Get ready, Tijuana! This year’s Independence Day festivities will be filled with rhythm and joy as Margarita “The Cumbia Goddess” takes the stage. The grand celebration will be held on Monday, ...

Once the soundtrack of the working class, cumbia's simple, yet contagious, rhythm absorbed local styles, morphed, and reinvented itself. It has traveled underground through the veins of Latin America ...

When I heard someone on NPR say cumbia was “the musical backbone of Latin America,” I almost crashed my car into a light post. “You wish!” I thought. Then, after veering out of trouble and cooling off ...

Bill Holmanis widely renowned as one of the best arrangers in jazz, and this is a great opportunity to catch his big band in a concert setting. Hearing a big band live is a thrilling and unique ...

One of the most listened-to genres in the Americas, photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia in Colombia,... Once the soundtrack of the working class, cumbia's ...