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The music of "currulao" is very popular in Colombia's South Pacific coast. Currulao music is featured in the Petronio Alvarez Music Festival. Currulao is not only festive music to dance, but it can carry religious, political and social…

Eddie Palmieri is one of our Latin music flag bearers from the days of the Palladium and you can listen to his recent live concert free at NPR. If you are an Eddie Palmieri fan, you know that he had a 7 year recording break since his…

This past April Latin music lost one of its iconic artist when Cuban percussionist Armando Peraza left us. An article published on May 1 by NPR's Felix Contreras ("Remembering Armando Peraza, An Afro Cuban Percussion Giant") is a nice…

How Arturo O'Farrill was able to bring in most of this band into NPR's Tiny Desk concert is beyond me. I'm glad he did because Arturo and his band were able to deliver some good Latin Jazz music in this miniature (and I mean...miniature)…