Rumba Instruments

Is what I heard a fellow rumbero exclaim a month back at the Dio De Los Muertes rumba we have every year hear in San Francisco's own M...

   Rumba has it's origins in Cuba, of that there can be no doubt. It may have had influences from Africa and Spain, and from such divers...

I recently acquired copies of two monumental books addressing clave and rumba. The first two books in the Unlocking Clave series: The Clav...

   I was playing a guaguanco with a friend the other day, just him improvising on a quinto and tres dos, with me holding it down on the sal...

  Well I finally got some pictures of the bajo cajon I built a few days ago. A very fun project. I ended up going with the "Clave y Gua...

Well it looks as if the indomitable Barry Cox has done it again. Barry has begun a new blog an afrocuban discography , an online catalog of...

I'm gearing up to be making a Cuban style bajo cajon soon, maybe even this week, or possibly next. I've been fortunate to have corr...

A friend of mine, David Crowder, recently attended the Humboldt State University  Explorations in Afro-Cuban Dance & Drum workshop. ...

The skin or head on a conga drum is a very important part of the instrument. The type of skin and it's thickness paired with the shell...

Check out the latest from Isla Percussions . Bringing back the mahogany conga for the most authentic sound. They must sound phenomenal. I k...