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| Cuba | Conjunto Folklorico Nacional: weekly in Cuba. | Septeto Nacional: US, Caribbean, 10/09-12/09 | ||
| based | Muñequitos de Matanzas: Germany, 4/2010. World tour. | Charanga Habanera: 12/2009, Miami; 5/2010, US on 45 day tour | ||
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| US | Los Hombres Calientes: US, continuous | Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca: US | ||
| based | Mambo Queens: Portland, 1st Sunday / month |
Osmany Paredes: US, Chile, Mexico - continuous |
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| Omar Sosa: US, Europe, Japan, continuous | ||||
| Europe | Cubanos en la Red: Spain, Europe, continuous | Guillermo Davis 'el iyawo' : UK, continuous | ||
| based | Osvaldo Chacon y su Timba: London, continuous | Groupe Aconcha Marina, France | ||
| London Lukumi Choir | ||||
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| Africa | Check out Radio Abeokuta, scroll down for the Yoruba Cuban/Brazilian channel | |||
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| Live Music in Cuba |  |
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| See Canal
Cubano's Actuaciones Musicales
and EGREM's www.egrem.com.cu/egrem/progcmusica.asp These site have detailed, up to date listings. Be patient, the sites may be down, but when they are up, you are in a gold mine! For other schedules, see Links. |
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| Groups
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Musicians from the
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Musicians
& Dancers Artists based in these locations |
| Check out the samples <=====> on many artists' pages! |
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"Music is the weapon of the future" - Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Yoruba musician, Nigeria
| Matanzas | Pedro "Regalao" Aballi Torriente: master percussionist, teacher, AfroCuba de Matanzas | Daniel Alfonso: master percussionist, teacher |
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Luis Cancino Morales, dancer, singer, percussionist |
Teresita Dome Pérez: dancer, singer | |
| Julito Fantoma: master percussionist, teacher | Reynaldo "Rey" Gonzalez Fernandez: dancer, choreographer | |
| Lilian Oviedo Aldama: dancer, singer, percussionist | Danilito Perez, dancer, choreographer | |
| Dolores Perez, singer | Pedro "Pello" Tapanez: master percussionist | |
| Esteban "Chacha" Vega Bacallao, legendary percussionist, teacher | ||
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| Havana | Alfonso Aldama, percussionist | Miguel Bernal Nodal: singer, percussionist, Raices Profundas |
| Juan De Dios: dancer, Raices Profundas | Johannes Garcia, choreographer | |
| Juan Garcia, choreographer, ethnographer | Celina Gonzalez, folklorico, popular | |
| Ruben Gonzalez: son | Pablo Herrera, hip-hop & rap | |
| Leosbel "Hanny" Jimenez Licea, singer | Regino Jiménez, percussionist | |
| Pablo Milanes, composer | Maria Elena Mendiola, symphony director | |
| Haila Mompie, singer | Daisy Ortega, singer | |
| Osdalgia, singer | Lillia "Bellita" Piño, singer, musicologist | |
| Teresa Pollero: singer | Omara Portuondo, singer | |
| Adriano Rodriguez, singer | Estanislao Sureda Hernandez (Laito), singer | |
| Chucho Valdés: jazz pianist | Orlando "Maraca" Valle: flautist | |
| Moises Valle "YUMURI", singer | ||
| Oriente | Idalberto Bandera: dancer, percussionist | Danis Perez Prades: dancer |
| Eliades Ochoa | ||
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| United | Francisco Aguabella, percussionist: LA | Carlos Aldama, percussionist: Oakland |
| States | Albita, singer | Xiomara Alfaro, singer |
| Jóse Francisco Barroso, dancer: Oakland | Susana Arenas Pedroso, dancer | |
| Emilio Barreto, singer: New York | Juan Carlos Blanco Riera, dancer |
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| Roberto Borrell, musician: San Francisco |
'Roman' Díaz, percussionist, NY |
