Carnegie Hall announced its 2019-20 Season in January 2019.
Latin music in Carnegie Hall’s 2019-20 Season
These shows have a Latin or African connection.
September 2019
September 23, 2019 ~ Honduran-born violinist Jorge Ávila (DCINY concertmaster) does a classical recital in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall at 8pm. From $20
September 25, 2019 French pianist Gaspard Dehaene gives a classical recital in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall at 7:30pm. $30
October 2019
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Saturday, October 5, 2019 ~ Mexico-born singer-songwriter Edna Vazquez plays the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Park at 5pm. FREE
Sunday, October 6, 2019 ~ Honduran-Cuban-American drag queen Bianca del Rio brings her new comedy show It’s Jester Joke to Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at 8pm. From $39.50
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Tuesday, October 8, 2019 ~ Thandiswa Mazwai (Bongo Maffin) sings South African Xhosa rhythms at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NYC at 7pm. FREE
October 17, 2019 ~ Orchestra of St. Luke’s plays chamber music that shows the Italian roots of Bach’s compositions at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at 8pm. From $15
October 19, 2019 ~ Benin International Musical blends West African Vodou and folk music with rock, hip-hop and electronica in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall at 9:30pm. From $35
November 2019
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Sunday, November 10, 2019 ~ Ensemble Connect , Carnegie Hall’s young musician orchestra, plays a concert that includes French composer Francis Poulenc’s Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano at Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church at 5pm. FREE
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Sunday, November 17, 2019 ~ Catalyst Quartet plays classical composers of the African diaspora at the Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library in Prospect Park at 4pm. FREE
November 22, 2019 ~ The French-Canadian Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal plays Mozart and Bruckner at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at 8pm. From $12
December 2019
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Thursday, December 5, 2019 ~ The Baylor Project plays gospel, blues and soul at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse in Harlem, NYC at 7:30pm. FREE
Friday, December 6, 2019 ~ In Diaspora Songs, curator Angélique Kidjo and musical director Terence Blanchard play with the African roots of American music in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at 8pm.
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Saturday, December 7, 2019 ~ Brooklyn-based Los Hacheros play Cuban/Puerto Rican Latin music for dancing at the Brooklyn Museum at 5pm. FREE
January 2020
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Saturday, January 11, 2020 ~ Kayleigh Decker, backed by pianist Madeline Slettedahl, gives an opera recital at St. Michael’s Church in Chelsea, NYC at 3pm. FREE
January 24, 2020 ~ QuebecFest! brings Le Vent du Nord and De Temps Antan to play French-Canadian dance tunes at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall at 8:30pm. From $35
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Monday, January 27, 2020 ~ Marimba/Vibraphone player Stefon Harris and his band Blackout play jazz at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NYC at 7pm. FREE
February 2020
February 6, 2020 ~ Orchestra of St. Luke’s plays a program of Handel and Vivaldi at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at 8pm. From $15
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Friday, February 14, 2020 ~ Brooklyn-based Pistolera plays its own style of regional Mexican music at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens at 8pm. FREE
March 2020
Grammy-winning Benin singer Angélique Kidjo brings her Daughter of Independence show to Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at 8pm. From $17
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Sunday, March 15, 2020 ~ Brooklyn-based Moona Luna plays its blend of American, African and Latin bilingual-bicultural music for kids at the New York Hall of Science in in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens at 2pm. FREE
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Saturday, March 21, 2020 ~ Bronx-born Maluca Mala brings her Dominican merengue-hip-hop-edm to El Museo del Barrio at 4pm. FREE
April 2020
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020 ~ Toshi Reagon sings of women’s rights in her R&B style at the LGBT Community Center in NYC’s West Village at 7pm. FREE
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Saturday, April 25, 2020 ~ Ensemble Connect , Carnegie Hall’s young musician orchestra, plays a concert that includes a chôro by Brazilian composer Villa-Lobos at the Ridgewood Branch Library in Ridgewood, Queens at 2pm. FREE
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Sunday, April 26, 2020 ~ Harpist Bridget Kibbey plays a concert of Bach to Brazil at Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church in Hudson Heights, NYC at 5pm. FREE
May 2020
Latin Grammy winner Buika, the Queen of Flamenco Soul, plays Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at 8pm. From $17
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Thursday, May 14, 2020 ~ Trumpet player Maurice “Mobetta” Brown plays his style of jazz-blues-rock-hip-hop at Harlem Stage Gatehouse at 7:30pm. FREE
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Saturday, May 16, 2020 ~ Puerto Rican drummer Otura Mun and ÌFÉ play a blend of Cuban rumba, Yoruba ceremony, Jamaican dancehall and American R&B at El Museo del Barrio in El Barrio East Harlem, NYC at 4pm. FREE
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Thursday, May 28, 2020 ~ Tabou Combo plays Haitian compas with a mix of Dominican merengue, Haitian Vodou, French Creole and American funk at The Plaza at 300 Ashland in Fort Greene, Brooklyn at 6:30pm. FREE
June 2020
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Sunday, June 21, 2020 ~ NYC’s all-woman Flor de Toloache plays Mexican mariachi in the Dumbo Archway at 5pm. FREE