At the very beginning of the evening on the New Haven Green on Friday night, percussionist Nino Ciampa asked a fundamental question: what is salsa? “Salsa is flavor and spice,” he said. “Salsa is ...

Kids and conga were right on beat Wednesday in Los Angeles. The Conga Kids spring Dance Championship moved its way through downtown’s Microsoft Square, where Conga Kids danced away using their ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- At Dr. Owen Knox Elementary in Los Angeles, salsa is in full swing with the "Conga Kids" program. "You learn a lot of new dances and you get a lot of exercise," said fifth-grader ...

8:49 a.m. March 29, 2024: A previous version of this story said that singer-songwriter Blessd performed at the event. He did not. The article also said that the Conga Kids program has served 50,000 ...

Brad Gluckstein, center rear, with “So You Think You Can Dance” competitors Comfort Fedoke and Paul Karmiryan to his left, poses last fall during the Conga Kids competition at Esteban Torres High ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jimmy Smits, left, Brad Gluckstein and Paul Rodriguez in the Conga Room, which will close Wednesday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles) ...

Ray Barretto, the towering Puerto Rican percussionist who straddled the occasionally conflicting worlds of salsa and Latin jazz during a career that spanned more than half a century, died Friday. He ...