Casineros: D.C. dance + Cuban flair
Every Thursday at 8 p.m. sharp, Amanda Gill presses play on an old stereo in the center of a classroom...
Category: Afro-Latino Culture
Early Days: Growing up in D.C.’s “Latin American village”
An Interview with Carmen Torruella Quander Growing up in Washington’s tiny and tight-knit Hispanic community in the 1950s, Carmen Torruella...
M.A.K.U Soundsystem: “fiesta para el que sea, parranda en la calle”
El grupo colombiano M.A.K.U Soundsystem, que se presentó el pasado miércoles en Tropicalia, toma su nombre de los indígenas Nukak Maku,...
Folklife Spotlight: Colombian town keeps 400-year-old traditions alive
Kumo, ¿Kusa a tá? It’s a familiar phrase spoken every day in the village of Palenque de San Basilio, a...
Folklife Festival focuses on endangered languages + cultures
Performers from Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, and Central America bring Latin America’s cultural diversity to Washington at this year’s Smithsonian...