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The BIG Salsa Festival New York 2023 is a Long Memorial Day Weekend Salsa & Bachata Party

BIG Salsa Festival New York 2023 (Edward Olive/Dreamstime)

The BIG Salsa Festival New York 2023 is a salsa and bachata dance festival with workshops, dance parties, master classes, a bootcamp and the Pro-Am Yamulee Challenge; at the New York Hilton Midtown; over Memorial Day Weekend, Friday-Monday, May 26-29, 2023. From $66. Full Pass $267. BIG Salsa Festival New York 2023 This is a really fun way to improve your moves and … [Read more...] about The BIG Salsa Festival New York 2023 is a Long Memorial Day Weekend Salsa & Bachata Party

The BIG Salsa Festival NYC 2022 Gets The City Dancing Salsa & Bachata

BIG Salsa Festival NYC 2022 (ksi/Adobe)

The BIG Salsa Festival NYC 2022 is a Salsa and Bachata dance festival at the New York Hilton Midtown over Memorial Day Weekend, Thu-Mon, May 26-30, 2022. From $60. Passes from $250. bigsalsafestival.com 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷 BIG Salsa Festival NYC 2022 This is a full on dance festival where you can take Salsa and Bachata lessons all day, enjoy dance performances and then dance the … [Read more...] about The BIG Salsa Festival NYC 2022 Gets The City Dancing Salsa & Bachata

BIG Salsa Festival 2019

BIG Salsa Festival. Courtesy Mabbo.

Brush up your shines and dance the night away with over 2,000 dancers at the BIG Salsa Festival, a Salsa and Bachata festival at the New York Hilton Midtown in Midtown, Manhattan over Memorial Day Weekend, May 24 - 27, 2019. Over 40 world-class Salsa and Bachata instructors. Over 50 workshops for all levels from beginner to advanced. Four nights of parties all night … [Read more...] about BIG Salsa Festival 2019

The Bushwick Film Festival is Coming of Age with a Diverse Crew of Emerging Filmmakers

Bushwick Film Festival (Mantoniuk/Dreamstime)

The Bushwick Film Festival 2023 is a community film festival that reflects the diversity of Bushwick, a center of Brooklyn's Latin, and especially Puerto Rican community. The Festival was founded in 2007 by Liberian-born Kweighbaye Kotee to provide opportunities to filmmakers of color. 16th Bushwick Film Festival 2023 The 16th Bushwick Film Festival 2023 uses its … [Read more...] about The Bushwick Film Festival is Coming of Age with a Diverse Crew of Emerging Filmmakers

Salsa Dance

Salsa NYC (Igor Borodin/Adobe)

Salsa Dance NYC The New York Salsa Dance Scene New York is the world salsa capital. The Origin of Salsa Dance Salsa originates in the African Diaspora, so you can trace it back to Mother Africa. That's a long journey, so we'll start in Cuba, the living heart of Caribbean culture. Most human culture begins in religious tradition celebrated at home with … [Read more...] about Salsa Dance

New York Salsa Festival 2023 Features Willie Colón, El Gran Combo, Victor Manuelle, Oscar D’Leon and Merengueros Oro Solido

New York Salsa Festival 2023 (EKH Pictures/Adobe)

The 17th New York Salsa Festival features the biggest stars in salsa including: Willie Colón, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Victor Manuelle, Grupo Niche, Oscar de Leon, Jerry Rivera, Tony Vega, Edgar Joel, with special guests New York merengueros Oro Sólido, backed by a great salsa band directed by Bobby Allende and Marc Quiñones; at Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, … [Read more...] about New York Salsa Festival 2023 Features Willie Colón, El Gran Combo, Victor Manuelle, Oscar D’Leon and Merengueros Oro Solido

Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastían 2023 is Puerto Rico’s Biggest Festival

Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián (SanSe) in 2020 (© Keith Widyolar/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián (San Sebastían Street Festival) is the street fair in beautiful Old San Juan that ends Puerto Rico's Christmas season, the world's longest. It's Puerto Rico's most popular festival. Locals call it the SanSe. [It's a little joke. Sanse is Puerto Rican slang for a West African faith based on forces of nature that is popular in the … [Read more...] about Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastían 2023 is Puerto Rico’s Biggest Festival

