CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's Riis Park will look and sound a lot more like Havana, Cuba the weekend of August 14-16, 2015 when the 6th annual Festival Cubano brings together the best in Cuban culture, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A celebration of Cuban culture returns to Chicago August 11-13, 2017 at Riis Park. The 8th Annual Festival Cubano features a full schedule of music, dancing, boxing demonstrations, ...

The members of Habaneros are having a ball — literally, in one joyful instance — in California. The five chamber musicians from Havana, Cuba, played for the first time in this state during last ...

Latin jazz bandleader and congero Poncho Sanchez spent lots of time as a kid watching his older sisters dance the mambo and cha-cha-cha to their Cal Tjader, Tito Puente and Machito records. While they ...

The time was right to revisit the Buena Vista Social Club. The blockbuster 1997 album and 1999 documentary, chronicling the recording sessions of an ad-hoc group of remarkable Cuban musicians, set off ...

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Now, about to release their self-financed second album, ¡Ay Caramba!, the band have just provided a rude-boy awakening to the Jazz/World Stage at Glastonbury, and are about to head off deep into the ...

When you Google "Cuban Son Music," Wikipedia is quick to offer you an answer, defining the genre as: "The Son cubano is a style of music and dance that originated in Cuba and gained worldwide ...

HABANA SAX at the Top o’ the Senator (249 Victoria) May 7-12 at 9:30 pm. $25-$30. 416-364-7517. people’s perceptions of cubanmusic have been deeply influenced by Wim Wenders’s Buena Vista Social Club ...