Dancers under umbrellas, jackets, and trash bags were soaked by a steady rain at the last performance of the Arts and Ideas Festival on the Green. No one seemed to care about the weather, though, as ...

The Riverside Live! music series winds up its season in spicy fashion May 10 with a Latin dance party and music by Puerto Rico's hottest band, Plena Libre. The concert will be in the Mayo Civic Center ...

Puerto Rican musicians have long proved adept at mastering other people's musical traditions. In recent years, however, they have turned their attention to their own, and as a result there has been a ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The infectious beats of Puerto Rico’s own Plena Libre are coming to Schenectady ...

As part of the NPR series "Musicians in Their Own Words," we hear from Puerto Rican musician Gary Nunez. With his band, Plena Libre, Nunez is reviving and re-inventing the rhythmic Puerto Rican ...

To most of the world, the music of Puerto Rico is synonymous with salsa, the peppy, jazzed-up Afro-Caribbean music that surfaced in New York in the late '60s and sparked an enduring popular dance ...

OK, so it wasn't exactly a tropical night Saturday in Rochester, with that old northwest wind blowing through the streets. That was all the more reason to be inside Mayo Civic Center auditorium, where ...

At the launch of Chicago SummerDance, the city’s summer-long free dance and live music series, Tito Rodriguez will be offering lessons in the Afro-Puerto Rican styles of plena and bomba from 6 to 7 pm ...

Musician Gary Nunez and his band, Plena Libre, revive and re-invent the rhythmic Puerto Rican musical style known as plena. New Old Sound from Puerto Rico: Plena Libre As part of the NPR series ...