Latin music is diverse blends of Indigenous, European, African & Asian influences.
Classical + Cumbia + Hip-Hop + House + Jazz + Mariachi + Pop + Reggaeton + Salsa
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Music Festivals + Music Awards
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Theaters + Jazz Clubs + Night Clubs
Latin Music NYC News
Grupo Rebolú
Friday, February 21, 2020
TERRAZA 7
Elmhurst, Queens
The Caribbean Colombians get everybody dancing
Tito Rojas
Friday, February 21, 2020
LA BOOM
Woodside, Queens
“El Gallo Salsero” sings Puerto Rican salsa with Colombian vallenato singer Daniel Calderón and Colombian DJ Alex Sensation
Pedrito Martinez
Friday-Saturday, February 21-22, 2020
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
APPEL ROOM
Columbus Circle, NYC
One of the world’s best Cuban rumba percussionists joins Herlin Riley Presents: Sounds of Cuba and New Orleans.
Bárbara Martínez
Friday, February 21, 2020
CLUB BONAFIDE
Midtown East, NYC
The Argentine-Venezuelan New Yorker sings Brazilian bossa nova and Spanish flamenco
Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
Sundays
BIRDLAND
Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
Cuban jazz by this multiple Grammy-winning band continues a Sunday night tradition started by Chico O’Farrill in 1997
Los Hacheros
Sundays
VERLAINE
Lower East Side, NYC
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Thursday, March 5, 2020
GONZALEZ Y GONZALEZ
Greenwich Village, NYC
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Puerto Rican Golden Age salsa for dancing. ¡WEPA!
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Original Sponsor
Carnegie Hall
Bulla en el Barrio
Monday, February 24, 2020
BARBÈS
Park Slope, Brooklyn
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Colombian Bullerengue inspired by the Caribbean women’s song and dance tradition from San Basilio de Palenque, the first free African town in the Americas
Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Alegría directs a Mardi Gras Count Basie Tribute with the NJCU Jazz Orchestra & NJCU N.O. Brass Band.
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Friday, March 27, 2020
Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet
One of NYC’s best Peruvian jazz bands.
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ZINC BAR
Greenwich Village, NYC
La Traviata
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
February 26 – March 29, 2020
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE
Lincoln Center, NYC
Michael Mayer’s 2018 production stars Lisette Oropesa and Luca Salsi. “Sempre libera degg’io” and “Addio, del passato.”
Betsayda Machado y Parranda El Clavo
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Afro-Peruvian tambor jams with Jewish klezmer.
Axel Tosca
Saturday, February 29, 2020
ZINC BAR
Greenwich Village, NYC
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One of New York City’s best young timba musicians is joined by the legendary voice of Xiomara Laugart for a hot night of Cuban jazz
Xiomara Laugart
Saturday, February 29, 2020
ZINC BAR
Greenwich Village, NYC
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The famed Cuban nueva trova singer (Yerba Buena, Celia Cruz Off-Broadway), a real Guantanamera, joins timba jazz pianist Axel Tosca (Unity) for a hot night of Cuban jazz.
Alex Sensation
Monday-Saturday
LA MEGA FM 97.9
NYC’s top radio DJ is a Colombian who plays reggaeton and Latin trap.
Chris Botti
March 8, 2020
BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Englewood, New Jersey
The best-selling American instrumental artist is Italian-American
Miguel Zenón
Sunday, March 8, 2020
BIRDLAND
Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
Zenón joins the Berklee All Star Ensemble
Tony Bennett
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
COUNT BASIE CENTER
Red Bank, New Jersey
The Italian-New Yorker pop and jazz legend left his heart in San Francisco
Pedro Giraudo
Saturday, March 14, 2020
BARBÈS
Park Slope, Brooklyn
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020
THE DJANGO
Tribeca, Manhattan
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Thursday, March 26 2020
TERRAZA 7
Elmhurst, Queens
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“Best Tango Album” Latin Grammy winner plays Argentine tango jazz
Binomio de Oro
Friday, March 20, 2020
LA BOOM
Woodside, Queens
One of Colombia’s most famous vallenato groups joins Puerto Rican salsa romántica singer Maelo Ruiz.
