The singers and musicians of Umalali are all Garifuna, a Caribbean people whose story takes us to the soul of Central America. One side of the Garifuna bloodline can be traced back to the Arawaks of ...

Every now and then, somebody sets up a business to make records in a town or city where few others are seriously doing so: Sam Phillips, who started Sun Records in Memphis in 1952; Berry Gordy, who ...

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. Flushing Town Hall will present The Garifuna ...

Umalali ("Voice") is a Belize-based group assembled by producer and musician Ivan Duran to help revive the Garifuna culture of Central America. Duran has been a key figure in the revitalization of the ...

Several years ago, The Music Hall curatorial staff learned of the Garifuna — descendants of shipwrecked slaves who married Carib and Arawak Indians — who live primarily in small towns and villages on ...

Desiree Diego and the Garifuna Collective will be performing with Danny Michel at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival.photo supplied Interview with Garifuna Collectives Desiree Diego originally ...

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, ...

The UN has a category for endangered human cultures, called "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity." At the top of that list are the people known as the Garifuna: coastal ...

Umalali: The Garifuna Women’s Project will take place at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Chico State University’s Laxson Auditorium. Umalali blends the rich vocal textures of women from the Garifuna communities ...

One of the finest, least expected albums of the past year was Watina, in which the late and greatly missed Andy Palacio introduced global audiences to the gently rousing, rhythmic and soulful styles ...