Appearances by UK electronic duo Plaid, London DJ Mala, who has previously worked in Cuba; the Sofrito DJ and producer collective, Los Angeles based Chico Mann, Mexico’s Soul of Hex, artists ...

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 ...

On a typical Saturday afternoon in the Havana courtyard of El Palenque, drummers coax conga rumba rhythms into the air above the crowd. A thousand miles away, Sundays in Central Park also mean rumba.

When Daymé Arocena took the stage on Monday night for her Los Angeles debut, the 22-year-old looked resplendent in a white dress and matching headwrap.

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 ...

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

UC San Diego Park & Market’s Intersections concert series is hosting local Afro-Cuban and Afro-Caribbean music pioneer Gene Perry and his Rumba Ketumba band on Thursday, July 11 at 7 p.m. Gene ...

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

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

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 ...

There is Afro-Puerto Rican Jazz and Afro-Peruvian Jazz, too, but perhaps the largest sub-genre (some would say it’s its own genre) is Afro-Cuban or just Cuban Jazz.