Happy all day/week to all my Cumbia Lovers. Before making the main announcement about our dance classes, I want to mention something REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT. As we know, from the beginning of this ...

Rise and Shine is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and ...

This is the final entry in Cinco to Celebrate, a series highlighting five Mexican businesses in New York City that are worth your time and money this Cinco de Mayo—and beyond. Here's more about the ...

On Friday, April 13th, history was made in Indio, California. Los Ángeles Azules, a traditional Mexican cumbia band, was slated to perform at Coachella Music Festival and the excitement was VERY REAL.

Cumbia is often something you hear before you know its name. It arrives early, at family parties, backyard gatherings, long afternoons that stretch into the night, folded into the background of daily ...

The roots of hot latin dance and cumbia music are days of slavery in the late 17th century. The name is derived from the African word cumbe, which means dance. Cumbia was brought Colombia around the ...

If you’ve not heard of cumbia, there’s never been a better time to get in-the-know. One of Colombia’s finest cultural exports, it’s a style of music and dance that is so irresistibly grooved that it ...

Whether you're in a convenience store in Ushuaia, the southernmost tip of Argentina, Mexico City or East L.A., you're likely to hear cumbia blaring from a stereo. In Latin America, no musical style ...