CHICO — Cuban-born band Orquesta Akokan travels from New York to bring a mix of mambo and salsa to the West Coast this month. Performing at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. on June 21, this will be ...
Lehman Center for the Performing Arts is proud to announce the Spectacular 2024-2025 Season Opening Concert featuring THE MAMBO LEGENDS ORCHESTRA, LUCRECIA, XIOMARA LAUGART, & NELSON GONZALEZ. On ...
Cuban bassist and composer Israel "Cachao" Lopez, who is credited with pioneering the mambo style of music, died Saturday. He was 89. Known simply as Cachao, the Grammy-winning musician had fallen ill ...
When Amy Bernabeo and her friends are in the mood for authentic Cuban mambo, mojitos and sandwiches, they head on over to Corazon de Cuba, a restaurant two blocks from Long Beach's Boardwalk. Bernabeo ...
Producer Jacob Plasse teamed up with the beloved mambo singer Jose “Pepito” Gomez and an all-star group of Cuban jazz players last year. Their aim was to make a mambo record that could sit alongside ...
Cuban bassist and composer Israel "Cachao" Lopez, who is credited with pioneering the mambo style of music, died Saturday. He was 89. Known simply as Cachao, the Grammy-winning musician had fallen ill ...
FEET ON EXHIBITION: The original ‘Mambo King,’ Pedro Aguilar, also known as Cuban Pete, danced with partner Barbara Craddock as artist Erich Padilla painted their moves on canvas at the Byron-Carlyle ...
Pacific Mambo Orchestra, with Georgia trombonist Jamie Dubberly, plays the Rialto on Feb. 19. On Monday, Oct. 5, 2010, in a San Francisco Bay Area club, Latin big band Pacific Mambo Orchestra played ...
MIAMI – Grammy-winning mambo pioneer Israel (Cachao) Lopez died Saturday at 89. Known simply as Cachao, the Cuban-born bassist and composer fell ill in the past week and died surrounded by family ...