A dancer of the Afro-Cuban IFE-ILE Dance Company performs at its annual dance festival in 2014. Courtesy of Nelson Alvarez/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 Later this month, rhythm and dance from the Afro-Cuban ...
Tonight, the Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts begins Summer of Music Season Five with a beat that will pick you up and set you down dancing. Direct from Cuba, via the United States, the Afro-Cuban ...
Havana, in Cuba, is renowned for its historic charm, vintage cars, and thriving music scene. For those seeking an authentic Afro-Cuban experience, Havana’s top clubs are the ultimate destinations.
A pattern is starting to appear in Cimafunk’s album titles. The Afro-Cuban funk artist named his 2017 debut “Terapia,” or “Therapy,” and his 2021, Grammy-nominated follow-up was called “El Alimento,” ...
Grammy-nominated Cuban musician Cimafunk is bringing his Afro-Cuban rhythms and Black American funk energy to West Palm Beach this Friday. Dubbed the James Brown of Cuba, Cimafunk — who has jammed ...
There are unlimited reasons to love Cuban music, but what draws me the most is the relentless, resilient joy at its heart. The island’s grooves have a century-long history of sparking international ...
In the best of times, the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival has served as San Francisco’s most democratic cultural institution, presenting a vast array of free cultural events in an eminently accessible ...
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 ...
Don’t tell Susan Matthews what she can and can’t paint. An artist with a mind all her own, she has ventured to remote villages in Cuba and met Black folk that few North Americans have known or cared ...
Acclaimed living legend of Afro-Cuban music, seven-time GRAMMY Award winner and six-time Latin GRAMMY Award winner Chucho Valdés celebrates his lauded 60-year recording career with an instant-classic, ...