Every Sunday and on many holidays, the llamadas de tambores de candombe or candombe drum calls enliven the Sur, Palermo and Cordón districts in southern Montevideo, Uruguay, home to a population of ...

"Drumming was something that was performed by men, it was a space that was hard for us to conquer", says Julia Urruzola, drummer of the Uruguayan all-female drum troupe, Fermina Candombe. The Candombe ...

1 Seyfried, Zegler, Matarazzo, and More Set For OCTET Film Adaptation Teatro IATI presents a very unique concert with the very best of South American music, the Candombe Jazz Project (Afro Uruguayan ...

The Afro-Uruguayan rhythms, born among enslaved Africans and once banned, now draws thousands to public squares and carnival parades Like the blues in the US, samba in Brazil, rumba in Cuba and plena ...

Kirkbride Arts and History Weekend, painter Leanne Larson & Candombe drumming. See efforts by the town of Fergus Falls to share their history through the Kirkbride Arts and History weekend. Meet ...

Montevideo (AFP) – As a little boy, Cesar Pintos -- now 86 -- played "drums" with his friends in the streets of Montevideo's black-majority neighborhoods, beating tin cans with twigs to ancestral ...

The Candombe Jazz Sessions reflects Sabrina Lastman gift of storytelling. It does not matter if it is an improvised wordless tale, a poetic interpretation sung in Spanish or Portuguese, or her ...

The three different drums are chico, repique and piano. Each plays a unique role during the performance. Liu Xuan / China Daily First brought by slaves to Uruguay, Candombe is now a World Cultural ...

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