Every Monday night in Montevideo, hundreds of people gather around a table in a public square, drawn by the pulse of drums, ...

Music that crossed the Atlantic from Africa to South America with enslaved people more than two centuries ago arrived last week in Riley Frank's music classroom in the His middle school students ...

The show "Tango & Candombe" is already playing at the Thalia Spanish Theatre every Friday (8 pm), Saturday (3 pm & 8 pm), and Sunday (4 pm) and will keep doing it throughout the entire month of June.

Latin Grammy-nominated artist Julieta Rada continues to remind listeners everywhere why she is one of the most unique and innovative artists in Latin music. Today, she released her highly anticipated ...

CLEARLY, Hugo Medrano has a thing for authenticity. When the GALA Hispanic Theatre's artistic director set out to build a show around Uruguay's candombe music, he didn't stop at poring over academic ...

A vibrant Uruguayan music and dance tradition originating from African slaves known as candombe is coming to Java River in Montevideo with a live performance by Conjunto BANTU.