Music 'Us and the Cubans, our music and our people are the same' When a group of New Orleans musicians made the trip to Cuba, there was no need for an interpreter. 00:00 00:00 ...

AUGUST BROWN goes to Cuba to check out the Manana Cuba festival, the country's first electronic music festival since relations between the country were relaxed. The festival made a concerted ...

It uses an African rhythm coupled with Spanish poetic styles and the use of plucked instruments, and dates back to the 1700s. The music doesn’t stop there as mambo, timba and many other types of song ...

While there is no evidence yet that the party is over for Americans in Cuba, music lovers who have still not traveled to Cuba might want to move that experience up on their bucket list. Over the ...

BBC DJ, label owner and global music tastemaker Gilles Peterson's series of album has set a bar for American producers now eyeing Cuba as a recording destination. Billboard caught up with the ...

Sundial How a trip to Cuba - and music - taught duo Afrobeta about who they are By Carlos Frías, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson, Elisa Baena, Alyssa Ramos Published November 1, 2023 at 2:38 PM EDT ...

Music school in Cuba is free but, Denis says, it's very expensive to sustain that. "My school, ISA, for example, each musician uses an instrument given by the school — an instrument to learn and ...

I f this were a music video, it would start in this living room in Havana, with a tight shot of the skinny kid in the white tank top at the keyboard. He counts it off from four, and with a sort of ...

By 2008, the festival encompassed everything from hip-hop, rock and electronic music to independent film. Something very different had taken root, with people referring to the event as the ...

The Government of Cuba, through its Charge d’Affaires at Washington, Arturo Padro, formally invited the New York Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Walter Damrosch, to appear in a series of ...