Carnival 2023 is the World’s Biggest Latin Party

Carnival, Carnaval, Carnevale is the world's biggest Latin party (Natalya Erofeeva/Dreamstime)

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New York Salsa

Salsa Stories TV (Bianka)

Latin dance, music, timba, tropical … [Read more...] about New York Salsa

The NY Comedy Festival 2022 Makes the Big Apple Laugh

NY Comedy Festival (Rido/Adobe)

The NY Comedy Festival 2022 makes all five New York City boroughs laugh, and gives local comedy clubs a chance to shine in the limelight. There are over 100 shows with 200 comedians ranging from the biggest stars to up-and-coming talent. NY Comedy Festival 2022 The NY Comedy Festival 2022 is at comedy clubs across New York City, Monday-Sunday, November 7-13, 2022. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 … [Read more...] about The NY Comedy Festival 2022 Makes the Big Apple Laugh

New York Latin Music Festivals

Music Festivals NYC (Drazen/Adobe)

NYC Music Festivals come all year long. In winter, artists perform for booking agents at APAP and Winter JazzFest. In summer, New York City becomes one long outdoor music festival. Latin Music Festivals NYC October 2022 September 2022 The Afropunk music festival is at Commodore Barry Park in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Saturday-Sunday, September … [Read more...] about New York Latin Music Festivals

New York Salsa Congress 2022 Turns the Marriott Marquis into a Salsa Party

New York Salsa Congress (Burcu/Akcakaya)

The New York Salsa Congress 2022 turns the NY Marriot Marquis in Times Square into a big Salsa dance party over Labor Day Weekend. 20th New York Salsa Congress 2022 The 20th New York Salsa Congress 2022 is at the NY Marriot Marquis in Times Square, Labor Day Weekend, Friday-Sunday, September 2-4, 2022 with an opening party at Cafe Iguana on Thursday, September 1, and a … [Read more...] about New York Salsa Congress 2022 Turns the Marriott Marquis into a Salsa Party

La Sonora Ponceña Plays Puerto Rican Salsa at XL Nightlife

La Sonora Ponceña (Lehman Center)

La Sonora Ponceña (The Ponce Sound) is one of Puerto Rico's legendary Salsa bands. "Moreno soy, porque nací de la rumba..." Papo Lucca y La Sonora Ponceña play Puerto Rican Salsa for El Día de Callao (a suburb of Lima, Peru) at XL Nightlife in Elizabeth, New Jersey on Saturday, August 20, 2022. Doors open at 9pm. From $50. tickeri.com 🇵🇷 The Ponce Sound The band is … [Read more...] about La Sonora Ponceña Plays Puerto Rican Salsa at XL Nightlife

Little Island’s Music & Dance Festival 2022 Taps Into Multicultural NYC

Little Island's Music & Dance Festival 2022 (Justin Chao/Little Island)

Little Island's Music & Dance Festival 2022 features Musical Masters, Percussive Dance, Generations of Dance, Black Women in Music, and more at Little Island in Hudson River Park off the Meatpacking District, July 20-31, 2022. $25/$45. littleisland.org 🇺🇸🇦🇹🇨🇺🇮🇳🇵🇷🇪🇸 Little Island's Music & Dance Festival 2022 Little Island's Music & Dance Festival 2022 taps … [Read more...] about Little Island’s Music & Dance Festival 2022 Taps Into Multicultural NYC

The AfriBembé Festival 2021 Celebrates the African Diaspora in El Barrio East Harlem

AfriBembé Festival 2021 (CCCADI)

The AfriBembé Festival 2021 is the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute's (CCCADI) end of summer street fair in El Barrio, East Harlem. Bembé can be an expression of faith or just a party. It's a coming together with family, friends, and community. There is usually eating, singing and dancing, shopping and lots of talking. 3rd AfriBembé Festival … [Read more...] about The AfriBembé Festival 2021 Celebrates the African Diaspora in El Barrio East Harlem

TRAVEL: Las Fiestas de Santiago Apóstol en Loíza, PR is a Festival of Bomba Puertorriqueña

