Category: 2009 Puerto Rican Music in Pioneer Valley

Student Contributors Thomas Sibley is a member of the class of 2010 at Amherst College majoring in Geology after spending

Ismael Santiago Born in Corozal, Puerto Rico, Ismael married his wife Carmen at age 17, a year before they moved to the

The Santiago Family Restaurant has been in Westfield, Massachusetts for just over 10 years now. October 15, 2009 marked the

A Short History of Jíbaros Jíbaros, the Taíno word for “People of the Forest,” are the mountain people of Puerto

The cuatro—also the word for “four” in Spanish—was originally a four-stringed instrument roughly fashioned in the mountains and hills of

William Cumpiano tells a musical history of Puerto Rico with words and music William Cumpiano tells a musical history of

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