BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalonians gathered to celebrate Puerto Rico’s cultural heritage with a festival honoring the island’s national instrument Sunday. The Buffalo History Museum and the Hispanic ...

FALL RIVER — Latinx Music Ambassadors Sol y Canto will be joined by virtuoso Puerto Rican cuatro player and singer Fabiola Méndez and her trio at the Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St., on ...

Fabiola Méndez picked up the cuatro in her youth and has been playing Puerto Rican folk music, both traditional and modern, ever since. On Monday, Sept. 19, she will play on the main stage of the ...

The first student to graduate from Berklee College of Music with a specialty in the Puerto Rican instrument, Mendez is now artist in residence with Boston Landmarks Orchestra. She’ll perform two free ...

“¡Ataca Yomo! (Attack Yomo!),” shouts singer Héctor Lavoe as the bright notes of what sounds like a guitar solo start flying by our ears in the middle of the iconic salsa hit “La Murga.” But what ...

The “cuatro” (Spanish for the number “four”) is a deceptively simple instrument. It’s a small, four-stringed guitar but it serves as the backbone of traditional Puerto Rican jíbaro music. Over decades ...

Fabiola Méndez‘s performance this Saturday, June 24, at the Cold Hollow Sculpture Park in Enosburg has been moved to the Meeting House on the Green in East Fairfield due to expected inclement weather.

HAMPTON — The Lane Memorial Library is hosting a special concert with Fabiola Méndez on Sept. 20 to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. The event will take place at 2 p.m. at the library. Registration ...

When a comedian mocked Puerto Rico last week at Madison Square Garden — possibly changing the course of the presidential election — a wave of justified outrage washed across the country. Whether or ...

This Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, NPR Music celebrates artists from all corners of Latinidad with an 'El Tiny' takeover. The smile that erupts onto Fabiola Méndez's face just as she launches into her first ...