Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Cuban All-Stars play The Blue Note
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Live music Cuban jazz
Blue Note Jazz Festival
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC ~ One of Dizzy’s legacy bands plays Gillespie’s Latin hits like ‘Manteca’ and ‘Tin Tin Deo’
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Paul Winter’s Summer Solstice at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
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Women’s World Cup France 2019
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Things to do in NYC
June 17-23, 2019
“Qué me habrá echa’o esa chica
Que me tiene arrebata’o
Que me tiene medio loco
Que ya estoy enamora’o”
Brujeria sung by El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico in 1979
Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks Hot Jazz at Iguana
Mondays & Tuesdays
Live music italian jazz
TIMES SQUARE, NYC ~ New York’s specialist in early New Orleans Hot Jazz (Dixieland)
Pedro Giraudo plays Argentine Tango at The Django
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Live music Argentine tango dancing
TRIBECA, NYC ~ 2018 Latin Grammy “Best Tango Album”
Celebrate Juneteenth, the end of slavery in Texas and the United States
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Human Rights celebration
GALVESTON, Texas ~ A year and a half after the Emancipation Proclamation, and a month after the end of the U.S. Civil War, the U.S. Army announced the enforcement of the end of slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865
Forro in the Dark Brazilian Forro at Nublu
Wednesdays
Live music Brazilian forro
EAST VILLAGE, NYC ~ It’s Brazil night at Nublu!
VolvoTango Argentine Tango Dancing on Pier 45
Wednesdays & Sundays, April-November
Argentine tango dancing
WEST VILLAGE, NYC ~ Dance on a pier with romantic Hudson river views
Dance Argentine Tango at Tango La Nacional
Thursdays
Argentine tango dancing
CHELSEA, NYC ~ New York’s most traditional milonga (tango party) is also the center of NYC’s tango community
Celebrate the Summer Solstice 2019, the shortest night of the year
Friday, June 21, 2019
Celebrate Midsummer, the longest day and shortest night of the year in the northern hemisphere, with a little Fête de la Musique
Mermaid Parade 2019 at Coney Island
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Cosplay parade
CONEY ISLAND, BROOKLYN ~ Scantily clad mermaids and mermen let it all hang out (almost)
Do the Central Park Tango
Saturdays, June-September
Argentine tango dancing
CENTRAL PARK, NYC ~ Dance, take a free lesson or just watch. FREE
Paul Winter’s Summer Solstice at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Jazz live music concert
MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, NYC ~ Celebrate the dawn after the summer solstice
Corpus Christi Procession at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Catholic church celebration
MIDTOWN EAST, NYC ~ Celebrate the divinity in bread and wine, the Catholic Eucharist
Dance Argentine Tango at El Destino at Solas
Sundays
Argentine tango dancing
EAST VILLAGE, NYC ~ NYC’s best tango dancers embrace in an intimate room and dance to one of New York’s best tango DJs
Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Cuban Jazz at Birdland
Sundays
Live music Cuban jazz
HELL’S KITCHEN, NYC ~ Multi-Grammy winners carry on the Sunday tradition started by Chico O’Farrill in 1997
‘Hamilton’ Puerto Rican Broadway at the Richard Rodgers
Open run. Dark Mondays
Puerto Rican Broadway musical theatre
TIMES SQUARE, NYC ~ The Broadway hit of our generation was written by Puerto Rican New Yorker Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights)
Women’s World Cup France 2019
June 7 – July 7, 2019
Women’s soccer
Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, French, Italian, Spanish, & USA teams play to be the best
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Features
Latin culture is originally Italian. Greco-Romans and the Renaissance are the foundation of European civilization. When Rome fell, European civilization survived in the hands of Christians, Jews and Muslims in Spain.
SummerStage 2019 Lineup Announced
June 1 – August 27, 2019
Summer live music dance theatre festival
NYC PARKS ~ African, Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Creole, Cuban, Dominican, French, Garifuna, Haitian, Indigenous, Italian, Jewish, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Spanish culture and more. FREE
Mundos Alternos, welcome to the Latin world(s) at Queens Museum
April 7 – August 18, 2019
Wednesday-Sunday
FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, QUEENS ~ You might not have a heard of most of these artists, but each and every one will make you think (as in Kidnapped by Aliens)
In the Americas, European mixed with Indigenous and African into our Latin thing. We learned to turn suffering into joy, so now everybody wants some of whatever we are having.
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“Now in one of my earliest tunes, ‘New Orleans Blues,’ you can notice the Spanish tinge. In fact, if you can’t manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning, I call it, for jazz.”
