“E-le-le, le-le-le,
A-la-la, la-la-la-a”
What’s up? ¿Qué tal? ¿Qué bolá? Sak pase? ¿Qué lo qué? Kilode! Ça va? Hoe gaat het? ¿Quiubo? Tudo bem? Imaynallam! ¡Che! Now let’s get down…
“Ven ven, Iroko, ven, ven”
Things to do in NYC in April
Things to do in NYC in May
Things to do in NYC This Week ~ April 15-21, 2024
Snarky Puppy Features Silvana Estrada, Sílvia Pérez-Cruz, Gaby Moreno, and Fuensanta for the World Music Institute at Kings Theatre 🇬🇹 🇲🇽 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
Leyenda Plays Latin Pop Classics with Bridget Kibbey harp, Samuel Torres percussion, and Louis Arques clarinet; for Carnegie Hall Citywide at Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
Melvis Santa & Jazz Orishas Sing Afro-Cuban Jazz at the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn Heights 🇨🇺
NYC Immigrant Heritage Week Celebrates the Day the Most Immigrants Passed Through Ellis Island in 1907 🇺🇸
Jackie Robinson Day Celebrates the Day He Broke Major League Baseball’s Color Barrier 🇺🇸
Chavela Vargas Didn’t Just Sing Rancheras, She Lived Them 🇲🇽
Malbec World Day Celebrates the Argentine Wine with French Roots 🇦🇷
Tito Puente is Still The King of Latin Music 🇵🇷
Arab American Heritage Month Celebrates a Great American and Latin American Community
Things to do in NYC Next Week ~ April 22-28, 2024
Snarky Puppy Features Silvana Estrada, Sílvia Pérez-Cruz, Gaby Moreno, and Fuensanta for the World Music Institute at Kings Theatre 🇬🇹 🇲🇽 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
Latin Music is the Rhythm of Life
Leyenda Plays Latin Pop Classics with Bridget Kibbey harp, Samuel Torres percussion, and Louis Arques clarinet; for Carnegie Hall Citywide at Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church in Hudson Heights 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
Latin Dance is How We Pray
Antonio Sánchez, the Many Grammy-winning Mexican Jazz Fusion Drummer and Composer, Debuts His New All-Star Jazz Band at Carnegie Hall 🇲🇽
Latin Theatre is Real Magic
Caña Dulce y Caña Brava Plays Mexican Son Jarocho for Carnegie Hall Citywide at El Museo del Barrio 🇲🇽
Latin Film is Not Hollywood
David Virelles Nosotros Ensemble featuring Dafnis Prieto Plays Cuban Jazz and Classical New Music Curated by Tania León at Carnegie Hall 🇨🇺 🇨🇺 🇨🇺
Latin Art is the New Black
Tania León, Cuban Pulitzer Prize-winning Classical Composer and Conductor, Curates New Classical Music From Around the World at Carnegie Hall 🇨🇺 ~ 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇿🇦
Latin Books are the Poetry of Love
Melvis Santa sings Jazz with Kenny Garrett and Sounds From the Ancestors at the Blue Note 🇺🇸 🇨🇺
Latin Festivals Bring Our Communities Together
Latin Sports Are Fun
Latin Food Has Become American Food
Things To Do in NYC
New York City
Latin Culture
Latin Cultures in New York City
Best of New York
New York City’s leading Latin, Indigenous, European, African, Jewish, and Global cultural organizations support us because they support you.
Let’s support them back! Thank you.
Oye, you are crossing the Kalûnga
The Call of The Drum
Bienvenido a el areíto en el batéy del pueblo Latino. Somos unidos en el tambor.
Escucha la llamada. La rumba ya se forma en el solar.
Yo prendo una vela.
(Welcome to the community gathering in the sacred circle of the Latin people.
We are one in the drum. Listen to the call. The party is forming in the field. I lit a candle.)
Bom, bom, bom, ba-ta-ba-ta, ba, ta-ba, ta-ba
Bom-ba, ta-ba, Bom-ba, ta-ba
Bom-ba, ta-ba, Bom-ba, ta-ba
This call of the drum is the bomba Puertorriqueña sicá rhythm.
Singing begins with the “Diana,” the call to prayer that asks for spiritual connection before we dance,
because by tradition, dance is how we pray.
“E-le-le, le-le-le, A-la-la, le-le-le“
Loíza Aldea, Loíza, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
“E-le, le-le, le-le-le-le“
La Marina, Matanzas, Cuba 🇨🇺
“Dirikirikiriki, Dikiri“
Capotillo 42, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
“Ay, ay, Ay-ay“
San Juan de Ulúa, Veracruz, Mexico 🇲🇽
“Aí aí aí“
San Basilio de Palenque, Bolívar, Colombia 🇨🇴
“Bim Bom, Bim Bim, Bom Bom“
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷
“I like to be in América“
San Juan Hill, New York City 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🇮🇱
{{{ Dudamel arrives in 2026! }}} 🇻🇪
¡ A-G-U-A-N-I-L-E !
El Barrio, Loisaida, Bushwick, y El Bronx🗽
Who answers the call? The community responds.
¿Oye Cómo Va?
We are Indigenous, European, African, Jewish, Arab, Asian, and everything in between.
“¿Oye cómo va? Mi ritmo, bueno pa’ bailar, mulata.
Hey, how’s it going? My rhythm is good for dancing, Latina.
“Andando, andando, andando…”
(Walking, walking, walking…)
“Yo me tiro pa’l solar”
(I leap into the field.)
Dios te bendiga
(God bless you)
¡Ashé!