Afro-Peruvian jazz is part and parcel of Latin jazz, a mixture of traditional Afro-Peruvian rhythms and inclination to improvise, with the New York jazz scene of the 1980s and beyond. Guitarist ...

The rhythmic beats of the cajon, voices of Northwestern’s Latin Music Ensemble, stomping of feet and laughter of dancers filled Harris Hall on Wednesday evening as members of the NU community gathered ...

When the Peruvian trumpeter Gabriel Alegria brings his Afro-Peruvian Sextet to City Park Friday evening at 7 as part of the Berks Arts Council Bandshell Concert Series, the audience will hear a fusion ...

As poets, musicians, dancers, choreographers, and historians, Victoria and Nicomedes Santa Cruz led the resurgence of Afro-Peruvian arts in the 1960s. Their efforts to restage and reconstruct ...

Afro-Peruvian Jazz Music is the life’s work of trumpeter and composer Gabriel Alegría. For the past 15 years, he has led a cross-cultural ensemble called the Afro-Peruvian Sextet that has slowly (but ...

Susana Baca can't stop dancing. When she sings, she sways, her eyes closed, a smile on her lips, her body rocking in slow, loose- limbed movement as effortless as wind whispering through trees. Even ...

Afro-Peruvian music was born of slavery and, over the centuries, has been on the verge of slipping into obscurity on many occasions — overlooked by record labels, shrugged off as marginal. Yet it has ...

A few weeks before she died in 1983, the great Peruvian singer and composer Chabuca Granda sent a note to Susana Baca, whom she'd befriended and mentored when Baca was a fledgling singer from a poor ...

Reporting from Santa Barbara, Peru — In this village that still bears the name of the old Santa Barbara sugar plantation, Susana Baca is trudging through a field of sweet potatoes. Not 48 hours ...

GALA Hispanic Theatre will be holding a workshop and audition for local union and non-union actors for an upcoming production of Kumanana! An Afro-Peruvian Musical Revue, an original musical revue ...