Tango music may have its origins in African slave drummers from Uruguay. April 12, 2013— -- If you think it's difficult to drink water while walking, or text while walking, or do anything except ...

“Candombe” from the African term “ka-ndombe” in the Kimbundu (Bantú- Angolan) language, means dance with drums, and is the most important form of Afro-Uruguayan folk music. Candombe is to Uruguayans ...

Drummers participating in Montevideo's "Llamadas" parade, one of the events that make up Uruguay's carnival -- the world's longest -- on February 10, 2022 - Copyright ...

Tatita Márquez is the lonely young king of Afro-Uruguayan candombe, the southernmost Afro-Latin rhythm in the world. It is a syncopated rhythm played with three drums: the piano (the bass drum, which ...

CLEARLY, Hugo Medrano has a thing for authenticity. When the GALA Hispanic Theatre's artistic director set out to build a show around Uruguay's candombe music, he didn't stop at poring over academic ...

The show "Tango & Candombe" is already playing at the Thalia Spanish Theatre every Friday (8 pm), Saturday (3 pm & 8 pm), and Sunday (4 pm) and will keep doing it throughout the entire month of June.