PUNTA GORDA, Roatán – A decade after the first cruise ships approached this scenic Caribbean coastline, bringing the promise of a new tourism economy to an island that was still using a partial barter ...

The day long festival featured art workshops, children’s story time, Garifuna drumming, and face-painting. The festival also featured Garifuna craft vendors, mouthwatering food and drinks. Arriving ...

Garifuna music is based on traditional drums (called primero and segunda) and specific rhythms such as the sacred dugu, punta and gunjei as well as the Latin paranda.

His Punta rock band, Black Fever, had a hectic tour schedule, and their music–featuring the drum-based beat traditional in Garifuna culture–was on most radio stations’ play lists. When he first ...

“Everybody wants to be cool, especially young people,” says Andy Palacio, 45, the moving force behind the Garifuna Collective, a band that’s attracting international attention to the endangered, ...

In 1987, a compilation of Central American Garifuna music, or punta rock, was recorded in Andy Palacio's Sunrise Recording Studio and released to great acclaim. It featured the unique sound ...

Punta, a music style created by the Garifuna, and their warrior dance, called the Wanaragua, are both part of UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage.

Punta spread, as they and their language did, throughout the region. Now, the Garifuna have migrated so far that some of the best places to hear their music is in the clubs of New York City and ...

Aurelio Martínez, the celebrated Honduran folk musician who helped introduce the wider world to the music of the Garifuna people, died Monday, March 17, in a small passenger plane crash. He was ...

His Punta rock band, Black Fever, had a hectic tour schedule, and their music–featuring the drum-based beat traditional in Garifuna culture–was on most radio stations’ play lists. When he first ...