each of the musicians who have been part of it continue to perform with their respective solo projects," Jesus "Aguaje" Ramos, the band director, said.

Buena Vista Social Club was named after and inspired by the members-only Havana club of the same name, which was located in the Marianao district in Buena Vista and popular during the 1940s. The club closed after the Cuban Revolution of 1959.

The musical group was formed in 1996, when Ry Cooder, a U.S. guitarist, collaborated with Compay Segundo and the late Ibrahim Ferrer, both Cuban musicians, and Omara Portuondo, a Cuban singer, for an iconic recording, Havana Times reported. The band gained fame playing a mixture of Cuban music including the salsa, danzon, son and bolero. In 1998, the group won a Grammy award for their performance at New York City's Carnegie Hall, and in 1996 the group inspired the "Buena Vista Social Club" documentary directed by Wim Winders.

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