I was pleasantly surprised at one of the Love Now Media events to hear music from a talented young musician, Selina “Cvgebird ...

Bakersfield College instructor Robert Woods-LaDue and students from his fro-Cuban folkloric percussion class will perform a ...

Super Étoile and Youssou were of course steeped in Afro-Cuban music, as were all the African musicians who grew up with it, recognising in it a vibrant part of their DNA, and inspired by the other ...

The Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture will present ALBITA: 100 Years of Son Cubano, a concert honoring the iconic Cuban rhythm that laid the foundation for salsa and forever transformed Latin ...

Trinity College of Arts & Sciences announced the death of Bradley Simmons, instructor of music and director of the Duke Djembe and Afro-Cuban Ensembles. Simmons, 73, died May 22.

Brooklyn-based Dominican composer and guitarist Yasser Tejeda has explored myriad ways to mesh Afro-Dominican roots music with sophisticated modern arrangements while maintaining its cultural ...

Cimafunk brings funk and jazz to the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, and gives a history lesson behind African Cimarrons.

A wave of prominent Cuban artists — including singer Haydée Milanés, daughter of the late music icon Pablo Milanés — is leaving the island, often in protest of its repressive regime. But ...

This project will explore gender discrimination in Cuban and U.S. music industries as well as in academic and popular understandings of jazz. Meadows’ second book will also examine how Cuban women ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The Afro Everything Block Party is celebrating culture and community at Century Plaza in downtown Roanoke on April 12 at 2pm.

The festival concludes Friday, April 4 at the Community Music Center on Capp Street with “Afro-Cuban Sound: A Legacy That Survives Over Time,” an overview of the evolution of popular Cuban music.