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| Elena Garcia, dancer: Miami | Lázaro Galarraga, percussionist, Los Angeles | |
| Felipe Garcia Villamil, percussionist: LA & Matanzas | Angel Guerrero, Miami | |
| Humberto "Nengue" Hernandez: LA | ||
| Felix 'Pupy' Insua, dancer, NY | Harold Muñiz, percussionist: Bay Area, CA | |
| "Sandy" Garcia Perez: percussionist, Matanzas & San Francisco | Tony Perez, pianist: Boston, MA | |
| Nurudafina Pili Abena, percussionist: Boston, MA | Orlando "Puntilla" Rio, percussionist: New Jersey | |
| Osmany Paredes: jazz pianist, NY | Omar Sosa, HipHopJazz composer: Northern California | |
| Ned Sublette: singer, Cowboy Rumba, NY | Carol Steele, percussionist: Bay Area | |
| Africa | Ricardo Lemvo, singer: the Congo and LA | |
| Europe | Martha Galarraga, akpwon, singer: France | Hanny Jimenez, singer: UK |
- musicians from the past| Havana | Miguel "Anga" Diaz, percussionist | Elena Burke, 'feelings' singer, 1928-2002 |
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| Celia Cruz | Tata Güines, 1931-2008 | |
| Rita Montaner, 1900-1958 | ||
| Benny Moré, singer | Amelia Pedroso, percussionist, singer | |
| Chano Pozo, percussionist with Dizzy Gillespie | Pancho Quinto, percussionist | |
| Arsenio Rodriguez: singer, son innovator | Lazaro Ros: akpwon, singer | |
| Compay Segundo, singer | Merceditas Valdes, singer | |
| Matanzas | Enrique "Papi" Mesa: percussionist, Matanzas - 1997 | Radames: musician, Matanzas - 1998 |
| Rogelio Scull, percussionist, Matanzas | Gregorio "Goyito" Diaz: percussionist, Matanzas | |
| Oriente | Guadalupe "La Lupe" Yoli: singer | |
| US | Merida Castillo | Miguel 'Angá' Diaz |
| Long John Oliva | Orlando "Puntilla" Ríos, 1947-2008 |
| Havana | Artex | Egrem |
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| Matanzas | Kabiosile | |
| United States |
Academy of Cuban Folklore & Dance, Seattle |
Bembe Records [on-line catalog] |
| Luz Productions | Mambo Express | |
| Qbadisc [on-line catalog], NY | Smithsonian Folkways | |
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Europe |
Alvarez Music |
| Havana | Pablo Herrera: hip-hop & rap producer/DJ/keyboardist/poet | Osmel Francis Turner, Cubanos en la Red |
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| United States | International Music Network | |
| Novater Artists |
| Estudios Abdala: http://www.abdala.cubaweb.cu |
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Europe |
Alvarez Music |
| Cuba | Radio Havana Cuba | Radio Gladys Palmera, Barcelona |
| US | KXLU, Los Angeles: Alma del Barrio | Cuban Music Samples |
Bill Martinez--Attorney / Producer / Manager: Bill has arranged visas for and supported many musical events.
esquinarumbera.blogspot.com - nice videos!
Dance to the Orishas Video, ArchivoCubano, 6/06
www.afropop.org/radio/cuba_channel.php
Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music 1925-1960
Cristobal Diaz-Ayala
gislab.fiu.edu/smc/discography.html
Cuban Music Dot Com - online store
| Orishas
in Music - http://members.aol.com/ilebaba/adeleke/music.html An extensive discography of Afro-Latin Orisha recordings. Among the artists listed are Francisco Aguabella, Milton Cardona, Conjunto Cespedes, Celia Cruz, and Lázaro Ros. |
| Explorations
in Afro-Cuban Dance and Drum - http://www.humboldt.edu/~extended/afrocuban/ Humboldt State University Office of Extended Education presents the 6th annual Explorations in Afro-Cuban Dance and Drum workshop to celebrate the folkloric music, songs, and dances of the Afro-Cuban people. |
| Candombe - http://www.candombe.com/ Information on this style of Afro-Uruguayan rhythm, featuring origins, sounds, images and musicians. Site available in Italian, English, Spanish and Portuguese. |
| Cuban
Music 101 - http://www.mamborama.com/cuba_music.html A brief description of Cuban music forms, with featured artists and RealAudio samples, courtesy of Mamborama.com. |
| Bongo
Drums - http://www.rhythmweb.com/bongo/history.htm A brief history of bongo drumming linked to the early Cuban music styles of Changüi and Son. |
