Afro-Cuban Ensemble

  
                 
 

The Afro-Cuban Ensemble (Ethnomusicology 91/161Z, section 1) performs ceremonial songs in honor of the saints of Santeria as well as social music such as rumba and comparsa. Its performances, accompanied by bata and conga drums, are based on traditions originally from Matanzas, the area of Cuba that retains the richest cultural survivals from Africa.

 

 


Francisco Aguabella and students, 2006

 

  
                             
 
Francisco Aguabella, director 		 
Map of Cuba
         
   
          2006 concert       Hammer Museum concert, 2005        
                           
                           
 

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