Tonight, the Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts begins Summer of Music Season Five with a beat that will pick you up and set you down dancing. Direct from Cuba, via the United States, the Afro-Cuban ...

A pattern is starting to appear in Cimafunk’s album titles. The Afro-Cuban funk artist named his 2017 debut “Terapia,” or “Therapy,” and his 2021, Grammy-nominated follow-up was called “El Alimento,” ...

Ensemble Arts Philly presents the dynamic and legendary ensemble band, Afro-Cuban All Stars, at the Miller Theater on Oct. 19. The Afro-Cuban All Stars, led by Juan de Marcos, are known for their ...

Cuban pianist Omar Sosa arrived in the Bay Area in 1995 by way of Ecuador with a few dollars in his pocket and not a single ...

GREENE: The music you're hearing here is part of a new box set that really captures the golden age of Afro-Cuban music. It contains five legendary albums featuring some of Cuba's finest musicians.

Cuban musicians have been dispersed around the world for more than half a century while seeking freedom and opportunity, but the family-like ties binding them together endure. Those ties and brilliant ...

Cuban pianist, composer, and arranger Zahili Zamora shares music that celebrates her background. Pianist and vocalist Zahili Gonzalez Zamora, electric bassist and vocalist Gerson Lazo-Quiroga, drummer ...

If you ever came across African diasporic music in North Carolina with live drums — like, djembes, dununs, shékeres — then there's a good chance master drummer Baba Bradley Simmons was involved.

Last year’s CimaFest NOLA was a chance for Cimafunk to tie together a lot of his life and work. He had recently made New Orleans a new homebase, and he along with his band La Tribu and a stage full of ...

Born and bred in Taiwan, Vincent Tsung-Yu Hsu is an award-winning bassist and composer who fuses jazz and Afro-Cuban music with his Taiwanese roots. Hsu was awarded a master’s degree in Jazz ...

The roots / John Storm Roberts -- What makes rhumba? / William Gottlieb -- The form and formation of the rumba in Cuba / Larry Crook -- Ponce, the danza, and the national question : notes toward a ...

Cuban music is a combination of Spanish décima poetry and African music and rhythms, but we know that the driving forces in Cuban music are the African polyrhythms, not the poetry. Some might say that ...