On a typical Saturday afternoon in the Havana courtyard of El Palenque, drummers coax conga rumba rhythms into the air above the crowd. A thousand miles away, Sundays in Central Park also mean rumba.

Rumba Clave Blen Blen Blen is a song of praise to the musical genre of rumba in New York City. It reveals the vibrant Afro-Cuban culture of the city. In addition, the film unravels the African and ...

1. Clave In the beginning was the clave. In Spanish, code or key; in music notation, clef or signature. For black slaves and freedmen working the docks in late-17th-century Havana, claves were the ...

Born among black slaves on sugar plantations, Cuba's rumba has since become a national icon almost as renown as its cigars or amateur boxers and two years ago was designated by UNESCO as an intangible ...

Many of its arrangements incorporate the Cuban clave, that rhythmic pattern that has been the backbone of genres such as son, rumba, and salsa. It’s as if, unwittingly, young people are dancing on the ...

Kip Hanrahan has done it again. In his various musical projects, Hanrahan has repeatedly demonstrated an amazing talent at bringing together performers to make magic—without necessarily playing a note ...

Amid the growth of its Spanish-speaking population, Newark’s South Ward will host its annual Rumba Latina festival on Saturday, Sept. 27. The festival runs from 2 to 7 p.m. at the Clinton Avenue ...