Bomba is a music and dance brought to Puerto Rico by West African slaves forced to work in sugar plantations. Singers and percussionists make the music, and a dancer improvises a musical ...

Loíza is the area of Puerto Rico where many of the Afro-Caribbean population live and have art studios open to the public where people can learn about their culture. Bomba is an ancestral dance ...

Folklife Festival continued Friday night at the Island Center on St. Croix with an evening of bomba, bamboula and African ...

The visualizer explains that the cultural practice of bomba (music and dance) emerged in communities of enslaved Africans in Puerto Rico and their descendants. About a quarter century after ...