For the third consecutive year, NPR teamed up with globalFEST in January 2023 for a thrilling online music festival we call Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST: three nights, nine bands, and a world of musical ...

For the third year, Tiny Desk concerts team up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival — Tiny Desk meets globalFEST. Hosted by Angélique Kidjo, the series echoes globalFEST's live ...

"It's such a joy to be here in New York City," says Ricardo Oropesa-Fernandez, manager for the Cuban folkloric band Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñeiro. "I feel that we are walking the same steps that ...

It's a stroke of genius, this incorporation of Cuban and Jewish music. Drummer Roberto Juan Rodriguez left Cuba at age nine and settled with his family in Miami, where he encountered exiles of ...

In 1927, Ignacio Pineiro formed a group to play Cuba's traditional son music, a genre germinated in the black communities of rural Cuba. Pineiro added a cornet player to add zest and appeal, and the ...

It’s a measure of the new exile tolerance that a heralded band from Cuba is headed for Miami, and — at least so far — no one is talking about protests, pain or politics. The Septeto Nacional made its ...

In the first week of November the temperature starts dipping below freezing in Kingston Ontario, so it was some relief to have a warm Caribbean breeze blow in from Cuba November 3/10 and plunk itself ...

The group preserves and pays homage to one of Cuba's most important musical forms, with a vitality demonstrating that the septeto tradition is... For the third consecutive year, NPR teamed up with ...