Students filed into the Harold B. Lees Library's Reynolds Auditorium to experience Afro-Cuban culture and jazz. For decades, this style of music has formed the basis of Latin jazz in the United States ...

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 ...

We're shine a well-deserved spotlight on Graciela Grillo, Tania Maria and more artists who made Latin jazz what it is today.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Halprin Landscape Conservancy is hosting a free Afro-Cuban concert at Keller Fountain Park in Downtown Portland on Saturday, Oct. 1, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The event, titled ...

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Gary Lang loved the concept, so when he was tapped to be a part of the project, he jumped at the chance. The premise? To put on a storytelling, musical, and dance performance as part of a two-year ...

To hear reparto in Havana, you don’t have to go far. It’s playing in every taxi, every café lining La Habana Vieja, on Friday nights at Don Cangrejo and Saturday mornings at Mio y Tuyo. A homemade mix ...

The Seattle band Anjuman combines the melodies of traditional East Indian music with the rhythmic vitality of Afro-Cuban drumming from 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday, March 29 at the Star Bar in downtown ...

HAVANA — Cuban teenagers Fabio and Diego Abreu seem shy at first, but the moment they step on stage, they become confident, filling a concert hall in downtown Havana with a hypnotic form of ...

If the ground trembles a bit around the Adrienne Arsht Center on Friday, February 9, don’t blame the State Road 836 construction project down the street. With an as-of-now sold-out house and a trio of ...

NEW YORK CITY — A 21-year-old South Florida star is shining in a five-time Tony-award-winning Broadway musical centered on a love of Cuban music that transcends politics. Wesley Wray, a University of ...

During its first tour of the United States, the Cuban band Cimafunk headlined Tipitina’s on April 6, 2019, bandleader Erik “Cima” Rodriguez’s 30th birthday. To perform in New Orleans at Tipitina’s on ...