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, ...
As Aurelio Martinez knows well, music is much more than another commodity to be bought and sold. The Honduras-based troubadour with the stage name Aurelio understands its role in helping bring ...
The Garifuna are an ethnic minority of African-Amerindians living in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize. Their music, parranda, is rooted in the sacred practices of spirit-possession and ...
Biodiverse and celebrated snorkel and scuba sites draw adventurers to the Belize Barrier Reef, one of Central America’s conservation success stories. But there’s another impressive restoration ...
Drumming on the beach, moving in time with junkanu dancers and eating heaping plates of mashed plantain soaked in coconut stew – more than likely these aren’t the experiences you imagine while ...
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Punta rock still rolls
In 1987, a compilation of Central American Garifuna music, or punta rock, was recorded in Andy Palacio's Sunrise Recording Studio and released to great acclaim. It featured the unique sound created by ...
Singer-songwriter Aurelio Martinez is the leading voice of the Garifuna people - a community descended from escaped African slaves and Caribbean natives. As he releases his fourth album Darandi, he ...
Drumming on the beach, moving in time with junkanu dancers and eating heaping plates of mashed plantain soaked in coconut stew – more than likely these aren’t the experiences you imagine while ...
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