A fuzz guitar cuts through a cumbia groove. A small organ holds a single note like a guide. This is the sound that rose from the Andes in the late 60s and 70s. In Lima and across Colombia, young bands ...

Gaitero groups, dancers and the general public parade to the cemetery in San Jacinto, Colombia, on Aug. 14, 2022. This is part of a special series, Cumbia Across Latin America, a visual report across ...

Micaela Prada has built her career on both artistry and discipline, combining the vision of a producer with the presence of a performer. A Peruvian actress and theatre-maker now based in London, she ...

Folklorica is a curious piece of theatre. It is part fairytale, part allegory, part hard-hitting political fable, with more than a hint of pantomime thrown in. Set in the final years of the nineteenth ...

Cuco turned Mexican Independence Day into a cumbia celebration Monday night at the Greek Theatre. The Chicano soul star lit up the sold-out Los Angeles venue in green, white, and red, as fans swayed ...

On July 28, North Miami was treated to a debut performance by Cumbiamba, an ambitious nine-piece local Cumbia band. The group performed at Four’s Fiestas Patrias event, celebrating Peru’s Independence ...

El Teatro de la Danza Guillermina Bravo se llenará de ritmo, color y tradición con el inicio de la Temporada de Danza Folklórica 2025. El Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), a ...

Peel back Colombian history a century or so, scratch around the coastal lowlands, and you’ll find a time and place before regional tropical-music genres had crystallized under the forces of Latin ...

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Ángel Pedraza, the unabashed and charismatic leader of Grupo Kual? and a legendary figure in the world of cumbia sonidero, passed away on Sunday, February 23, 2025. His son confirmed the news of his ...

In 2023, the Cal Poly Humboldt Dance Program held its first ever “Fiesta Folklórica” on campus in the Gist Hall Theatre. It was the first time the show, now known as the “Fiesta Folklórica” brought ...