Las Fiestas de Santiago Apóstol en Loíza (Keith Widyolar/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

Las fiestas de Santiago Apóstol (Feast of St James) is in Loíza Aldea, Puerto Rico Friday-Sunday, July 23-25, 2021 with various festivities through Sunday, August 1, 2021. It's a beautiful Puerto Rican patron saint festival derived from our Indigenous, Spanish and African heritage. Las fiestas de Santiago Apóstol 2021 Friday, July 23 ~ At 12:01am, the … [Read more...] about TRAVEL: Las Fiestas de Santiago Apóstol en Loíza, PR is a Festival of Bomba Puertorriqueña

116th Street Festival 2021 Broadcast Special Lineup & Where to Watch

116th Street Festival 2021 (Photomorphic/Brilla Media)

The 116th Street Festival 2021 street fair is a broadcast show this year on cable and livestreams on Saturday, July 17, 2021 from 7-9pm. 116thstfestival.com 116th Street Festival 2021 The Festival is the biggest Latin festival in the Northeast. It's normally held on the second Saturday of June on the night before the National Puerto Day Parade. But NYC opened rather … [Read more...] about 116th Street Festival 2021 Broadcast Special Lineup & Where to Watch

Tony Succar is The Salsa Renaissance Man

Tony Succar in 2021 (courtesy the artist)

Tony Succar is a salsa percussionist, composer and bandleader who won Latin Grammys for Producer of the Year and Best Salsa Album in 2019. He is the youngest artist to win both awards. Succar rose to fame with his first project, the PBS television special "Unity: The Latin Tribute to Michael Jackson." It's Michael Jackson hits done in salsa rhythm. Kevin Ceballo, Tito … [Read more...] about Tony Succar is The Salsa Renaissance Man

¡Que Viva Loisaida Festival 2021!

Loisaida Festival (Ryan John Lee/Loisaida Center)

The Loisaida Festival 2021 street fair goes virtual at loisaidafest.nyc on Sunday, May 23 and Sunday, May 30, 2021 at 2pm. FREE 34th Loisaida Festival 2021 The festival normally draws about 25,000 people to the Lower East Side. This year we can't gather because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead we'll gather virtually with the whole Loisaida diaspora. The Festival is … [Read more...] about ¡Que Viva Loisaida Festival 2021!

The 2020 AfriBembé Festival Honors Oshun Virtually

AfriBembé Festival (Worldshots/Dreamstime)

The 2020 AfriBembé Festival is virtual on cccadi.org on Saturday, September 19, 2020 at 2pm. AfriBembé Festival The AfriBembé Festival is a New York City festival of African diaspora culture produced annually by the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) in August or September. All human culture begins as celebrations of family, community and … [Read more...] about The 2020 AfriBembé Festival Honors Oshun Virtually

Flamenco Festival New York City Center 2020

Flamenco Festival New York 20/20. Is she bull, matador, or the Fire in Flamenco. (FF/NYCC)

The 20th Flamenco Festival New York City Center brings the best dancers from Spain to New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan, Friday-Sunday, March 27-29, 2020 and April 3-5, 2020. POSTPONED TO FALL Tickets from $35 at nycitycenter.org #FlamencoFestival The 20th Anniversary of the Flamenco Festival New York City Center is a feet on the ground, head in the … [Read more...] about Flamenco Festival New York City Center 2020

RAMAS Festival ~ Rincón Alternative Music Art Surf

RAMAS Festival, Rincón, Puerto Rico

The RAMAS Festival ~ Rincón Alternative Music Art Surf Festival is in Rincón, Puerto Rico from Friday-Sunday, March 22-24, 2019. From $20 RAMAS Festival ~ Rincón Alternative Music Art Surf Festival 2019 https://youtu.be/WxG1c4sQRKM A lot of great bands are playing. Friday, March 22 is Reggae Yellow Man headlines. Gomba Jahbari The Dubplates Calma … [Read more...] about RAMAS Festival ~ Rincón Alternative Music Art Surf

