Peruvian NYC is a mix of Indigenous, Spanish, African and Asian cultures.
Peru is the heartland of the great Inca civilization and its descendants, but also has Afro-Peruvian from the colonial plantations along the coast. Unexpectedly, Peru is one of the South American countries known for La Salsa.
When human slavery ended in Peru in 1854, one of the largest Asian populations in South America began arriving as Chinese and Japanese indentured servants. Peruvian culture has all these influences. That’s why the ceviche is so good.
Peruvian NYC News
March 23, 2022
Peruvian Music Theatre
Tertulia with Chaska Mori with music by Afro Andean Funk brings Peruvian music theatre to Teatro LATEA at The Clemente in the Lower East Side on Wed, Mar 23 at 7pm. Free with registration. 🇵🇪
Ongoing
Salsa Dance
Dance Salsa with live music at Latin Mondays at Taj with Talia Castro-Pozo at Taj in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $10. 🇵🇪
Latin Mondays at Taj is One of NYC’s Most Popular Salsa Dances
Mondays
TAJ II LOUNGE
Flatiron District
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The Bryant Park Dance Party 2022 is Back with Talia-Castro Pozo
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Flamenco Rumba
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
African Fusion
Thu, May 12, 2022
Cumbia
BRYANT PARK
Midtown, Manhattan
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Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet Plays Minton’s harlem
Friday, April 29, 2022
MINTON’S PLAYHOUSE
Harlem
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Celebrate Inti Raymi, Inca New Year
Friday, June 24, 2022
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Celebrate National Ceviche Day!
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
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Celebrate Peruvian Independence Day, 28 de Julio!
Thursday-Friday, July 28-29, 2022
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Fiesta Peruana 2021 Celebrates the Peruvian Bicentennial in Paterson
PENNINGTON PARK
Paterson, New Jersey
Saturday, July 24, 2021, 1-8pm
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Tony Succar is The Salsa Renaissance Man
INTERVIEW
June 23, 2021
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Previously in Peruvian NYC
Anthony Almonte & Yeisson Villamar play Puerto Rican Peruvian Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Thu, Mar 17 at 9:30 & 11:30pm. $10. 🇵🇷🇵🇪
Lundú plays Latin Alternative based on Afro-Peruvian folk traditions at the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center on Wed, Mar 16 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇵🇪
The Eric Kurimski Trio plays Afro-Peruvian Jazz at Terraza 7 in Elmhurst, Queens on Sat, Mar 12 at 8pm. $15. 🇵🇪
Latin American Art, including a newly discovered Diego Rivera, goes on view at Christie’s in Rockefeller Center on Wed, Mar 2-10 for auction Fri, Mar 11 at 11am.
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Orchestra of St Luke’s presents “Earth Works: Music for our Planet”, an initiative of Peruvian American composer Gabriela Lena Frank, at Hostos Center (Thu), Americas Society (Fri), Snug Harbor (Sat) and the Brooklyn Public Library (Sun), Thursday-Sunday, Mar 10-13. Free with registration. 🇵🇪
February 2022
The 7th Neighboring Scenes Latin American film festival is in person at Film at Lincoln Center, Feb 24-28. $15 per film or $80 All-Access Pass ($20 students). 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇾🇻🇪
January 2022
The 2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone is at the New Museum in the Lower East Side to Jan 23, 2022. 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇯🇲🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇸|🇨🇩🇿🇦|🇮🇳🇵🇭|🇫🇷
The Winter Show antiques fair is at the Park Avenue Armory, for ten days, Fri, Jan 21-30. $30. 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇲🇽🇵🇪🇪🇸
The Winter Show Opening Night Party benefits the East Side House at the Park Avenue Armory on Thu, Jan 20 from 5-9pm. From $500. 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇲🇽🇵🇪🇪🇸
Tony Succar and special guest La India, play Latin Grammy winning Salsa at The Ritz Theatre in Elizabeth, New Jersey on Sat, Nov 6 at 7pm. 🇵🇪🇵🇷
The Havana Film Festival New York opens at Village East Cinema in the East Village on Fri, Nov 5 at 6:30pm. From $20. Grammy nominee Dayramir González plays Cuban Jazz at the Afterparty. From $85. 🇨🇺🇪🇸|🇨🇦🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇺🇸|🇦🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇵🇪🇻🇪|🇬🇷🇬🇧
Talia Castro-Pozo’s Sunset Salsa dance party is at Pier 45 in Hudson River Park in the West Village, Thursdays to Oct 28, 2021 from 6:30-9pm. Free 🇵🇪.
The New York Yankees celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a giveaway of Yankee caps with Hispanic flags for Yankee games on Fri-Wed, Sep 17-22, 2021. From $40. mlb.com
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Claudia Coca: Landscapes of Desire and Oblivion opens at Ethan Cohen Gallery in Chelsea with a reception on Thu, Sep 16 from 5-7pm, and runs to Oct 11. ecfa.com 🇵🇪
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, Sep 15 – Oct 15.
Peruvian Festivals NYC
New York City’s big Peruvian festivals include the Peruvian Parade, May Sumak Film Festival and the Peru to the World Expo food festival.
Peruvian Parade NYC
The Peruvian Parade and Peruvian Festival in Paterson, New Jersey is Metropolitan New York City’s…
Peruvian Parade 2019 ~ Desfile Peruano
PAGEANT, Sun, July 7, 2019
GALA Thu, July 25, 2019
MASS & FLAG, Sat, July 27
PARADE & STREET FAIR Sunday, July 28, 2019
PASSAIC, New Jersey ~ The Peruvian Parade and Festival in Passaic, New Jersey is Metro New York’s big Peruvian independence celebration
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
May Sumak Film Festival 2019
June 14-16, 2019
Friday-Sunday
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC & CORONA, Queens ~ Annual film festival of movies in Indigenous Quechua languages of the central Andes, that screens in New York City and Quito, Ecuador
Taste Peru at the Peru to the World Expo 2018
Sunday, September 23, 2018 ~ Peruvian tastings, Pisco cocktails and entertainment. World’s Best Ceviche Chef Javier Wong will be there !
