Surprise is the one reaction you don’t anticipate from an Eliades Ochoa album. Admiration, yes. But you don’t expect the unexpected. If anything the master of the Cuban country son usually errs on the ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Local band Conjunto Philadelphia brings the music of pre-revolutionary Cuba to life, at venues across the area, including a standing gig at Bolo Restaurant in Rittenhouse every ...

Jul. 4—Team Havana loves playing Albuquerque. So much so, its band members hope to move here one day. "We wish to live in Albuquerque because the crowd there is incredible," said David Rodriguez, Team ...

HAVANA, Oct 21 (Reuters) - A small group of Cuban musicians, together with the top U.S. diplomat in Cuba, paid homage in Havana to salsa icon Celia Cruz, who died in 2003 but would have celebrated her ...

Ensemble Arts Philly presents the dynamic and legendary ensemble band, Afro-Cuban All Stars, at the Miller Theater on Oct. 19. The Afro-Cuban All Stars, led by Juan de Marcos, are known for their ...

New York's Latin music giant Joe Cuba died Sunday at age 78, after a long illness. As prolific as he was influential, Cuba was one of the main pioneers of the Latin soul movement in the 1960s, which ...

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban teenagers Fabio and Diego Abreu seem shy at first, but the moment they step on stage, they become confident, filling a concert hall in downtown Havana with a hypnotic form of ...

It’s hard to imagine, but Celia Cruz has been caught like a weary fly in a poisonous political web. Cruz, contemporary salsa’s most enduring singer, is a Cuban exile who has always studiously avoided ...