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New York Latin Folk Music

Latin Folk music and dance are traditional expressions of families and communities. Some artists remain traditional, and some have evolved into urban fusions. In the beginning, all music is folk music and all dance is folk dance.

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December 2022

The Native American Social with NativeTec, Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, and Niamuck Land Trust, brings Indigenous artwork, storytelling, drumming, singing and dancing to Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens on Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 12pm. Free with rsvp, but suggested donation is $10 adults/$5 children. 🇺🇸

November 2022

Leyla McCalla joins Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, and Allison Russel for a banjo quartet of African American women’s music in “Songs of Our Native Daughters” at the Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on Friday, November 4, 2022 at 8pm. From $32. 🇭🇹 🇺🇸

October 2022

New Orleans Haitian singer-songwriter Leyla McCalla celebrates the release of her new album “Breaking the Thermometer” at Harlem Stage in Manhattanville, West Harlem, on Friday-Saturday, October 7-8, 2022 at 7:30pm. From $25. harlemstage.org 🇭🇹🇺🇸

Mexican Pop-Rock-Folk singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade makes her Carnegie Hall debut on the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 8pm. 🇲🇽

Opera and musical theatre producer Beth Morrison Projects presents song cycles by three great African and Diaspora singers: Zimbabwean gwenyambira (musical storyteller & healer) Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa-Nzou Mambano, New York Rocker Yaz Lancaster, and classical electronic film score composer Tamar-kali whose roots are in the South Carolina coastal islands, at Harlem Stage in Manhattanville, West Harlem on Friday-Saturday, October 28-29, 2022 at 7:30pm. From $25. 🇿🇼🇺🇸

June 2022

The Drums Along the Hudson Native American and Multicultural festival is at Inwood Hill Park in Inwood, Manhattan on Sun, Jun 5, 2022 from 11am – 6pm. Free.

April 2022

Germán López plays Latin Folk on the Canary Island timple guitar at National Sawdust in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Sat, Apr 2 at 7:30pm. $35. 🇪🇸

For the Common Ground: Mini-Global Mashup #5 – Southern Italy Meets Senegal, Alessandra Belloni plays Southern Italian music and Alioune Faye, a Griot (West African troubadour), plays Senegalese percussion at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens on Sun, Apr 3 at 1pm. $15. flushingtownhall.org 🇮🇹🇸🇳

December 2021

Aurelio Martínez (Richard Holder/World Music Institute)
Aurelio Martínez (Richard Holder/World Music Institute)

Aurelio Martínez & the Garifuna Soul Band play Garifuna Folk, with NYC’s own Wabafu Garifuna Dance Company opening, for the World Music Institute at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village on Thu, Dec 16 at 7:30pm (6:30pm doors). worldmusicinstitute.org 🇭🇳|🇧🇿🇬🇹🇳🇮🇺🇸 

October 2021

Cuban Nueva Trova legend Pablo Milanés brings his Dias de Luz Tour to The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan on Sat, Oct 23 at 8pm. From $45. 🇨🇺

Miguel Zenón joins Ches Smith and We All Break for their “Path of Seven Colors” record release show of Haitian Vodou music at Roulette Intermedium in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn on Tue, Oct 26 at 8pm. $20. 🇭🇹🇵🇷

Folk Music & Dance New Yorkers

Only in New York City can you enjoy this amount of diversity. Everybody from everywhere is here.

The Folk Music & Dance World

These artists from the United States and around the world have recently performed in New York City.

Chouk Bwa

Saturday, November 16, 2019
PURCHASE, New York (White Plains) ~ Traditional Haitian folk music as part of ‘(T)HERE: A Global Festival of Art, Culture and Ideas – Haiti’ at the Purchase College Performing Arts Center

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Folk Music of Faith and Ritual

Culture begins as an expression of the mysteries of faith and the rituals of belonging to a community.

This is where folk music begins. As it develops, it may lose its connection with faith, or that connection may become hidden to those who don’t know where to look.

Some folk musics become popular and then blend with other musics. Even the most contemporary music like salsa, hip-hop, reggaeton and Latin trap follows this path. It all derives from folk traditions.

We have been human (Homo sapiens) for about 200,000 years. We like to think that we are so very modern, but we really haven’t changed that much.

Diego Obregon Afro Colombian Pacific Coast marimba master. Vaya con Dios. (courtesy Sergio R. Reyes)
Diego Obregon Afro Colombian Pacific Coast marimba master. Vaya con Dios. (courtesy Sergio R. Reyes)
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