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The band’s upcoming release, “Cumbias Levantamuertos,” draws on the the members' musical and cultural roots, Austin’s ...
Given cumbia’s danceable nature, she says she always tries to create the atmosphere of a family party at shows. Having played the Hollywood Bowl in 2017, she is going into this weekend’s show ...
“Cumbia is one of the most listened to forms of music, it’s become a global sound,” said Grant C. Dull organizer of Cumbia Week in Los Angeles. The celebration of the high-energy, ...
Jackson Heights will come alive with Colombian culture in July as Festival Calle Colombia, sponsored by State Sen. Jessica ...
If there's one act that might've seemed unexpected at this year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, it's Los Mirlos, the iconic Peruvian group whose distinct blend of psychedelic cumbia ...
About 30 students joined La Casa Cumbiera, a monthly dance pop-up hosted by teaching artist Adri Tapia-Gomez, known as Adri ...
This week I get to flex a track from a record label based in Spain that specializes in archive material: Munster/VampiSoul. This time it's classic cumbia, gaitas, porro and paseitos from Colombia ...
after seven years of hosting "Noche de Cumbia" at Axelrad, the owners of Wonky Power are breaking-in the community bar's newest stage. Axelrad to host 'Noche de Cumbia' Festival.
Cumbia Heights is a loose group of 10 or so members, hailing from Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru and, in the United States, Texas and Louisiana. The name is a nod to Columbia Heights, ...
Queer Baile’s other monthly dance class, which focuses on bachata, follows a similar structure. Originating in the Dominican ...
Cumbia has an open code that allows for a lot of room for experimentation.” On one of their few (and rare) U.S. tours, Frente Cumbiero will make its first-ever stop in Houston on Sunday, May 25 .
Before waltzing into a Tejano nightclub—or into any big party in South Texas, for that matter—you should know how to dance cumbia. Originally a folk dance ...