Berklee Percussion Department faculty member Bertram Lehmann presents the second of a two-part series of clinics on Brazilian and Cuban drum set performance, drawing on his decades of experience as a ...

Since 2000, the "Guillermo Barreto in Memoriam" Drum Festival has shaken the streets of Havana, Cuba every year. Founded by popular percussionist Giraldo Piloto, this annual gathering — which was only ...

Dancers with any level of experience are invited to learn salsa, timba and conga from Afro-Cuban dance teachers for three days of workshops and celebration at the annual Alafia of the Acosta Dance ...

Tapping a drum with your fingers produces a sound different ... It was Ortiz, a Cuban anthropologist and a pioneer in Afro-Cuban studies, who brought the African origins of Cuban music to the ...

Percussion sounds The Department of Dance, Music, and Theatre at Cal Poly Humboldt will present “Contemporary Music for Percussion” performed by the Cal Poly Humboldt Percussion Ensemble and ...

Mulatu Astatke struggled for decades before his name became associated worldwide with a musical genre and he was finally born ...

Paquito D’Rivera has been a major figure in the worlds of modern jazz, afro cuban jazz, big band jazz, world music ... Andy Narell’s “Kalinda,” and featured Victor Provost on steelpan drum. We were, ...

The pervasive sultry sounds and hypnotic syncopations of Latin-America’s artistic heritage have pulsed across the Americas’ ...

It’s Afro- Cuban jazz from someone who helped forge the mold ... The use of percussion certainly sets Latin Jazz apart from straight ahead jazz, but it is so much more than a simple novelty. Embedded ...

Explosive Salsa, Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban and Afro-Caribbean music from the classics to the latest. Hosted by Luis Medina.