With its twanging and wailing electric guitars, throbbing hand drums and blend of African, Caribbean and Latin influences, the paranda music of the Garifuna people is compelling and unique. Soulful, ...

Andy Palacio, an iconic figure and major force behind the worldwide awareness of Garifuna arts and culture, spoke to the North Shore News a few months before he died unexpectedly of a stroke in ...

The celebration of Garifuna Heritage Month at Flushing Town Hall in Queens, on March 16 at 7 p.m., is a multilayered event, featuring performers and preservers of the African-Caribbean-rooted culture.

Composer and guitarist Aurelio Martinez is one of the leading singers of Garifuna music from Central America. Martinez was added to globalFEST at the last minute after a Cuban group had visa trouble; ...

Aurelio Martinez grew up in Plaplaya, a small coastal village in eastern Honduras. Because of its isolation, it has stayed a stronghold for the customs and culture of the Garifuna people. Aurelio, who ...

This could be the year that Garifuna music—created by the descendants of indigenous Caribbeans and West African slaves who were shipwrecked on the island of Saint Vincent 350 years ago—takes off. It ...

Three Garifuna girls pose for the camera as an unseen adult yells at them to get back inside. As his demands grow louder their smiles get wider. Black Carib skin offsets pearly white teeth and ...