The music, food and culture of Belize will be woven throughout activities on Fair Grounds during the New Orleans Jazz Fest this year. Belize is the focus of the 2016 Cultural Exchange Pavilion.

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 ...

Rich in culture, music, and… Continue reading How To Experience Garifuna Culture When Visiting Belize. While the Garifuna people only make up four percent of Belize’s population, ...

Belize is famous for its rich biodiversity and alluring beaches, but the Central American country also is home to deeply rooted cultural groups with unique traditions and languages.

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.

His favorites include music from Mali, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Peru and Senegal, but Watina, the new album from Andy Palacio, stood above the rest. Palacio is of the Garifuna culture in ...

Their independent culture persists to this day in communities in Belize, Honduras, and neighboring nations, where their African-inspired language, customs and music are preserved and continue to ...

Garifuna culture in Belize is a beautiful part of the nation’s identity, deeply rooted in the history of the Afro-Indigenous heritage. ... music, and cuisine. ...