Maelo Ruiz
Friday, March 20, 2020
LA BOOM NYC
Woodside, Queens
The Puerto Rican salsa romántica singer is joined by Colombian Vallenato group Binomio de Oro.
Gilberto Santa Rosa
Friday, March 20, 2020
BEACON THEATRE
Upper West Side, NYC
“Perdoname,” the Puerto Rican romantic salsa singer “El Caballero de la Salsa” is making the rounds
Maluca Mala
Saturday, March 21, 2020
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
East Harlem, NYC
Washington Heights’ own “bad girl” flips it up with her fly R&B barrio techno
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Sponsored by
Carnegie Hall
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Bizet’s “Carmen”
Thursday, April 2, 2020
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
ROSE THEATER
A modern staging of Bizet’s classic opera about a woman living life on her own terms. Tenor Noah Stewart is Don José.
Nicky Jam
Saturday, April 25, 2020
PRUDENTIAL CENTER
Newark, New Jersey
The Puerto Rican-Dominican-American singer brings his reggaeton
La Bohème
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
April 29 – May 7, 2020
METROPOLITAN OPERA
Lincoln Center, NYC
Franco Zeffirelli’s classic staging of the world’s most popular opera, the tragic love story of Mimi and Rodolfo
Buika
Saturday, May 9, 2020
CARNEGIE HALL
Midtown, NYC
The Latin Grammy-winning Spanish queen of flamenco soul is back in NYC
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Sponsored by
Carnegie Hall
Jerry Rivera
Friday, June 19, 2020
BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Englewood, Bergen County, New Jersey
The great Puerto Rican singer sings hits like “Amores como el nuestro,” “Cara de niño,” “Casí un Hechizo,” and “Que Hay de Malo.”
Flor de Toloache
Sunday, June 21, 2020
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE
DUMBO Archway
DUMBO, Brooklyn
NYC’s Latin Grammy-winning All-Woman Mariachi plays a FREE concert
Las mañanitas a nuestra Virgen de Guadalupe
Fri, December 11, 2020
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
MIDTOWN EAST, NYC
Celebrate the Our Lady of Guadalupe’s birthday with Don Jaime Lucero of Casa Puebla, mariachi and folk dancers
Locobeach
Monday, February 17, 2020
BARBÈS
Park Slope, Brooklyn
The band led by Venezuelan José Luis Pardo (Los Amigos Invisibles, Los Crema Paraiso) plays their debut album “Psychedelic Disco Cumbia”
Latin Music Festivals
SummerStage 2020
[Anticipated]
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
City Parks Foundation announces its 2020 SummerStage lineup
Governors Ball
June 5-7, 2020, Friday-Sunday
RANDALL’S ISLAND PARK
Alessia Cara, Madeon, Cuco and Princess Nokia join headliners Tame Impala, Missy Elliot, Flume, and Vampire Weekend
Winter JazzFest
January 9-18, 2020
BROOKLYN Marathon
Friday, January 17, 2020
MANHATTAN Marathon
Friday-Saturday January 9-10, 2020
Concerts and marathons for jazz lovers and APAP booking agents
Theaters
Most New York Theaters present some Latin music concerts
Madison Square Garden
CHELSEA, NYC
Manhattan’s big arena
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¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
Prudential Center
NEWARK, New Jersey
Northern New Jersey’s big arena.
Barclays Center
PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn Brooklyn’s big arena
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¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
Jazz Clubs
All of these jazz clubs offer live music
Zinc Bar
Nightly
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC
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An old-school underground Greenwich Village jazz club in the legendary Cinderella Club space.
