When Cuba Became Home: Living Through the Pandemic in Havana
I moved to Havana in 2019, married my wife, and lived through the first months of COVID in Cuba. This is how the country treated me when life got hard.
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How Studying Percussion in Cuba Changed the Way I Hear Music
How years of studying and listening to Cuban percussion changed the way I hear clave, syncopation, triplets, rhythmic layering and the drum set.
Kauai, Tourism, and the Way We Travel
I’m writing this at the airport in Kauai after a family trip that was supposed to be mostly about getting away for a few days. Kauai is beautiful. We had a great time together. But I also realized pretty quickly…
Across Cuba: Matanzas, Santiago, Baracoa and the Music Between
This was one of the most ambitious Cuba trips my team and I had put together: two travelers, a route across much of the island, and a lot of music I had wanted to experience firsthand for years. We started…
How Art, Music, and Culture are making positive changes in Colombia.
Depending on where you come from, you may think many different things about Colombia (The country.) In the American mind we seem to think of things like drugs, gorillas, and Pablo Escobar. In fact, these things are what the Colombians…
Music and Travel VLOG
I have been absolutely terrible at updating my BLOG, but that all changes now… As some of you have know I have been very busy building my cultural travel agencies HavanaMusicTours.com and MusicalGetaways.com over the last few years. With Havana…