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Ry Cooder

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Update: Buena Vista Social Club Returns to U.S., Cue Versailles Restaurant Protests

    The Buena Vista Social Club will play its first American shows in seven years this week, with appearances in Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago.​Like Silvio Rodriguez, the band's likely skipping South Florida for fear of protests from fringe exile groups. The legendary geezers are just the lates ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Legendary Cuban Band Septeto Nacional Back After 76 Years

    It's a measure of the new exile tolerance that a heralded band from Cuba is headed for Miami, and -- at least so far -- no one is talking about protests, pain or politics. ​The Septeto Nacional made its last U.S. appearance at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, where it won a Gold Medal by spreadin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    Afro-Cuban All Stars Announce Miami Date

    Even if you're neither Cuban nor into Cuban music, you've no doubt heard of the Buena Vista Social Club, originally a members club where musicians would meet in Cuba during the 40's, but better known for the rediscovery in the 90's, championed in large part by American guitarist/producer Ry Cood ... More >>

  • Music

    April 6, 2006

    Pérez Prado

    The Best of Pérez Prado — The Original Mambo #5 (Sony/Legacy)

  • Music

    December 15, 2005

    Various Artists

    Our New Orleans (Nonesuch)

  • Calendar

    April 22, 2004

    Healing Harmonies

    Musician has salve for every sorrow

  • Film

    February 5, 2004

    Feast of Film II

    The Miami International Film Festival, part two

  • Music

    January 22, 2004

    Super Band Supreme

    The outstanding return of Super Rail Band de Bamako

  • Calendar

    October 2, 2003

    This Week's Day by Day Picks

    The outstanding return of Super Rail Band de Bamako

  • News

    May 29, 2003

    Lost in the Amazon.com

    A thoroughly unscientific look at what your friends and neighbors read, watch, and hear -- or not

  • Film

    April 10, 2003

    Latin Film Fest

    Los Zafiros get another hearing, while youth gets lost in Buenos Aires and Barcelona

  • Music

    February 20, 2003

    Hot and Cold Ferrer

    The Buena Vista Social Club tradition continues, with mixed results

  • Music

    February 6, 2003

    Ry Cooder & Manuel Galbán

    Mambo Sinuendo "Perro Verde"

  • Music

    October 3, 2002

    The Buena Vista Pirates Club

    Senegalese old-timers Orchestra Baobab get better with age

  • Music

    November 15, 2001

    Magic City Moment

    Blues, son, dancehall, compas, and Maradona

  • Music

    September 6, 2001

    Cuban Flashback

    Cuban artists compete at the Latin Grammys like it's 1959

  • Music

    April 26, 2001

    Rotations

    Compay Segundo Las Flores de la Vida
    Nonesuch

  • Music

    April 12, 2001

    Old-Skool Cuba

    The Afro-Cuban All Stars finally come to South Florida

  • Music

    November 30, 2000

    David Alvarez y Juego de Manos

    Mundo Loco (Tumi Music)

  • Music

    November 23, 2000

    Various Artists

    In Griot Time -- String Music from Mali Sterns Africa

  • News

    September 21, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    From the issue of September 21, 2000

  • News

    September 7, 2000

    Out with the Geezers

    Englishman Rupert Mould takes Cuban music to new frontiers

  • Music

    February 3, 2000

    Afro-Blues Through a Blank Eye

    Les Blank doesn't want his MTV

  • News

    November 4, 1999

    Kulchur

    Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned

  • Music

    July 29, 1999

    Rotations

    Los Zafiros; Richard Buckner

  • Music

    July 15, 1999

    Rotations

    Los Zafiros; Richard Buckner

  • Calendar

    June 24, 1999

    Night & Day

    June 24 - 30, 1999

  • Music

    June 3, 1999
  • Music

    April 8, 1999

    Take it to the Bridge

    June 24 - 30, 1999

  • Music

    March 25, 1999

    Free Radio Miami

    June 24 - 30, 1999

  • Music

    January 21, 1999

    Home for the Holidays

    June 24 - 30, 1999

  • News

    September 17, 1998

    The Politics of Music

    Forget the protests, the visa hassles, even the bomb threat that marred MIDEM. In the end, Cuba's finest musicians rocked the house.

  • News

    August 20, 1998

    The New Miami Sound

    It's straight from contemporary Cuba and it has taken root in a most unlikely place: Little Havana

  • News

    May 28, 1998

    Isla de la Musica

    The biggest surprise at Havana's Cubadisco '98: A burgeoning retinue of Americans hoping to cash in

  • News

    April 9, 1998

    !Viva Los Zafiros!

    Miami businessman Hugo Cancio's musical saga of Cuba's greatest vocal group has taken the island by storm and is now headed here

  • Music

    March 26, 1998

    Salsa's Past as Prologue

    Miami businessman Hugo Cancio's musical saga of Cuba's greatest vocal group has taken the island by storm and is now headed here

  • Music

    January 29, 1998

    The Son Remains the Same

    Miami businessman Hugo Cancio's musical saga of Cuba's greatest vocal group has taken the island by storm and is now headed here

  • Music

    October 16, 1997

    Music

    Miami businessman Hugo Cancio's musical saga of Cuba's greatest vocal group has taken the island by storm and is now headed here

  • Music

    October 16, 1997

    A Man Who Loves His Son

    Miami businessman Hugo Cancio's musical saga of Cuba's greatest vocal group has taken the island by storm and is now headed here

  • News

    June 19, 1997

    Bring on the Cubans!

    The Castro government is marketing music, and the whole world is buying. Except Miami.

  • Culture

    December 12, 1996

    Super Mario

    The Castro government is marketing music, and the whole world is buying. Except Miami.

  • News

    November 16, 1995

    Nightclub Jitters

    The Castro government is marketing music, and the whole world is buying. Except Miami.

  • Music

    November 2, 1995

    Living Hiatt Off the Hog

    The Castro government is marketing music, and the whole world is buying. Except Miami.

  • Music

    March 23, 1995

    Rotations

    The Castro government is marketing music, and the whole world is buying. Except Miami.

  • Music

    December 15, 1993

    Getting on with John

    How come you never see Hiatt and Springsteen in the same photo?

  • News

    February 26, 1992

    Program Notes

    How come you never see Hiatt and Springsteen in the same photo?

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