This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities ...

In his column this week, Jeff Weiss talks with renowned conga player Poncho Sanchez about the unlikely gringo who put him on. Today we've got another Sanchez story about an even stranger encounter — ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Many Washingtonians danced to rhythms played on this Haitian conga drum. Hide stretched taut across the drum forms its ...

It was 1967 and, according to Raul Rekow, "everyone in the Bay area of San Francisco was buying a conga and in any park you had 20 or 30 conga players, nobody really knowing how to play. We all would ...

Music is a hobby for Mark Riordan of Naperville, but a "very, very serious hobby." When he scopes out a band, he takes notes on the songs its members play. When he plays a gig, he arrives prepared ...

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Cándido Camero, the legendary Cuban conguero who pioneered the three-conga style and helped usher in a generation of Latin jazz, died peacefully at home in New York Saturday morning (November 7), NPR ...

Audio of a traveler calling 911 from the luggage compartment of a moving bus has emerged, adding sound to an already odd story. Connecticut State Police released a recording of the passenger’s call ...