Harlem Stage celebrates their 40th anniversary season with the launch of the “Uptown Nights Latin Music Series.” Kicking off the series on Friday, September 22, is Pablo Mayor’s Folklore Urbano Orchestra. Get ready for an evening of music and dancing! Choreographer, dancer, and Harlem Stage commissioned artist, Daniel Fetecua, will teach a pre-concert salsa, cumbia, and currulao class. After the concert, the night continues with a salsa DJ dance party!
Doors open at 7pm and the dance class starts at 7:15pm. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 day of show, so get yours now at harlemstage.org
Currulao is 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.
Pablo Mayor is One of New York’s Leading Colombian Musicians
He 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 Salsa Colombiana
Folklore Urbano NYC is Pablo Mayor’s Colombian salsa group with 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.
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For more information, visit folkloreurbano.com
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