HAVANA -- President Raul Castro's daughter led hundreds of Cuban gays in a street dance Saturday to draw attention to gay rights on the island. Participants formed a carnival-style conga line around ...

What: Vail Jazz joins Vail Symposium to present professor Michael Davison and members of Afro-Cuban band ¡Cubanismo! in a performance and demonstration of the fundamentals of Afro-Cuban jazz. Where: ...

Around 200 Cubans marched in Havana on Saturday to the rhythm of conga, a popular dance, protesting against homophobia and transphobia, and celebrating the legalization of same-sex marriage. The ...

In 1917, Ramon Santamaria Rodriquez was born into poverty in Havana, Cuba. Nicknamed “Mongo” (a tribal chief in Senegal), he began playing the conga drum at an early age and as a teen, Mongo ...

Havana, Cuba. March 30 (CubaNet) – You could say Alberto Mir came home to die, and the dance troupe he founded and represented for years gave him a suitable send off, playing and dancing behind his ...

For one more night, the papaya bar still beckons at the Conga Room in downtown L.A. The yellow sculptural design from Cuban American artist Jorge Pardo — meant to resemble the tropical fruit split ...

The Bay Area has been a hotbed for Cuban music for more than half a century, and despite the persistent cold war freeze on relations with the communist-ruled nation, the temperature here keeps rising.