In honor of its 25-year trajectory, Gente de Zona also released its tenth studio album called Reparto, with the hopes of ...

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

This year's Ojai festival, led by super-flutist Claire Chase, brilliantly featured Anaheim native Susie Ibarra, who just won ...

Dámaso Pérez Prado created it by adding Afro-Cuban rhythms and instruments, kettledrums and elements of jazz to the danzón. Prado became the first Latino artist to hit number 1 on the U.S. Billboard ...

Celebration of Dance, Art, and Wellness! The event was held on Sunday, May 25, 2025, 1-5 pm, People’s Street Plaza in Leimert ...

His nine-piece band blends Afro-Cuban soul with funk — the clave and percussion instruments bridge deep-rooted musical connections between Cuba and New Orleans jazz. Cima underlines the ...

Gina Montet’s “Dangerous Instruments” gestated at Dramaworks in 2023 ... heritage and his country’s wider diaspora in the United States. Marrying Afro-Caribbean and Cuban musical traditions with funk ...

After beginning piano lessons at 5 years old and excelling in a number of instruments ... that paid tribute to Arsenio Rodriguez, a blind Afro-Cuban musician who’d died in 1970.

The Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Cuban Experience is headed by the man ... I’d never before seen two instruments working together as one. 4, Junior Brown at Squeezers Stage at Anthology.

There must be 150 drums and other percussion instruments in the wonderful ... It was Ortiz, a Cuban anthropologist and a pioneer in Afro-Cuban studies, who brought the African origins of Cuban ...

“Apparently they need everything,” said Patterson. “String instruments figure quite importantly in Cuban music, especially Afro-Cuban music where they borrow instrumental concepts from ...

Son is a distinctly Afro-Cuban musical style because it uses an African rhythm, Spanish poetic styles in the lyrics, and the use of plucked instruments. Right after enjoy a private Salsa class. Salsa ...