¡Cafeteros! Celebrate the Colombian Parade and the Colombian Flower Festival.
Grupo Niche
Saturday, March 7, 2020
LEHMAN CENTER
Jerome Park, The Bronx
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The Colombian salsa legends reprise their hits “Cali Pachanguero,” “Un Aventura” and more
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.
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
Saturday, March 28, 2020
REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL
Kips Bay, NYC
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Jorge Alí Triana’s adaptation of the classic Gabriel García Márquez story about how history and life repeats itself.
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?”
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.
Colombian Film Festival NY 2020
Thursday-Sun, March 26-29, 2020
CINÉPOLIS CHELSEA
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This year’s plate of Colombian movies in NYC.
Ballet Hispánico 50th Anniversary 2020
50TH ANNIVERSARY
Tuesday-Sunday, April 7-19, 2020
JOYCE THEATER
Chelsea, NYC
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America’s leading Latino dance organization celebrates 50 years with Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, William Forsythe, Graciela Daniele, Vicente Nebrada, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Nacho Duato, Eduardo Vilaro, Andrea Miller, Pedro Ruiz and Ramón Oller.
Saulo Garcia’s Quinceañera
Saturday-Sunday, April 11-12, 2020
REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL
Kips Bay, NYC
The Colombian comic celebrates his “Quinceañera” (15th birthday) at Repertorio Español with a greatest hits show
Colombian Festivals in NYC
The Colombian Parade, Colombian Flower Festival and Colombian Film Festival.
Colombian Film Festival NY 2020
Thursday-Sun, March 26-29, 2020
CINÉPOLIS CHELSEA
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This year’s plate of Colombian movies in NYC.
Hispanic Day Parade 2019
Sunday, October 13, 2019
MIDTOWN, NYC ~ Twenty-one countries from around the world celebrate our Hispanic Heritage on Fifth Avenue
Colombian Parade NYC 2019 ~ Desfile Colombiano New York ¡Cafeteros!
GALA Friday, July 26, 2019
PARADE & FESTIVAL Sunday, July 28, 2019
JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens ~ New York City’s celebration of our Colombian heritage includes a wreath laying, gala, parade and street fair after party
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Junta Hispana 2019
Sunday, July 21, 2019
FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, Queens ~ Family entertainment, games, food and kiosks from twenty Hispanic countries. FREE ~ CANCELLED DUE TO NYC’S DANGEROUS HEAT ADVISORY
Colombian Flower Festival Parade 2019
GALA Friday, July 12, 2019
PARADE Sunday, July 14, 2019
JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens ~ This Colombian flower festival is New York’s version of the Feria de las Flores (Flower Festival) in Medellín, Colombia
Queens Hispanic Day Parade 2018 celebrates our diverse heritage
Sunday, September 23, 2018
37th Avenue
Jackson Heights, Queens
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Argentine, Bolivian, Belizean, Chilean, Colombian, Costa Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Guatemalan, Honduran, Mexican, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Salvadoran, Spanish, Uruguayan and Venezuelan culture.
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Colombian New York City
Crown of the Andes
Daily
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Upper East Side, NYC
The Atahualpa Emerald on this Marian crown from Popayán, Colombia belonged to the last Inca emperor
Colombian Consulate
Monday-Friday
MIDTOWN EAST, NYC
Terraza 7
Nightly
ELMHURST, Queens ~ A former doctor built this really unique Latin jazz club to feel like home in Latin America
John Leguizamo and Alex Sensation are New York City’s most famous Colombians. Dayssi Olarte De Kanavos is our most famous socialite.
“Little Colombia” is around Roosevelt Avenue and 84th St in Jackson Heights. Terraza 7 is a Latin jazz club in Elmhurst/Jackson Heights, Queens that was created by a Colombian doctor. When you walk in, it immediately feels like home.
ID Studio Theater in Mott Haven, The Bronx is a Colombian arts collective led by telenovela star Germán Jaramillo, jazz composer Pablo Mayor and choreographer Daniel Fetecua (Limón Dance).
Cali Salsa Pal Mundo teaches Salsa Colombiana (stage salsa) in Jackson Heights, Queens and hosts the Queens Salsa Congress. Adriana Salgado Neira and Orlando Reyes are some of NYC’s best Argentine tango performers and teachers.
