The long-standing London Latin music festival, La Linea, will soon return for its 20th edition, taking over venues between April 15th and May 4th. The first acts to be announced included the enchanting electro bossa nova queen, Bebel... Read Article
Sounds and Colours is very happy to be partnering with Homies on Donkeys Sound System and Tasty Bass for what will be a quality night of tropical bass from Mexico and beyond courtesy of regular S&C contributor Bial Hclap... Read Article
Wearing his famous black cowboy hat, a mark of his guajiro, or peasant, roots, Eliades Ochoa stands out among the patrons of a central London café. Accompanied by his wife and biographer Grisel Sande Figueredo, the 71-year-old seems... Read Article
It’s that time of the year again. And by this we mean of course, the announcement of La Linea Latin Music Festival’s keenly anticipated 2018 line-up. If you can overlook December’s impending tide of boozing, baubles and ubiquitous... Read Article
It’s always exciting when a new venue announces itself on us and that is certainly the case with Nell’s Jazz and Blues Club. Though the venue itself has been around for a number of years they have recently... Read Article
The crunching chill of the post-Christmas winter months is always a testing time for Londoners. And what with a Trump Presidency and Hard Brexit, 2017 presents an especially lugubrious prospect for many. But for Latin music lovers (partial)... Read Article
In tribute to the classic 1972 film Our Latin Thing, Colombian percussionist Roberto Pla will be hitting the Barbican stage this July for an all-star celebration of Latin music in London. Our Latin Thing set a high benchmark for... Read Article
Family Atlantica completely floored us when they released their debut album a few years ago. Named simply Family Atlantica it was a rhythmic, poetic and slightly cosmic journey across the Atlantic, from Venezuela to the UK, on to... Read Article
Colombian band Sidestepper are set to return to London for a much-anticipated show featuring their live band to perform their stunning new album Supernatural Love at East London’s Village Underground. One of the pioneers of the Colombian electro-cumbia... Read Article
This April, London’s Latin music festival La Línea returns for its sixteenth year in the capital, bringing some of the best contemporary talents from Latin America to venues across the city. Chile’s kings of cumbia Chico Trujillo will... Read Article
Next weekend, the London Remixed Festival will once again grace East London’s Rich Mix for a two-day showcase of some of the most vibrant up-and-coming acts in world music. Over twenty different artists will take to the stage... Read Article
In the name of May Day, the Love Carnival crew will be returning to the Bussey Building on Friday May 1st for what is set to be a killer tropical explosion. Cocotaxi will be bringing cumbia and dancehall... Read Article
