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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

Alex Sensation

Monday-Saturday
LA MEGA FM 97.9
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NYC’s top radio DJ is a Colombian who plays reggaeton and Latin trap.

Buika

Cancelled by CV19
Saturday, May 9, 2020
CARNEGIE HALL
Midtown, Manhattan
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The Latin Grammy-winning Spanish queen of flamenco soul is back in NYC
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Sponsored by
Carnegie Hall

El Prodigio Krency Garcia

Tuesday, March 3, 2020
PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Upper East Side, Manhattan
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Enjoy some saboroso (tasty) “güira,” “tambura” and “perico ripiao” with this Dominican accordion prodigy whose merengue defies categorization.

Così fan tutte

Wednesday, March 4, 2020
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE
Lincoln Center, NYC
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Mozart’s Italian rom-com opera is back in McCermott’s Coney Island setting February 15-March 14, 2020.

Chris Botti

March 8, 2020
BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Englewood, New Jersey
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The Italian-American trumpeter is the best-selling American instrumental artist

La Traviata

Monday, March 9, 2020
February 26 – March 29, 2020
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE
Lincoln Center, NYC
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Michael Mayer’s 2018 production stars Lisette Oropesa and Luca Salsi. “Sempre libera degg’io” and “Addio, del passato.”

Flamenco Festival NYC 2020

POSTPONED TO FALL
FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NEW YORK
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92ND STREET Y
AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER
BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER
DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM
DIZZY’S CLUB
DROM
GRADUATE CENTER
INSTITUTO CERVANTES
JOE’S PUB
KINGSBOROUGH
LE POISSON ROUGE
NEW YORK CITY CENTER
NYU SKIRBALL
REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL
ROULETTE
TOWN HALL
WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE
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The 20th Anniversary of the Flamenco Festival New York is anchored by New York City Center’s Flamenco Festival 20/20

Bulla en el Barrio

Friday, March 13, 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.

Niño de Elche & Leonor Leal

CANCELLED
Saturday, March 14, 2020
WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE
LE POISSON ROUGE
Greenwich Village, NYC
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Experimental flamenco. Niño de Elche sings “Colombiana,” an exploration of the Caribbean influence on Spanish flamenco. Leonor Leal dances.

Bárbara Martínez

CANCELLED
Saturday, March 14, 2020
CLUB BONAFIDE
Midtown East, NYC
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The Argentine-Venezuelan New Yorker sings and dances Spanish flamenco and maybe a little Brazilian bossa nova too!

Axel Tosca

Saturday, March 7, 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

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

Xiomara Laugart

Saturday, March 14, 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.

Los Hacheros

Sundays
VERLAINE
Lower East Side, NYC
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Thursday, April 2, 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

Aventura

Mon-Thu, March 16-19, 2020
Sunday, March 22, 2020
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
Midtown, Manhattan
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Romeo Santos is back with the Kings of Bachata.

Romeo Santos

AVENTURA
Mon-Thu, March 16-19, 2020
Sunday, March 22, 2020
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
Midtown, Manhattan
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Dominican-Puerto Rican Bachata superstar continues with his original band Aventura

Grupo Rebolú

Wednesday, March 18, 2020
“QUE PASO?” RELEASE
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Saturday, March 28, 2020
WILD BIRDS
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
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Thursday, April 9, 2020
GINNY’S SUPPER CLUB
Harlem, NYC
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The Caribbean Colombians get everybody dancing with their new song and video “Que paso?”

Pedrito Martinez

Thursday, March 19 & 26, 2020
GINNY’S
RED ROOSTER
Harlem, NYC
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One of the world’s best Cuban rumba percussionists plays one of the hottest joints in Harlem

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.

Mariachi Los Camperos

CANCELLED
Friday, March 20, 2020
PURCHASE COLLEGE
Purchase, New York
(near White Plains)
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The 2020 Grammy winner for Best Regional Mexican Music Album is the orchestra that took mariachi out of the cantina, to La Fonda mariachi theater, and then onto the world’s greatest stages.

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

Miguel Zenón

Friday, March 20, 2020
HARLEM STAGE
Harlem, NYC
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The jazz saxophonist who is a multi-Grammy nominee, Guggenheim Fellow, MacArthur Fellow and Puerto Rican New Yorker joins the Manhattan School of Music LatinX Jazz Orchestra for an evening of contemporary and traditional Latin music.

Maluca Mala

POSTPONED
Saturday, March 21, 2020
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
East Harlem, NYC
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Washington Heights’ own “bad girl” flips it up with her fly R&B barrio techno
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Sponsored by
Carnegie Hall

Tosca

OPENING NIGHT
Thursday, March 26, 2020
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE
Lincoln Center, NYC
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Sir McVicar’s production of Puccini’s Italian opera stars Anna Netrebko.
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“Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore” (I lived for art, I lived for love)

Tony Bennett

Friday, March 27, 2020
ST. GEORGE THEATRE
Staten Island
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The Italian-New Yorker pop and jazz legend left his heart in San Francisco

Los Aurora

Sunday, March 29, 2020
WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE
LE POISSON ROUGE
Greenwich Village, NYC
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An entertaining blend of flamenco, jazz and rock that is part of the Nuevo Flamenco movement out of Barcelona, Spain.
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Sponsored by
World Music Institute

Madama Butterfly

OPENING NIGHT
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE
Lincoln Center
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Puerto Rican soprano Ana María Martínez stars as Cio-Cio-San opposite Italian tenor Giorgio Berrugi.

Latin Music Archive

Latin Music Festivals

SummerStage 2020

May 21, 2020 ~ No May or June shows. The rest of the 2020 season depends on NYC’s COVID-19 status.

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

More Latin Music Festivals

Theaters

Most New York Theaters present some Latin music concerts

Barclays Center

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn Brooklyn’s big arena
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¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!

NYC Theaters

Jazz Clubs

All of these jazz clubs offer live music

Birdland

Nightly
HELL’S KITCHEN, NYC
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The original club, “the jazz corner of the world,” was one of the places where Latin and Jazz got together. It still is on Sunday nights.

Continue Reading Birdland

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

Continue Reading Barbès

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.

Continue Reading La Boom

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)

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