As tensions rise between the United States and Cuba and the island braces for more economic difficulties, priests and ...

As tensions between Cuba and the United States rise and Cubans brace for further economic difficulties, priests and ...

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.

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 ...

Grammy-nominated Cuban musician Cimafunk is bringing his Afro-Cuban rhythms and Black American funk energy to West Palm Beach this Friday. Dubbed the James Brown of Cuba, Cimafunk — who has jammed ...

Batey Tambó will perform at CubaCaribe, which runs at various venues in San Francisco March 28 to April 4. Credit: LexMex Over the past two decades, San Francisco’s CubaCaribe Festival of Dance & ...

Farmworkers work in a tobacco field in Pinar del Río, Cuba, in 2023. The nation's people have been improvising for generations and will not be changed by more hardship. (Ismael Francisco / Associated ...

As tensions between Cuba and the United States rise and Cubans brace for further economic difficulties, priests and priestesses of the African-Cuban root religion known as Santeria held several ...

Minutes after returning to Miner Auditorium's stage, Juan De Marcos shared a revelation that would have discouraged many bandleaders. "I am very happy to play tonight for you," he told the packed ...

Mason, Michael A. and Snyder, Lynn M. 2006. "What Do Dogs Mean? What do Dogs Do? Symbolism, Instrumentality, and Ritual in Afro-Cuban Religion." In Dogs and People in Social, Working, Economic, or ...