Blue Note
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC
One of New York’s legendary jazz clubs
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¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
Birdland
Nightly
HELL’S KITCHEN, NYC ~ The original jazz club, “the jazz corner of the world,” was one of the places where Latin and Jazz got together
Dizzy’s Club
COLUMBUS CIRCLE, NYC
Jazz supper club overlooking Central park swings nightly at Jazz at Lincoln Center
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¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
The Django
Tuesday-Saturday
TRIBECA, NYC ~ A retro French cellar jazz bar
Jazz Gallery
1160 Broadway
at 27th St
NoMad, Manhattan
Village Vanguard
178 Seventh Ave South
between 11th & Perry St
West Village
Closed on Mondays
Minton’s Playhouse
Nightly
HARLEM, NYC ~ It opened in 1938 and in the 1940s Dizzy, Bird, Thelonious and friends created bebop here
Terraza 7
Nightly
ELMHURST, Queens ~ A former doctor built this really unique Latin jazz club to feel like home in Latin America
Jazz Standard
NOMAD, Nightly ~ One of New York’s great jazz rooms
Night Clubs
All of these night clubs have live music on at least some nights
Barbès
PARK SLOPE, Brooklyn ~ This eclectic French-owned underground night club that regularly books Latin artists was also the original home of Peruvian psychedelic cumbia band Chicha Libre
SOB’s Sounds of Brazil
HUDSON SQUARE, NYC ~ New York City’s oldest world music night club
Gonzalez y Gonzalez
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC
Mexican restaurant with dancing to live salsa bands on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and some Thursdays too.
City Winery
HUDSON SQUARE, NYC
This operating winery is a night club with live music by seasoned artists and tribute bands
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¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater
Nightly
EAST VILLAGE, NYC ~ Live music at this eclectic supper club inside the Public Theater
Le Poisson Rouge
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC
Eclectic night club in a historic space presents everything from classical to rock
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¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
House of Yes
BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN, Tue-Sun ~ NYC’s aerial burlesque nightclub is as close as you can get to the good old party days in public
La Boom
WOODSIDE, Queens
FRIDAY
Touring artists
SATURDAY
Tropical party
SUNDAY
Mexican night
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Popular Latin night club with regional mexican, reggaeton, bachata, salsa, cumbia and vallenato dancing.
Nublu Classic and Nublu 151
EAST VILLAGE, Nightly, Wed Nublu Classic Brazilian night ~ Late night underground experimental world jazz clubs. Young and fun without attitude.
Webster Hall
EAST VILLAGE, NYC
This popular night club has been performing arts venue since 1886
DROM is a Turkish Gypsy world music club in NYC’s East Village
85 Avenue A
between 5th & 6th St
East Village, Manhattan
Open nightly
Continue Reading DROM is a Turkish Gypsy world music club in NYC’s East Village
Subrosa is closed (for now)
Closing Party
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Latin Music blends many traditions
Latin music in New York City is mostly Urban and Tropical from the Caribbean, but the most popular Latin music across the United States is Regional Mexican.
We are taught to see places through the eyes of the last colonizer, but something unspoken ties the entire Caribbean together. Our common Indigenous (Taíno and Carib), then Spanish, African and French roots are still there underneath British and Dutch colonial influences. New Orleans is a Caribbean city.
The African influence on the music of the Americas is much bigger than we are led to believe. In the times of human enslavement and Jim Crow (institutional racism in the United States), promoters repackaged Black culture as White culture for marketing purposes. Even country music of the United States has African roots.
Urban: Hip-Hop, House, Reggaeton, Latin Trap
Tropical:
- Cuban: Rumba, Son, Salsa, Timba
- Dominican: Merengue, Bachata, Salsa
- Puerto Rican: Bomba, Plena, Salsa
- Colombian: Cumbia, Vallenato, Currulao, Salsa
- Venezuelan: Salsa
Mexican: Regional (Banda, Norteño, Corridos, Mexican Cumbia), Ranchera/Mariachi
Brazilian: Choro, Samba, Bossa Nova, MPB, Forró, Sertaneja, Funk Carioca
American (U.S.): Blues, Jazz, Country, Rock, Alternative
European: Classical, Flamenco, Fado
Asian: Flamenco (Romani are from northern India), Soca (Calypso with East Indian influences)