With its red carpet and chandeliers, Raleigh Memorial Hall is not the first place you think of to go hear Afro-Cuban music. Despite that, and what many considered high ticket prices ($45 a pop), the ...

IBRAHIM Ferrer who has died in Havana aged 78, was the voice of the Buena Vista Social Club, the group of elderly Cuban musicians propelled to fame in the late Nineties by the world's rediscovery of ...

In 1996, the American guitarist and record producer Ry Cooder visited Cuba and became entranced by a group of local musicians, many of whom were already past retirement age. The resulting album of ...