Both Puerto Rican and Garifuna people came together Saturday to celebrate their holiday season traditions during the fourth annual "Parranda con Paranda." For Garifuna people, paranda is a style of ...

One of the most extraordinary and passionate Garifuna artists of his generation, Aurelio Martinez follows in the footsteps of the legendary Parranderos of the Caribbean coast of Central America to ...

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 ...

READING – In 2001, UNESCO proclaimed the language, dance and music of the Garifuna people of Nicaragua, Honduras and Belize a “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.” This ...

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, ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Singer-songwriter, guitarist, percussionist, ...

Celebrities die every day and pop culture quickly moves on. But for the Garifuna people, descendants of shipwrecked slaves whose culture extends through Belize, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua, ...