The Rolling Stones will perform a free outdoor concert in Havana on March 25, the band announced on Tuesday, a milestone event in a country where the communist government once banned the group's music as an "ideological deviation."<br />The Stones added the Concert for Amity show - likely to be the biggest rock concert ever staged in Cuba - to a Latin American tour that had been due to end on March 17 in Mexico City.<br />The performance will come three days after U.S. President Barack Obama is due to conclude a visit to Cuba, the first by an American president since 1928.<br />Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced in December 2014 they would seek to normalize relations after more than half a century of Cold War animosity.<br />The concert, which will be filmed, is set to take place on the fields surrounding the Ciudad Deportiva de la Habana, a 26-hectare (64-acre) sports complex.<br />It will mark the first open-air concert in Cuba by a British rock band, the group's publicist said.
