While the Garifuna people only make up four percent of Belize’s population, the culture plays a huge role in the country’s history. When a ship of enslaved Africans sank, the survivors reached ...

Palacio later teamed up with music producer Ivan Duran to co-found the collective, which is designed to preserve Garifuna music and culture, and to promote it in Belize and throughout the world. Their ...

Garifuna singers, dancers, and drummers perform in Hopkins, a small village in the Stann Creek District of Belize. Garifuna people are using music to revive their endangered language.

I feared the Garifuna Experience would be contrived, but am welcomed for a music and dance performance - the highlight is a lesson from Grammy nominated Warren Martinez, on traditional instruments.

In addition to its ancient Mayan history, Belize has another indigenous population dating back hundreds of years, the Garifuna. This vibrant culture descends from the Afro-Caribbean and Carib people ...

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 55 ...

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 55.