The Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall is pleased to present rumba flamenco guitar master Jesse Cook on Friday, April 7 at 8:00 pm. This concert at the Performing Arts Center is part of the ...

When you look at Congolese music the question that comes into mind is whether it ever reached its full potential and whether it is a reflection of what Congo as a country has become. For a country ...

The palpitating sounds of rumba flamenco will resonate at the Rialto Theatre Friday night with Tucson's Tesoro and friends. While the electrifying music of Southern Spain is rare in Southern Arizona, ...

You may think you don’t know anything about Congolese music. But if you’ve ever tapped your foot to the irresistible beat of the rumba, you’ve experienced a national tradition. Rumba originated in ...

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Congolese rumba, sometimes called rumba Lingala or rumba Congolais, is likely to join khon, a Thai masked dance drama, khaen music of Laos, chapei dang veng of Cambodia, Cuban son and Dominican ...

Papa Wemba, a musician known around the world as the king of Congolese rumba, was pronounced dead on April 24 following a collapse on stage during a concert the night before in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

While there's nothing wrong with looking forward and looking for the means to improve things, doing so without paying attention to one's history can result in the creation of a cultural vacuum. Far ...

Rosalía nods to the gypsy party music of her native Barcelona on her Catalan track "Milionària". By Judy Cantor-Navas Rosalía sings “Milionària,” one part of her new double track, in her native ...

In 2008, Peruvian director Alan Brain took a job as a full-time filmmaker for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). While there, he worked on news shows ...