Feature articles about world-class Indigenous, European & African culture.
Thanksgiving Weekend Opens NYC’s Holiday Season!
Thursday-Sunday, November 26-29, 2020 🇺🇸
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Happy Birthday Eddie Palmieri!
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 🇵🇷
Paul Winter’s Winter Solstice Celebration is Streaming This Year
SOLSTICECONCERT.COM | Saturday, December 19, 2020
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!
September 15 – October 15 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
May You Always be Remembered on the Day of the Dead
Saturday-Monday, October 31 – November 2, 2020
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Special Features
Register to Vote: Free People Know that Voting is the One Thing That Makes Us Equal
Deadline: Friday, October 9, 2020 🇺🇸 It takes 2 minutes
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Lourdes Lopez, Miami City Ballet Artistic Director (Interview)
NEW YORK CITY; Dec 3, 2018; Cuban ballet leader ~ Lourdes Lopez, Miami City Ballet Artistic Director, former New York City Ballet Principal, talks about being a Cuban immigrant, family, opportunity, dancing for Balanchine and Robbins, the future of ballet and who we really are
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INTERVIEW: Julio Bocca, the Baryshnikov of Latin America
Friday, April 14, 2017 YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX DAVID H. KOCH THEATER, Lincoln Center
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The Whitney’s “Vida Americana” Exhibition is a Call to Arts
February 17, 2020 – January 31, 2021 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Meatpacking District, NYC
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Rosa Antonelli, Argentine Concert Pianist, Takes You from Chopin to Ginastera to Piazzolla
Thu, September 17, 2020 at 7:30pm 🇦🇷 🇺🇸 CONSULATE OF ARGENTINA NY Antonelli’s YouTube Free
Remember the Mothers of Emmett Till and Oh So Many Others
Saturday, August 28, 2021 🇺🇸 MONEY, Mississippi August 28, 1955
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Say Goodbye to Diego Obregon Colombian Pacific Coast Marimba Master
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 7pm FLUSHING TOWN HALL FACEBOOK FREE – Martin Vejarano La Cumbiamba Grupo Rebolú Folklore Urbano Sebastián Cruz NYC Gaita Club Harold Gutierrez Freddy Castiblanco
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New York City’s Dominican Day Parade goes National and Virtual for 2020
Sunday, August 9, 2020 at 1pm ABC7NY.COM
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“Liquidus” Tabula Rasa Dance Theater for Our Times
Saturdays, July 25, August 1, 8, 15, 2020 at 7pm YouTube Live Streams Next Day recorded re-runs – Mexican, Thai, Argentine & Japanese -American artists – The performance is funded by the Ford Foundation. Instagram won’t let us post the image.
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Latin Art Blooms in the Queens Botanical Garden
July 21 – September 8, 2020 QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN Flushing, Queens 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇯🇵 🇸🇻 🇺🇸
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Martin Luther King Weekend is Going to be Special This Year
Friday-Monday, January 15-18, 2021 UNITED STATES
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Join the Women’s March on NYC for Women’s Rights & Human Rights
[Anticipated] Saturday, January 16, 2021
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Join Paul Winter’s Summer Solstice Celebration
[ANTICIPATED] Saturday, June 19, 2021 CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE Morningside Heights, Manhattan
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UN’s International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
Monday, August 23, 2021 BELGIUM, ENGLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, PORTUGAL, SPAIN, UNITED STATES
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Leyla McCalla Connects Country Music to its Caribbean Roots
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 GINNY’S SUPPER CLUB Harlem, NYC
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Tania Pérez-Salas Compañia de Danza
March 12, 2020 PURCHASE COLLEGE Purchase, New York
Ballet Folclórico Nacional de México Silvia Lozano Makes Mexican Folklore Come Alive Onstage
Saturday, March 14, 2020 PURCHASE COLLEGE Purchase, New York
Buika is the Spanish Queen of Flamenco Soul
March 12, 2020 CARNEGIE HALL Midtown, Manhattan -Sponsored byCarnegie Hall
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Niño de Elche & Leonor Leal
CANCELLED Saturday, March 14, 2020 WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE LE POISSON ROUGE Greenwich Village, NYC – Experimental flamenco. Niño de Elche sings “Colombiana,” an exploration of the Caribbean influence on Spanish flamenco. Leonor Leal dances.