Most Colombian New Yorkers are paisas from Medellín, Antioquia. They are famed for their business sense.
Fernando Botero is the most popular Latin artist in the art auctions. He used to have an apartment and studio in the Upper East Side. There are versions of his Adam and Eve in Time Warner Center. So many people touch Adam’s manhood that it is polished like gold. They say touching it brings good luck.
Juan Valdez in Midtown East makes a great cup of Colombian coffee. Dulce Vida, in the Upper East Side, is Manhattan’s only Colombian restaurant/bakery. You can get a good Ajiaco there. You can’t get the famed soup at most Colombian restaurants because it’s a Bogotá speciality, whereas most Colombian restaurants in New York serve Medellín cuisine like Bandeja paisa.
Empanada Mama makes Colombian empanadas in the Lower East Side and Hell’s Kitchen. Colombian empanadas are fried, but not greasy. Pollos Mario fried chicken is a Colombian tradition for watching football (soccer).
Colombian New Yorkers
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.
La Excelencia
Friday, March 20, 2020
Album release
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This New York hard salsa band popular with dancers returns to the scene with the release of “Machete,” its first album in almost a decade.
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?”
“El Pesebre” ID Studio Theater
Saturday, December 21, 2019
BRONXWORKS BETANCES COMMUNITY CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
NYC’s top Colombians in theatre, music and dance perform a shepherd’s play
FREE
Gregorio Uribe
Sat, September 14, 2019
SOB’S
Hudson Square, NYC
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a Colombian big band.
En el Ojo de la Aguja
September 7-22, 2019
HELL’S KITCHEN, NYC ~ A Colombian director and his theatre company explore how in the age of the internet and social media, actually communicating has become harder than threading a needle. In Spanish with English subtltles.
Salt Cathedral, Colombian pop that will make you muévelo
Friday, August 2, 2019
EAST WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn ~ Colombian pop music makers Juli and Nico will make you move it softly at Elsewhere
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Mateo López “Play” Colombian art at Casey Kaplan
CHELSEA, Tue-Sat, Jan 11-Feb 16, 2019 ~ Sculpture, paper and film exploring play as a means of transformation
# colombian contemporary art exhibition
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John Leguizamo
NETFLIX, Oct 25, 2018 ~ Leguizamo makes it funny, but our ignorance of our own culture is no joke. We have a lot to be proud of – in our own culture and in our contributions to American culture.
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Adriana Salgado Neira
Tango La Nacional
La Nacional
Chelsea, Manhattan
Thursday, April 20, 2018
Edmar Castaneda is a Colombian Jazz virtuoso of the Andean Harp
With special guest Afro-Swiss harmonica virtuoso Gregoire Maret
LeFrak Concert Hall
Queens College
Flushing, Queens
Sunday, April 15, 2018
Continue Reading Edmar Castaneda is a Colombian Jazz virtuoso of the Andean Harp
Esteban Ocampo-Giraldo : Fragmenticos at Gitler &_____
Gitler &_____
Hamilton Heights, Manhattan
January 16 – February 21, 2018
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Nilko Andreas world-Classical guitar and sweaty Rumba Flamenco Pop
Guadalupe Inn
Bushwick, Brooklyn
Saturday, October 28, 2017
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Cristina Camacho is an incisive artist who makes abstract canvases come alive
The Colombia-born New York artist’s “Tracing the Out of Sight” is at Praxis Gallery in Chelsea, Apr 6 – May 27, 2017
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Colombians
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.
Saulo Garcia’s Quinceañera
Saturday-Sunday, April 11-12, 2020
REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL
Kips Bay, NYC
The Colombian comic celebrates his “Quinceañera” (15th birthday) at Repertorio Español with a greatest hits show
Juanes
Sunday, August 9, 2020
CAROLINA DEL PRÍNCIPE, Antioquia, Colombia
The Latin Grammy-winning pop-rocker and Ekhymosis front man was born in a small mountain town in northern Antioquia on August 9, 1972
Joe Arroyo
Sunday, November 1, 2020
CARTAGENA, Colombia
The greatest Colombian salsa singer of all time was born on November 1, 1955. “Rebelión” (No le pegue a la negra), “En Barranquilla me quedo,” “La Noche”
Gabriel García Márquez
Friday, March 6, 2020
ARACATACA, Magdalena, Colombia
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The Nobel Prize-winning father of Magical Realism was born on March 6, 1927.
