We were introduced to Cuba’s lively Afro-Cuban music scene at a concert for Cuban traditional music at the hotel, which featured two original members of the world famous Buena Vista Social Club. We ...

Ramon Ramos Alayo may be onto something here. And his Cuban dance party in the heart of the Mission this weekend perhaps signaled the beginning of a promising new venture. He created a program called ...

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 ...

Reporting from SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba — “Solo quiero conectarme la Wi-Fi.” That’s the hook from a new song by the Barcelona-based, Afro-Cuban singer and producer Kumar Sublevao-Beat. And throughout ...

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 ...

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 ...

What effect will Obama’s easing of trade and travel between the United States and Cuba have on the island’s most important artistic exports, music and dance? Plenty, no doubt, and soon. After the 1959 ...

HAVANA — “It’s been 51 years since the event you Americans call the Bay of Pigs, but now Playa Girón is a popular beach destination for foreigners,” the guide tells me. It is hard to imagine that the ...

Amid an energy crisis sparked by a near-total blockade on U.S. shipments, some Cubans keep dancing.

LONDON (AP) — Carlos Acosta, the Cuban-born ballet star, has danced “The Nutcracker” countless times in his glittering career. Now he’s giving the ballet a twist by putting the culture and music of ...