Los Aurora
Sunday, March 29, 2020 WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE LE POISSON ROUGE Greenwich Village, NYC – An entertaining blend of flamenco, jazz and rock that is part of the Nuevo Flamenco movement out of Barcelona, Spain. -Sponsored byWorld Music Institute
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Rocío Molina is Caída del Cielo “Fallen from Heaven”
POSTPONED TO FALL Friday, March 27, 2020 FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NEW YORK CITY CENTER -Sponsored byNew York City Center
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Los Hacheros
Sundays VERLAINE Lower East Side, NYC – Thursday, April 2, 2020 GONZALEZ Y GONZALEZ Greenwich Village, NYC – Puerto Rican Golden Age salsa for dancing. ¡WEPA! -Original SponsorCarnegie Hall
Maluca Mala, Dominican Hip-Hop
March 12, 2020 CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO East Harlem, NYC 🇩🇴 🇺🇸 -Sponsored byCarnegie Hall
Mariachi Los Camperos is the Orchestra That Put Mariachi on Stage
Friday, March 20, 2020 PURCHASE COLLEGE Purchase, New York
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La Sonora Ponceña
Saturday, April 4, 2020 ANAIS LOUNGE Passaic, New Jersey – One of Puerto Rico’s legendary salsa bands. “Moreno soy,” “Hacheros pa’ un palo,” “Fuego en el 23.”
Flamenco Festival New York City Center 2020
POSTPONED TO FALL Friday-Sunday March 27-29, 2020 April 3-5, 2020 FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NEW YORK CITY CENTER Midtown, Manhattan – A 20th Anniversary celebration of what flamenco can be, by the best of Spain. Rocía Molina, María Pagés Compañía, Compañia Manuel Liñán and a Gala de Andalucía with La Chana. ¡Olé! -Sponsored by New York City…
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Pistolera, Latin Alternative
Valentine’s Day Friday, February 14, 2020 CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE FLUSHING TOWN HALL Flushing, Queens This great Latin Alternative, Mexican-American border band, from Brooklyn of course, is going to make everybody get up and dance. -Sponsored byCarnegie Hall
OCA Dance “Pal’Monte”
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 DIXON PLACE Lower East Side, NYC On the theme of “The Inner Strength”, Kennyth Montes de Oca and the fine OCA Dance dancers invoke the West African mother goddess of the sea, Yemayá, on their way to that special place in the mountains of the human soul. “Olo ho Yemayá, Olo…
Villalobos Brothers
Saturday, February 8, 2020 PURCHASE COLLEGE Purchase, New York (White Plains) High-energy classical pop with a world of musical influences from a base of Mexican style with social consciousness in the mix -¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
Limón Dance Company
Thursday, January 30, 2020 PURCHASE COLLEGE – Purchase, New York (White Plains) The legacy company of Mexican-American modern dance pioneer José Limón performs Limón classics and new works -¡Sponsored by Purchase College!
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
Haiti Alive
Friday, November 15, 2019 PURCHASE COLLEGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Purchase, New York ~ Discover the rich textures of Haitian music and dance in the jazz and classical arts at.'(T)HERE: A Global Festival of Art, Culture and Ideas – Haiti’ -¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
Gina Chavez
Friday, November 8, 2019 PURCHASE, NYC (near White Plains) ~ The Texan brings her Latin folk pop and awesome Austin rock and roll to Purchase College
Nella Rojas
Monday, October 21, 2019 WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE LE POISSON ROUGE Greenwich Village, NYC – Venezuela, Berklee, Limón, IMG, and “Everybody Knows.” The 2019 Latin Grammy winner for Best New Artist is on her way…”Voy, Voy, Voy” –Sponsored byWorld Music Institute
Flamenco Legends: Paco de Lucía Project
Sunday, October 20, 2019 PURCHASE COLLEGE ARTS CENTER Purchase, NYC (White Plains) Javier Limón, the world’s best flamenco producer, brings “the best flamenco group in the world” -¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
Sandy e Junior, the Brazilian MPB & sertaneja superstars, are back!
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn ~ The child and teen stars, among the most popular Brazilian singers ever, celebrate their 30th Anniversary of television with a Nossa História Tour at Barclays Center
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Lygia Pape Brazilian Artist “A Multitude of Forms” (Review)
March 21 – July 23, 2017 MET BREUER: Upper East Side, NYC
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Menkes Flamenco & Theatrical Shoes
Monday-Saturday MIDTOWN, NYC Spanish flamenco shoes, clothing and accessories -¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
