Sentence examples for a bomba from inspiring English sources
While most casitas -- a small party house gathering according to Puerto Rican custom -- use their gardens primarily for social events, Rincon Criollo, has become a bomba mecca.
In choosing the songs, it is marvelous to see that when we interpret music of Puerto Rico, and a bomba dance seems to be so much ours, because the rhythm, well, it's not the same, but it's similar.
"The beat you choose to kick you off across the floor identifies you as closely as your Spanish accent," notes Ms Steward, and if you are the kind of person who can tell a bolero from a bomba as easily as you can distinguish the Spanish of Panama from that of Peru, no problem.
Puerto Rican classic, folk, popular and Africa-rooted music is the focus of the annual Puerto Rican Music Festival, sponsored by the Puerto Rico Institute of Culture on weekends throughout November; it opens on Nov 2, with a bomba and plena concert.
While the liquid of choice in most other parts of the country was ice-cold water or beer, this tea-like drink - served in a gourd, sipped through a bomba (metal straw) and a speciality of the gauchos - was the perfect companion as the temperatures plummeted.
"I do not want to make excuses here, but I think that, for example, one internet comment that we should advertise the terrorist pizza menu with a Bomba energy drink – well that is a marvellous idea, too.
Noise is what surrounds us, I'd said earlier, gesturingto the wider world of disinformation, the dizzy spells that come when someone you know might have been in a bombas the toll has not yet been reckoned except by hearsay.
She takes an up-tempo tour of African-influenced music across the Americas, singing not only Peruvian festejos and landós, but also a Colombian cumbia, a Cuban son, a Puerto Rican bomba, a Brazilian coco, a funk tune about New Orleans, a Mexican son jarocho.
"Here we feel at home," said Carlos Torres, a professional bomba drummer and event organizer.
But where we really felt ourselves lucky was later that night when we wound up quite by accident at the Plaza San José, on Calle San Sebastián, during a traditional bomba party.
These are the best, the B29 clone, which is a real bomba!" said Din. Apparently, different durians are named after bombers - easy to understand when you hear the heavy thump of armour-plated fruit hitting the ground.
