Colombian-born Pablo Mayor and his Folklore Urbano Project are a pan-Latin cumbia, salsa, jazz, and folkloric band that plays the musical traditions of the Americas. The band plays as a big band orchestra or an ensemble.
Pablo Mayor is an artist-in-residence at iD Studio Theater, a Colombian community theater in Mott Haven, The Bronx. Daniel Fetecua, one of New York’s leading Colombian dancers, often performs with the band.
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Pablo Mayor Folklore Urbano in New York City
Midtown, Manhattan
This Carnegie Hall Family Day afternoon of free, interactive musical activities for children ages 3-10, features performances by Mexican children’s singer Sonia de los Santos, Colombian jazz group Folklore Urbano NYC, and Bronx Puerto Rican DJ Perly; a Cuban Afro-Latin rhythm workshop with Belongó musicians; a Brazilian samba music and dance workshop with Priscila Santana, Gabriele Leite, and Fernanda de Silveira; a Puerto Rican bomba and plena drum and dance workshop with Pleneros de la 21 artists; an immersive art installation by The People’s Creative; a coloring station inspired by Nuestros sonidos artist Sol Cotti; and an instrument-making workshop by teaching artists Bash the Trash. It’s in the Resnick Education Wing at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, September 21, 2024, at 12pm. FREE on a first-come, first-served basis. carnegiehall.org 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
East Village, Manhattan
Pablo Mayor and the Folklore Urbano Orchestra plays a pan-Latin Portrait of the Americas; at Drom in Manhattan’s East Village; on Saturday, November 18, 2023 from 8-9:30pm. From $20. 🇨🇴
New York City Venues
- Carnegie Hall
- Drom
- Flushing Town Hall
- Harlem Stage
- iD Studio Theatre
Pablo Mayor Folklore Urbano
Pablo Mayor is a Pan-Latin jazz pianist, composer, and band leader based in New York City, originally from Colombia. Mayor does his own projects and arranging for legends such as Arturo O’Farrill, Totó la Momposina, Los Pleneros de la 21, and Orquesta Broadway. His music is a fusion of Colombian salsa, cumbia, jazz, and Latin American folkloric traditions. He really is a Pan-Latin artist.
Pablo Mayor is the founder of the Encuentro NYC Colombian music festival, and an artist-in-residence at iD Studio Theater, a great Colombian community theater in The South Bronx.
Folklore Urbano NYC is Pablo Mayor’s Colombian salsa group with cumbia, jazz, and folkloric influences. It’s name means “Urban Folklore” which is good description of how the band brings Latin folkloric traditions to New York City. The group plays in several formats including various ensembles and the 13-piece Folklore Urbano Orchestra.
The band’s “El Barrio Project” brings Colombian salsa to Latin communities in New York. Pablo and the band also do community outreach as teaching artists.
They are one of the few New York bands to play currulao, a folkloric music and dance whose main instrument is the marimba, a wooden xylophone from Colombia’s Pacific coast, where African diaspora traditions remain strong. The dance is similar to cumbia (but unique), but the marimba gives the music a soft, almost spiritual feeling.
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