SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Drummers beat the goatskin covers of rum barrels while a singer led a chorus in call and response. A dancer emerged from the crowd, tipping an imaginary hat to the lead drummer ...

Discover the music of Bomba! Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with the Woodbridge Main Library October 11 at 7PM as Kim Ruiz executive director of the Puerto Rican Association for Human Development ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Hundreds of years ago the music of bomba emerged from Puerto Rico's colonial sugar cane plantations. It's rhythmic beats and story-filled lyrics provided healing for the enslaved ...

"Bambulaé be it now,” (Bambulaé sea ya) someone called out from a window on a street in New Haven, Connecticut. To Kevin Díaz Rodríguez´s surprise, the director of Movimiento Cultural Afro-Continental ...

The group will be performing a traditional dance number called Bomba. The dance was used as an outlet of communication centuries ago for African ancestors on the island. Milteri Tucker, executive ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). The inhabitants of San Juan aren’t early risers. At 9am, the city’s streets are largely empty. In the Plaza Colón, there’s a cockerel ...

A dancer emerged from the crowd, tipping an imaginary hat to the lead drummer. It’s a gesture that says the bomba has begun. This playful exchange between dancers, singers and drummers is the rhythmic ...