Jelly Roll Morton (Louisiana Creole, 1890-1941)
African | Brazilian | Colombian | Cuban | Dominican | Ecuadorian | Italian | Jewish | Mexican | Puerto Rican | MORE
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Things to do in NYC Next Week
June 24-30, 2019
Mulher, você vai gostar
Tô levando uns amigos pra conversar
…E vamos botar água no feijão
‘Feijoada Completa’ (1978) Chico Buarque (Brazil)
Women’s World Cup France 2019
June 7 – July 7, 2019
Women’s soccer
Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, French, Italian, Spanish, & USA teams play to be the best
Our Lady of Perpetual Help is the patron saint of Haiti
Thursday, June 27, 2019
HAITI ~ She is known for miracles preventing cholera and smallpox in Haiti in 1882
Dance Argentine Tango at the All Night Milonga at Stepping Out
Saturday, June 29, 2019
Dancing
NOMAD, NYC ~ One of America’s biggest Argentine tango parties has great guest teachers and performers
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Latin Art Exhibitions On View
“Todo lo que puede ser imaginado es real” ~ Everything you can imagine is real
Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
Mundos Alternos, welcome to the Latin world(s) at Queens Museum
April 7 – August 18, 2019
Wednesday-Sunday
FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, QUEENS ~ You might not have a heard of most of these artists, but each and every one will make you think (as in Kidnapped by Aliens)
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything at the Jewish Museum
April 12 – September 8, 2019
Closed Wednesdays
Jewish French-Canadian art exhibition
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ One of the great poets of the last generation knew exactly where the light enters you
The revenge of the Shaman ‘Camp: Notes on Fashion’ at the Met Museum
Daily, May 9 – September 8, 2019
French, French-Canadian, Italian, Spanish fashion art exhibition
UPPER EAST SIDE, NYC ~ The Costume Institute’s 2019 exhibition explores how camp fashion goes mainstream
Whitney Biennial 2019 shows the diversity of American art today
May 17 – Sep 22, 2019, Closed Tuesdays
Argentine, Colombian, French, Indigenous, Mexican & Puerto Rican art exhibition
MEATPACKING DISTRICT, NYC ~ The survey of the latest developments in American art
Taíno culture at the Museum of the American Indian
July 28, 2018 – October 2019
Daily
Indigenous Taíno art exhibition
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NYC ~ Caribbean communities are reclaiming our roots. FREE
‘Crown of the Andes,’ Colombian art at the Met Museum
Daily
Colombian Ecuadorian Peruvian Indigenous Inca art
UPPER EAST SIDE, permanent collection ~ This Marion crown from Popayán, Colombia contains the legendary Atahualpa Emerald which belonged to the last Inca emperor
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Holidays
Vuelvo al sur
como se vuelve siempre el amor
vuelvo a vos, con mi deseo, con mi temor
‘Vuelvo al Sur’ (1988) by Astor Piazzolla, lyrics by Fernando Solanas (Argentina)
Fourth of July 2019, U.S. Independence Day
Thursday, July 4, 2019
U.S. National day holiday celebration
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania ~ The 2nd Continental Congress declared the thirteen colonies’ independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”
Labor Day 2019
Monday, September 2, 2019
U.S. holiday celebration
Celebrate organized labor and the unofficial end of summer
Veterans Day Weekend 2019
November 8-11, 2019
Friday-Monday
U.S. Holiday
Honor all who serve in the U.S. military on the anniversary of the end of World War I, November 11, 1918
Thanksgiving Weekend 2019
November 28 to December 1, 2019
U.S. Holiday
America’s family holiday opens the winter holiday season
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Things to do in New York
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December
Things to do in New York in June 2019
JUNE 2019
Pride Month
SummerStage
American Ballet Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park
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1 Blue Note Jazz Festival
1 Central Park Tango
2 Celebrate Israel Parade
2 Drama Desk Awards
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3 CFDA Fashion Awards
3-5 NYFW Men’s Spring Summer 2020
4 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!
7-7 FIFA Women’s World Cup
8 116th Street Festival
9 National Puerto Rican Day Parade
9 Tony Awards
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10 Portugal Day
11 Museum Mile Festival
11-16 NY Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks
13-20 Human Rights Watch Film Festival
14-7 Copa America
15-7 CONCACAF Gold Cup
16 Father’s Day
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22 Coney Island Mermaid Parade
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25-13 Midsummer Night Swing
30 NYC Pride March
Things to do in New York in July 2019
JULY 2019
SummerStage
Midsummer Night Swing
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn
Shakespeare in the Park
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
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4 U.S. Independence Day
5 Venezuelan Independence Day
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9 Argentine Independence Day
9-13 LAMC Latin Alternative Music Conference
12-13 Afro-Latino Fest NYC
14 111th Street Salsa Street Fair
14 Latin Culture Carnival Bronx
14 Colombian Independence Pride Festival
14 Bastille Day NYC
14 Disability Pride NYC
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16-24 16 Shakespeare in the Park ~ Coriolanus
20 Colombian Independence Day
21-3 Brasil Summerfest
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22-16 NYC Restaurant Week
24-11 Lincoln Center Out of Doors
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29 Junta Hispana Street Fair
Things to do in New York in August 2019
AUGUST 2019
Brasil Summerfest
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
NYC Restaurant Week
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2-4 Carnaval del Barrio Street Fair
4 Ecuadorian Parade
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10 Ecuadorian Independence Day
10 Eid al-Adha
11 Dominican Day Parade
11 Battery Dance Festival
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16 Dominican Restoration Day
24-25 Afropunk
25 Uruguayan Independence Day
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26-8 US Open Tennis
27-28 La Casita
29-2 NY Int’l Salsa Congress
“Sí yo se, yo soy así, un poco loco, pero feliz” ~ Yes I know, I am like this, a little crazy, but happy
Pirulo y la Tribu (Puerto Rico)
Thank you, Gracias, Obrigado, Grazie, Merci, Mulțumesc
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Aunque tú me has echado en el abandono,
aunque tú has muerto todas mis ilusiones,
en vez de maldecirte con justo encono
y en mis sueños te colmo,
y en mis sueños te colmo de bendiciones.
‘Lágrimas Negras’ (1929) ~ Miguel Matamoros (Santiago de Cuba, 1894-1971)
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Dios te bendiga…