Maluma
Friday, October 4, 2019
CHELSEA, NYC ~ The sexy Colombian reggaeton and latin trap singer is stopping in New York at Madison Square Garden
J Balvin
Sun, September 29, 2019
CHELSEA, NYC ~ The Colombian Reggaeton star brings his pop art infused Arcoíris Tour (Rainbow Tour) to Madison Square Garden
Shakira
Shakira knows how to blackmail.
Radio City Music Hall
Midtown, Manhattan
Monday, August 20, 2018
Systema Solar
SummerStage
Queensbridge Park
Queensbridge, Queens
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Colombian Culture
Cumbia is originally Colombian from the Caribbean region.
Salsa Colombiana is also Caribbean, especially from Barranquilla, Atlantico, but is now centered in Cali, Valle de Cauca. Cali has a unique stage salsa culture.
There is a strong group of reggaetoneros, including some Puerto Ricans, in Medellín, Antioquia.
Medellín has strong tango culture. Paisas even speak Castellano like Argentines. Tango icon Carlos Gardel died in a plane crash on his way to a performance in Medellín.
Colombians are crazy for Christmas nativities. Moms compete to have the best one in the neighborhood.
World Chocolate Day
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
UPPER AMAZON
Chocolate, made from cocoa, is native to Colombia and Venezuela, but was domesticated in Guatemala and Mexico. Spanish priests took it to Europe.
Simón Bolívar
Friday, July 24, 2020
CARACAS, Venezuela
The founding father of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela, “El Libertador” was born on July 24, 1783
International Coffee Day
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Is your favorite coffee Brazilian, Colombian, Costa Rican, French, Guatemalan, Honduran, Italian, Mexican, Nicaraguan or Peruvian?
La Novena de Aguinaldos
December 16-24
The nine-day prayer cycle leading to Noche Buena (Christmas Eve) is a Colombian, Ecuadorian and Venezuelan Christmas tradition
FIFA World Soccer Rankings
December 19, 2019
USA women are #1. 70% of the top ten men’s teams are Latin: France, Brazil, Uruguay, Portugal, Spain, Argentina and Colombia
Reggaeton
Latin rap, by the Jamaican diaspora in Panama, jumped to New York, and developed in Puerto Rico before going worldwide. Colombians are making great reggaeton now too. “Tu Pun Pun, mami-mami, no…”
Colombia
Colombia has many distinct regions including Caribbean and Pacific coasts, Andes mountains, Llanos plains and Amazon rainforests. The cultural diversity that goes with that is surprising for a single nation. It is also one of the world’s most biodiverse countries.
Ironically the longest civil war in the Americas (since 1964) kept many regions from developing so old ways remain. Today you can travel through most of the country and discover the riches of Colombian culture.
Barranquilla Carnival 2021
Saturday-Tuesday, February 13-16, 2021
BARRANQUILLA, Colombia
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The world’s second biggest carnival festival is a unique blend of Colombian, Caribbean and Latin culture.
La Virgen de Chiquinquirá
Thursday, July 9, 2020
CHIQUINQUIRÁ, Colombia
The patron saint of Colombia received her Canonical Coronation on July 9, 1919
Colombian Independence Day, 20 de Julio
Monday, July 20, 2020
BOGOTÁ ~ The Colombian national day celebrates the people’s protests which inspired the formation of a government independent from Spain on July 20, 1810
Día de las Velitas
Monday, December 7, 2020
COLOMBIA ~ Across the country, and famously in Medellín, people light rows and rows of candles to commemorate the people’s anticipation of the Vatican’s proclamation of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, 1854
Our Lady of Candelaria
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
TENERIFE, CANARY ISLANDS, Spain
The patron saint of Tenerife in the Spanish African islands, and Cartagena, Colombia is a Black Madonna beloved across the Latin world
The kids are dancing Colombian cumbia, the traditional dance of the Colombian Caribbean. The boy wears campesino (farmer) clothes and holds a traditional Colombian hat on the left. The girl wears a pollera, the Andalusián peasant dress that Colombian women wore in colonial times. Beauty is greatly valued in Colombia, so the girl wears a beauty queen’s crown.
Dios te bendiga.