Brazilian Day New York 2018 is the biggest Brazilian festival outside Brazil

Brazilian Day NY by Keith Widyolar

Brazilian Day New York is a Labor Day weekend Brazilian street fair on 25 blocks around Manhattan's Little Brazil (West 46th Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues). It draws about 1 million people and is the biggest Brazilian festival outside of Brazil. 34th Brazilian Day New York 2018 Brazilian Day New York 2018 is Sunday, September 2, 2018 from 12 noon until we all … [Read more...] about Brazilian Day New York 2018 is the biggest Brazilian festival outside Brazil

New York International Salsa Congress 2018

Salsa dancers

The New York International Salsa Congress over Labor Day Weekend in Times Square is a NYC's big salsa dance festival with workshops and dance parties with live music by legendary salsa bands. New York International Salsa Congress 2018 https://youtu.be/zAHbpPV8FEo The party is at the Marriott Marquis in the heart of Times Square, Manhattan, Thursday - Monday, August 30 - … [Read more...] about New York International Salsa Congress 2018

Dominican Film Festival in New York 2017

Dominican Film Festival New York 2017

Dominican Film Festival New York is an annual Summer showcase in Washington Heights of movies made in the Dominican Republic and by the Dominican diaspora. It is the biggest Dominican film festival outside the Dominican Republic. Most movies are in Spanish. 6th annual Dominican Film Festival New York 2017 The 6th annual Dominican Film Festival New York is at the United Palace … [Read more...] about Dominican Film Festival in New York 2017

Things To Do in NYC This Week May 22-28, 2023

Things to do in NYC this weekend: May 26-28, 2023 (Madrabothair/Dreamstime)

Things to do in NYC this week May 22-28, 2023 include Latin dance, festivals, and music. SHARE Things To Do in NYC in This Week Latin Dance 46th DanceAfrica 2023 🇬🇭 🇺🇸Midtown Dance Afro DanceFOLKLORIC:SALSA: BIG Salsa Festival New YorkLatin Mondays at TajSalsa Tuesdays at Mamajuana BronxSalsa Sundays at Orchard Beach TANGO: Tango CaféTango La NacionalEl … [Read more...] about Things To Do in NYC This Week May 22-28, 2023

Things to do in NYC in May 2020

May 2020 New York Latin Culture Calendar (Giovanni Gagliardi/Dreamstime)

May 2020 is one of the most beautiful months to visit New York City because of the big fluffy clouds from the Caribbean that frame the urban landscape. The City is still in it main school year rhythm. The weather is usually summery, but not too hot. May is National Salsa Month and Haitian Heritage Month. MAY HOLIDAYS: Cinco de Mayo, Mother's Day and Memorial Day … [Read more...] about Things to do in NYC in May 2020

Things to do in NYC in May 2019

Things to do in New York in May

  April 2019 Calendar Week 18 April 29 - May 5 Week 19 May 6-12 Week 20 May 12-19 Week 21 May 20-26 Week 22 May 27 - June 2 WEEK 18 ~ April 29 to May 5, 2019 Wednesday, May 1 Celebrate International Workers Day. The Old Masters Part I auction at Christie's in Rockefeller Center is at 10am. FREE The Old Masters Part II auction at Christie's in Rockefeller Center … [Read more...] about Things to do in NYC in May 2019

Bachata Dance

Bachata NYC (Aleksey Mnogosmyslov/Dreamstime)

Bachata Origins Bachata is tropical dance music that began as a folk tradition in the Dominican countryside and the barrios of the capital, Santo Domingo in the 1960s. It is Cuban bolero / trova (Caribbean troubadour or folk music) played Dominican style with the rhythms of the Dominican tambora drum from merengue, which is the foundation of traditional Dominican music. … [Read more...] about Bachata Dance

New York Latin Dance NYC

New York Latin Dance (chaoss/Adobe)

New York Latin Dance NYC is both Latin dance theatre and Latin dance. Music and dance are a yin and yang pair. ☯️ Latin dance theatre: African Diaspora, ballet, contemporary, flamenco, folkloric, jazz, modern, hip-hop and tap. By the way, ballet is a Latin dance. Broadway is jazz dance. Latin dance (social): bachata, bomba, champeta, dem bow, house, merengue, … [Read more...] about New York Latin Dance NYC

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