A dancer emerged from the crowd, tipping an imaginary hat to the lead drummer. It’s a gesture that says the bomba has begun. This playful exchange between dancers, singers and drummers is the rhythmic ...
Photos by Deborah Guelfi Jul 21, 2025 Jul 21, 2025 LAWRENCE — The heat and humidity weren’t enough to discourage a large crowd from turning out Sunday afternoon for the third annual Bomba y Plena ...
Rauw Alejandro pays tribute to the folklore and rhythm of his native Puerto Rico in a cinematic video for “Besito en la Frente.” On Monday, he teamed up with Apple to release an iPhone-shot short film ...
Bomba is still a music of rebellion, used to criticise the government or call for independence from the US, of which Puerto Rico has been an unincorporated territory since 1898. But it’s become a ...
“Puerto Rico has a mix of races, and we like to defend our African roots,” said Iván “E-van” Ortiz Amaro, the director of Bomba con Conciencia. If Bad Bunny’s highly anticipated Super Bowl halftime ...
Marisol sat under a tent frying up some bacalaitos and pastelillos for her family to enjoy as a large Puerto Rican flag waved in the wind. She was one of hundreds of attendees at New Haven’s ninth ...
Marvette Perez (1961-2013), Curator of Latino History at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, discusses the how a Puerto Rican bomba drum is constructed. This bomba drum is part of the ...
"Bambulaé be it now,” (Bambulaé sea ya) someone called out from a window on a street in New Haven, Connecticut. To Kevin Díaz Rodríguez´s surprise, the director of Movimiento Cultural Afro-Continental ...
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