“E-le-le, le-le-le, A-la-la, la-la-la-la…” Discover a world of things to do in NYC in October, the busy end of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Columbus Day Stopped Southerners from Lynching Italian Americans, but the Evil Man Unleashed an Apocalypse on the Americas 🇪🇸 (Turns out he wasn’t even Italian)
New York City Wine and Food Festival (NYCWFF) Fundraises for God’s Love We Deliver Out of Brooklyn This Year, Oy Vey NA 🇺🇸 🇨🇷 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇦, CB 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇯🇲 🇵🇷 🇹🇹, SA 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪 🇻🇪, AF 🇬🇭 🇪🇹 🇲🇦 🇿🇦, AS 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇱🇧 🇯🇵 🇵🇭
Nuestros Sonidos ~ Carnegie Hall’s Latin Culture Festival
By naming this season-long festival of Latin culture “Nuestros Sonidos” (Our Sounds), Carnegie Hall is reaching out to Latins and friends, but is also saying that we belong at Carnegie Hall too!
Things To Do in NYC October 28 – November 3, 2024
Angélique Kidjo, the “Queen of African Music,” Celebrates 40 Years of African Joy at Carnegie Hall 🇧🇯 🇫🇷
Hispanic Heritage Month is About the Great Mix of Peoples of the Americas
What’s up? ¿Qué tal? ¿Qué bolá? Sak pase? ¿Qué lo qué? Kilode! Ça va? Hoe gaat het? ¿Quiubo? Tudo bem? Imaynallam! ¡Che! Now let’s get down!
A casual greeting: in the USA, Mexico/Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Yorubaland, French Caribbean, Dutch Caribbean, Colombia, Brazil, Quechua Andes, Argentina. In Indigenous and African Diasporic tradition, getting down means connecting with the divine. It’s not what you thought. LOL!
Things To Do in NYC November 4-10, 2024
Melvis Santa & Rafael Monteagudo Duo Afro-Cuban Jazz at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem 🇨🇺
How America Got the Blues
In the beginning of Turtle Island, we are all Indigenous somewhere:
The Spaniard brought the African.
Eddie Palmieri at the 92nd Street Y in 2016 🇵🇷
The African got everyone to dance.
In the States, they took away the drum, and we got the blues!”
The blues, with gospel and ragtime, is the root of most American popular culture, including: jazz, swing, rock, mambo, soul, salsa, disco, hip hop, and trap.
Together, the Latin family has created culture that is uniquely American, and loved around the world.
Latin Art
Latin Books
Latin Comedy
Latin Dance
Latin Fashion
Latin Festivals
Latin Film
Latin Food
Latin Music
Latin Parades
Latin Sports
Latin Theatre
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Oye, you are crossing the Kalûnga
The Call of The Drum
Bienvenido a el areíto en el batéy del pueblo Latino. Somos uno en el tambor.
Escucha la llamada. La rumba ya se forma en el solar.
Yo prendo una vela.
(Welcome to the community gathering in the sacred circle of the Latin people.
We are one in the drum. Listen to the call. The party is forming in the field. I lit a candle.)
Bom, bom, bom
ba-ta-ba-ta, ba, ta-ba, ta-ba
Bom-ba, ta-ba, Bom-ba, ta-ba
Bom-ba, ta-ba, Bom-ba, ta-ba
This call of the drum is the bomba Puertorriqueña sicá rhythm.
Singing begins with the “Diana,” the call to prayer that asks for spiritual connection before we dance,
because by tradition, dance is how we pray.
“E-le-le, le-le-le, A-la-la, le-le-le“
Loíza Aldea, Loíza, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
“E-le, le-le, le-le-le-le“
La Marina, Matanzas, Cuba 🇨🇺
“Dirikirikiriki, Dirikirikiriki, Dirikirikiriki, D, Dikiri”
Capotillo 42, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
“Ay, ay, Ay-ay“
San Juan de Ulúa, Veracruz, Mexico 🇲🇽
“Aí aí aí“
San Basilio de Palenque, Bolívar, Colombia 🇨🇴
“Bim Bom, Bim Bim, Bom Bom“
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷
“I like to be in América“
San Juan Hill, New York City 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🇮🇱
¡ A-G-U-A-N-I-L-E !
El Barrio, Loisaida, Bushwick, y El Bronx 🇵🇷
Aguanile is a self-healing prayer to Ogun.
Who answers the call? The community responds!
¿Oye Cómo Va?
We are Indigenous, European, African, Arab, Jewish, Asian, and everything in between.
“¿Oye cómo va? Mi ritmo, bueno pa’ bailar, mulata.”
Hey, how’s it going? My rhythm is good for dancing, Latina.
“Andando, andando, andando…”
(Walking, walking, walking…)
“Yo me tiro pa’l solar”
(I throw myself into the field)
Dios te bendiga
(God bless you)
¡Ashé!