The music and religious community of Havana mourns the loss of Pedro López Rodríguez, affectionately known as Pedrito, a ...

Lovers of Afro-Cuban rumba are sure to turn out to see one of the genre's consummate practitioners, Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, playing here for the first time in nearly. Skip to content.

The Afro-Cuban All Stars, led by Juan de Marcos, are known for their vibrant fusion of salsa, rumba, jazz, and Afro-Cuban rhythms, and may have done more than perhaps any other artistic entity to ...

Bradley Simmons, instructor of West African percussion at Duke University for nearly three decades, died at 72 on May 22.

According to the legend of Los Munequitos de Matanzas, the Afro-Cuban music and dance troupe was born one day in 1952 in a bar called El Gallo (the Rooster) in the Cuban coastal town of Matanzas ...

Concerts and master classes inspired by Afro-Cuban culture will enrich the program of activities held at the 1st International Minini Por Siempre Event in the western province of Matanzas, to be held ...

The Ife-Ile Afro-Cuban Dance Festival is coming to Miami. ... Rumba, Conga, Chancleta, Son, Salsa—expanding to include Haitian styles, Afrofusion, and Caribfunk.

The best place to get an authentic taste of Afro-Cuban culture is at the weekly Sábado de Rumba (rumba Saturday) held in the shady patio of El Gran Palenque, home of the Conjunto Folklórico ...

Susan Matthews has traveled to Cuba nearly two-dozen times, connected to Afro-Cuban dancers, ... “Rumba Morena,” represents women drummers that Matthews met in Havana.

The intoxicating rhythms of Cuban music will entice and nourish the soul when the Afrekete Afro-Cuban Dance, Music and Culture Festival returns to Magnetic Island in May.

The intoxicating rhythms of Cuban music will entice and nourish the soul when the Afrekete Afro-Cuban Dance, Music and Culture Festival returns to Magnetic Island in May.