The influence of Afro-Cuban music in Cuban culture will be high on the agenda of the 40th Jazz Plaza International Festival ...

In Cuba, pianists explore the wonderful rhythms of the island with their own percussive sense of melody. Roberto Fonseca's ...

A local performing arts center is bringing the Grammys to Queens. As New Yorkers recently celebrated their favorite ...

For a little more than three decades, Simmons has taught classes in West African and Afro-Cuban music and history at Duke University. Simmons says his djembe classes are typically small. But that does ...

When Bauza met Cuban bandleader Machito, together they transformed American popular music. Afro-Cuban music also offered immigrants a sense of pride and identity. It mixed secret Cuban 'spirit ...

Pinecrest Gardens, in collaboration with the Celia Cruz Estate, is set to honor the centennial of Celia Cruz’s birth with a celebration that includes an ongoing special exhibition and a ...

The show starts with a performance of the more traditional Afro-Cuban music and dance styles associated with Santeria, and ends with a high-energy rumba that gets foreigners and Cubans alike up ...