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Metropolitan West
Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
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Peruvian New York City
There are Peruvian communities in Paterson, New Jersey and Jackson Heights, Queens.
The Peruvian Consulate is in Midtown East.
Metropolitan New York’s “Little Lima” is in Paterson, New Jersey. Paterson is the heart of the Peruvian diaspora in the United States.
The best Peruvian restaurant in New York City used to be our client Raymi, but it’s been closed for a while. Pio Pio grilled chicken restaurants are popular. There are Chinese-Peruvian Flor de Mayo Restaurants in the Upper West Side.
The Crown of the Andes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is Colombian, but the big emerald in the crown is said to be the legendary Atahualpa Emerald from the last Inca ruler. The crown is human sized. The emerald is enormous.
You can find Peruvian culture in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum and Queens Museum. You can find Peruvian jazz at Terraza 7 in Elmhurst, Queens; Barbès in Park Slope, Brooklyn; and SOB’s in Hudson Square, Manhattan.
Peruvian New Yorkers
Melvi Davilla produces the wonderful Peru to the World Expo food festival.
Gabriel Alegría is one of New York City’s leading Peruvian jazz musicians.
Efraín Rozas, the Peruvian musician and technologist, fronts psychedelic salsa rockers La Mecánica Popular and will be in residence at The Kitchen in 2021.
William Cordova is a major Peruvian artist. He is represented by Sikkema Jenkins.
Chicha Libre isn’t very active now, and they are not Peruvian, but they play cumbia based on Peruvian Chica music which is pretty cool. It’s sort of cumbia-surf-rock.
Many of the Andean flute players in New York City subways are Peruvian. Support the arts.
Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet Plays Minton’s harlem
Friday, April 29, 2022
MINTON’S PLAYHOUSE
Harlem
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Renowned poet Rina Soldevilla to read at Peruvian-American Association
A master of enchanting stories set in the Inca heartland.
Peruvian-American Association
Midtown East, Manhattan
Thursday, April 12, 2018
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Surgeons of Hope Art Exhibition & Benefit, World Trade Center auction
Help Surgeons of Hope provide free heart surgery to children with heart disease in developing countries.
New York Academy of Sciences
World Trade Center
Financial District, Manhattan
Thursday, April 12, 2018
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William Cordova
April 7 – May 13, 2017
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Chelsea, Manhattan
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Peruvian – American artist creates art that speaks to Indigenous human rights
Chicha Libre
Monday, September 24, 2012
BARBÈS
Park Slope, Brooklyn
One of the early Peruvian psychedelic cumbia bands in the Brooklyn home of psychedelic cumbia
The Peruvian World
Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa is often in New York.
Peruvian-born Tony Succar is based in Miami. He won Latin Grammy Awards for Salsa Album and Producer of the Year in 2019.
Happy Birthday Mario Vargas Llosa!
Monday, March 28, 2022 🇵🇪🇪🇸
Tony Succar’s Unity Project
If you like Michael Jackson and Salsa, you will love this.
Peruvian Culture
We are famous for ceviche and pisco. The two go together perfectly. We are also famous for our Andean flutes. There is a famous salsa sung by Celia Cruz in 1981 called “Toro Mata.” It’s actually a Peruvian folk song.
Celebrate National Ceviche Day!
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
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Quechua, the Inca Language of the Indigenous Andes
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Peru
Peru is defined by the Andes mountains with a dry coastal plain on one side and Amazonian jungle on the other.
Cusco was the capital of the Inca, one of the great civilizations of South America. Spanish colonizers first controlled South America from Lima.
Peru still has a strong Indigenous culture with Afro-Peruvian culture along the coast. The descendents of the Inca remain in the Andes with different Indigenous peoples in the Amazonian highlands. The coastal capital, Lima, was once considered an African city.
While long suspected, DNA studies have recently proven that South Americans have an Oceanic heritage too. We also have vibrant Japanese Peruvian and Chinese Peruvian communities.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Sunday, May 8, 2022
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Celebrate Inti Raymi, Inca New Year
Friday, June 24, 2022
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Celebrate Peruvian Independence Day, 28 de Julio!
Thursday-Friday, July 28-29, 2022
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Celebrate Pachamama, the Andean Mother Earth!
Monday, August 1, 2022
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Peru
The ancient Inca sanctuary city of Machu Picchu is an icon of Peru, but we have many World Heritage Sites. These include:
- Arequipa, a colonial city with Indigenous influences
- Caral-Supe, an ancient sacred city of the Norte Chico civilization
- Chan Chan, the ancient capital of the Chimú culture
- Chavín de Huantar, an ancient Andean city
- Cusco, the ancient Inca capital
- Huascarán National Park, high Andean mountains around Peru’s tallest peak
- Lima City Center, the colonial city center founded in 1535
- Manú National Park, a biosphere preserve
- Nazca Lines, the famous earth drawings (400-650) that can only be seen from the air
- Qhapaq Ñan Andean Road System, these ancient Inca roads run from Colombia to Chile/Argentina.
- Río Abiseo National Park, a rainforest park with many pre-Columbian sites
There is a lot to see and do in Peru.
Sulpayki
(Thank you in Quechua)