At age 10, Ricardo Lemvo was hooked on the blazing horn arrangements, conga drums and up-tempo sound of Johnny Pacheco and the Orchestra Aragon. It was 1967 in Kinshasa, Congo, and the intoxicating ...
Years, decades and centuries can go by, but Orquesta Aragón doesn’t stop. The 14-member Cuban band, founded in the city of Cienfuegos in 1939, and responsible for dance classics like “El Bodeguero” ...
In response to Curtis Black`s letter: On March 18, representatives of more than 20 Cuban organizations that represent a cross-section of 40,000 Cuban-Americans in the Chicago area organized an ad hoc ...
SAN MATEO — Tara Caughlan had never traveled outside the country before. But during one hazy, humid day just before lunchtime, she found herself sitting on the Great Wall of China with her flute.