| Abakua - http://www.cse.ogi.edu/Drum/groove/abakua.html An explanation of drum patterns from the rhythms of a secret men's society in Cuba, brought there during the slave trade from the Calabar region of West Africa. |
| Afrolatina - Music
Reviews - http://www.afrolatina.com/musrev.htm Information about Afro-Latin music, DJs, live bands, radio shows, newsletters, reviews, and track listings. |
| Afro-Cuban
Essentials - http://www.thedrumclub.com/DRUMSET/essentialstyles/afrocuban/pt1clave.HTM A page dedicated to the history of the clave, with sections on both son, and rhumba clave and music sheets. |
| Clave
Concepts: Afro Cuban Rhythms - http://www.netspace.net.au/~pertout/lclaveac.htm An explanation of the essential role of clave in Afro-Cuban music. |
| Afro-Cuban
folkloric music other than bata - http://www.batadrums.com/background/afro-cuban.htm Information on Afro-Cuban drumming styles and rhythms including Rumba, Abaqua, Arara, Bantu and Bembe. This site also includes an extensive list of links to other sites and a book list. |
| Wemba Means Magic - http://www.wemba-music.org Collective of musicians, storytellers, and dancers who are priests and adherents of African Traditional Diasporic Religions; dedicated to sharing the Afro-Latin music, dance, and traditions of Lucumi Orisha and Palo Mayombe. |
| Afro-Latin - http://www.jazzhistory.f2s.com/history/afro.html An historical sketch of Afro-Latin music. |
| Three Guys from Miami - http://icuban.com/music Online store specializing in Afro-Cuban music, with sound samples. |
| Timba - New
Styles in Afro-Cuban Popular Music - http://www.chucksilverman.com/timbapaper.html This paper by drummer Chuck Silverman, sheds some light on Timba, and on the possible outcomes of the music industrys effects on Cuban music and society. |
| Ile Ayan: The Sacred
Power of Drum Sounds - http://law.upenn.edu/~ibnishma/ilu.html This website covers the African and Afro-Cuban tradition of sacred drum playing, the tumbadora, has a list of bata plyers, timbaleros, and bongoseros and a glossary of terms. |
| RumbaRama - http://dmreed.com/RumbaRama.htm West Coast percussionist Dennis Califa Reed has an excellent selection of sound samples, and a discography of Afro-Cuban, and Afro-Latin music, including links to other Afro-Latin music sites. |
| Afro Cuban Sound - http://www.nowopen.com/afrocuban/music.htm This site has historical, and biographical information on Afro-Cuban music and cd sales. |
| Cuba Music. - http://members.aol.com/al31/cuba_music.html With strong roots in West African Yoruba religious music, Cuba's highly syncopated, potent, percussion-rich music has spawned much of what is today's salsa and Latin jazz and greatly influenced musics all over the world. This site has both reviews and sound samples from many important recordings. |
| The Afro-Latin
Groove: ¡Sabroso! - http://rhinorecords.com/Features/75209p.html Rhino records review and liner notes for a compilation cd of Afro Latin sounds featuring Willie Bobo, Machito, and Mongo Santamaria, among others. |
| Bahia's
Afro-Latin Beat - http://www.latimes.com/travel/destinations/20000730/t000071242.html Washington Post article by Gary Lee on the afro-latin music scene in Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. |
| Cuban Bata
Discography - http://huizen.dds.nl/~stepcla/music/batadisc.txt Information on recordings with Cuban bata drums, compiled by Stephan Claassen, October 2000. |
| Décima
and Rumba: Iberian formalism in the heart of Afro-Cuban song - http://ntama.uni-mainz.de/~ntama/articles/pasmanick/ Article by Philip Pasmanick analyzing the use of the poetic form of decima in Afro-Cuban music. |
| The
Congueros - http://www.emporia.edu/physics/faculty/mypeople.htm A fans list of favorite congueros, most of whom are renowned Afro-Latin percussionists, includes quotes from Rebeca Mauleón's list of congueros. |
| Google's AfroLatin directory Arts > Music > Styles > World > Latin > Afro-Latin |
Encyclopedic Discography of Cuban Music
latinpop.fiu.edu/discography.html
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