An acoustic folk music developed by his enslaved ancestors along Colombia's Pacific coast helped to keep John Jairo Cortez on the straight and narrow. While growing up in the crime-ridden town of ...

An explosion of Colombian culture in the form of music, song and stylized folk dance burst forth onto UB's Center for the Arts' Mainstage Theatre Tuesday night in Ballet Folklorico De Antioquia, ...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian folk music legend Rafael Escalona, whose songs derived from life in his rural province have inspired modern-day singers, died on Wednesday of heart complications in a ...

STAMFORD — The Roxbury Arts Group will present a concert of Colombian folk music with Fabián Gallón and Diego Bahamón Serrato at Headwaters Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 12. According to a ...

From Santa Marta, he sent this version of "Romance de flor." ...

Martin Selasco believes the masks he and his bandmates wear in the Seattle-based electronic project Terror/Cactus have transformative power, helping everyone involved lose themselves in the music and ...

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Bullerengue, the percussive, female-led folk tradition developed in Black Caribbean communities, was passed down to the legendary Petrona Martinez like a sacred family heirloom. Growing up in San ...

One expects a Disney animated film to have great music. But when the setting is outside the United States, it’s especially crucial that the musical backdrop be true to the locale. Composer Germaine ...

An acoustic folk music developed by his enslaved ancestors along Colombia's Pacific coast helped to keep John Jairo Cortez on the straight and narrow. While growing up in the crime-ridden town of ...