Just when you think you know Cuban music, along comes the Creole Choir of Cuba. This group sprang from the ashes of Grupo Vocal Desandann, a small vocal outfit created in the late 1990s to celebrate ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Maybe that’s because CCC’s singers gravitated toward the island’s Creole culture, as ...

For the past ten years, a courtyard in Little Haiti has served as a steady stage where Haitian music and community life meet.

For Leyla McCalla's 17th birthday, her father gave her a book of Langston Hughes' poetry. McCalla, a multi-instrumentalist and classically trained cellist, bought anthologies of his work and read any ...

Grammy-winning gospel singer, Kirk Franklin, is the latest celebrity to step up to the plate to lend a helping hand to the earthquake victims in Haiti. Franklin took the lead for a special performance ...