The Bay Area has been a hotbed for Cuban music for more than half a century, and despite the persistent cold war freeze on relations with the communist-ruled nation, the temperature here keeps rising.

Despite the limitations on connectivity, artists can create songs and videos that circulate “all over Cuba within a couple of ...

WASHINGTON — In the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy managed the Cuban Missile Crisis. DC Casineros is just one of the acts performing at the Kennedy Center's "Artes de Cuba." (Yoav Magid) Over the ...

Upon arriving in Cuba recently for the 3rd International Scientific Convention of Cienfuegos, SUNY Cortland junior Madison Houghton and classmates experienced something akin to Bollywood or the set of ...

Like music in New Orleans and Louisiana, Cuban music runs generation to generation. Traditional music groups in the Caribbean island nation can consist solely of family members. Also like New Orleans ...

Ritmo de Orun combines the Spanish word ‘ritmo,’ meaning rhythm, and the Nigerian word ‘orun,’ meaning heaven or sun. The name encapsulates the two cultures that inspire the Afro-Cuban band’s style.

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