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, ...

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; ...

Honduran singer, songwriter and politician who was a leading champion of Garifuna culture Aurelio Martínez, who has died aged 55 in a plane crash off Roatán island in Honduras, was a musician and ...

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.