More recently, he brought Cuban music to Off Broadway with “Buena Vista Social Club,” a musical based on the 1996 project with a script by Cuban American playwright Marco Ramirez.

Canceling Cuban band’s Miami concert a lousy idea in 1999. It still is in 2023 | Opinion the Miami Herald Editorial Board May 20, 2023 at 12:53 PM Hector Gabino/El Nuevo Herald ...

Los Van Van performing in New York in 2010. Mr. Formell joined the band in 2014, after his father, the band’s bassist and co-founder, died. Brian Harkin for The New York Times ...

In 2010, Cuban band Los Van Van performed at the James L Knight Center in Miami. Hector Gabino El Nuevo Herald Los Van Van, the famous Havana orchestra formed after the Cuban Revolution, canceled ...

Hear a conversation between the Cuban musician and Alt.Latino host Felix Contreras from NPR Music's 15th anniversary celebration at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.

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.

Cuban-American activists have demanded cancellation of a Friday night concert by the acclaimed salsa band Los Van Van, which was founded in Cuba in 1969. Pembroke Pines, which owns the venue where … ...

King and his band will celebrate “Blues Medicine” on Friday at 9 p.m. at BJ’s Lounge in the Bywater neighborhood. Admission is $10. Little Freddie King at BJ’s Lounge.

Cuban band leader Juan Formell, a Grammy-winning singer and bass player for Los Van Van orchestra whose mixture of son and salsa earned the group the nickname "the Cuban music train," died in ...

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, or PHJB, will showcase songs from “So It Is” at the 2017 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival’s Gentilly Stage on Sunday from 1:55 p.m. to 3 p.m.

A two-month U.S. tour by the 15-piece Cuban jazz-pop band ¡ Cubanismo! has been canceled because its members were denied visas to enter the United States. The group had planned a 43-show, 34-city ...