For the Cuban timba group Tiempo Libre, a 2002 gig at Ravinia provided some needed encouragement. But the importance of the gig for the young musicians really hit home when bandleader Jorge Gomez met ...
There was history in the air Tuesday night when one of the giants of Cuban music, Cesar “Pupy” Pedroso, led his powerhouse band Los que Son Son into Boston for the first time. Besides bringing a ...
In Cuba, the seven young men studied at the National School of Arts where music was their passion. They always knew that someday they would continue the tradition of their musical roots even as they ...
When the kids in Havana want to go out dancing, it isn’t the throwback tunes of the Buena Vista Social Club pensioners that get the floor shaking. Besides the rapidly burgeoning Cuban hiphop scene, ...