SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, CANARY ISLANDS, Spain ~ February 2 🇪🇸
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Search Results for: bomba
Latin Mondays at Taj, by Talia Castro-Pozo, is One of New York’s Most Popular Salsa Dance Parties
TAJ II, Flatiron District, Manhattan ~ One of New York City’s most popular salsa parties for more than fifteen years. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
globalFEST is a World Music Showcase at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center
DAVID GEFFEN HALL, Lincoln Center, Manhattan ~ alternative, bomba, folk, R&B, rock, world music. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇩🇴 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇲🇦 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇦
Three Kings Day Parade 2025 Marches Through El Barrio with a Breakfast, Parade, and After Party
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO & PARK AVENUE, “El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇵🇷
Las Octavitas Extend the Puerto Rican Christmas Season
PUERTO RICO and the Diaspora 🇵🇷
Haitian Independence Day is One of the Great Humanitarian Achievements of All Time
January 1, 1804 🇭🇹
Things To Do in NYC in January 2024
JanArtsNYC
Nuyorican Poets Cafe is New York’s Historic House of Slam Poetry
BOWERY POETRY CLUB, NoHo, Manhattan ~ Nuyorican Bowery Slam 🇵🇷
PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan ~ Poetry Grand Slam 🇵🇷
EAST VILLAGE, Loisaida, Manhattan
Tango Beat® in New York City
Manny Vega’s “Byzantine Bembé, New York” is a Love Letter to “El Barrio,” Puerto Rican, and Yoruba Culture
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, “El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇵🇷 🇧🇷
Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours Play a Puerto Rican Holiday Jazz Parranda at Hostos Center
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx ~ The NEA Latino Master and Grammy nominee leads a jazz version of the Puerto Rican holiday parranda tradition. 🇵🇷
Candombe Day Celebrates the Afro-Uruguayan Drum, Song, and Dance Tradition!
DECEMBER 3 🇺🇾
Three Kings Day is the Hispanic Gift-Giving Day at the End of Christmas Season
JANUARY 6 🇩🇴 🇳🇮 🇵🇷 🇺🇾 ~ 🇮🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸
African Diaspora International Film Festival Brings the Many Faces of Mother Africa To New York City
TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Morningside Heights, Manhattan and other venues. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇸🇳 🇺🇾
Danza Fiesta Performs “Baile y Teatro Puertorriqueño” at Hostos Center
HOSTOS CENTER in Mott Haven, The Bronx ~ New York’s Puerto Rican folkloric dance company dances the grand finale to the 14th South Bronx Folk Festival. 🇵🇷
On Puerto Rican Heritage Month, Yo Soy Boricua..!
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Adál Maldonado Is a Great Puerto Rican Surrealist Photographer #AdalWasHere
November 1 🇵🇷
Hispanic Heritage Month in New York City 2024
A meditation on what it means to be “Hispanic” in America today.
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The Birth of Hip-Hop, and You Don’t Stop!
Hip-hop roots go way back, but what is generally considered hip-hop’s birthday was Clive and Cindy Campbell’s “Back to School Jam” block party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in Morris Heights, The Bronx, on August 11, 1973.
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Things To Do in NYC in December 2023
Celebrate the Holidays: Hanukkah, Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year’s Eve!
Things To Do in NYC in November 2023
Things to do in NYC in November include: the Veterans Day Parade and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Celebrate Mexico Now cultural festival, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and the fall art auctions. November is Native American Heritage Month, Puerto Rican Heritage Month, and Hip-Hop History Month. US national holidays in November include Veterans Day, Thanksgiving […]
Things To Do in NYC in September 2023
Things to do in NYC in September 2023 include: New York Carnival, J’ouvert, and the West Indian Day Parade; New York Fashion Week and Fashion Designers of Latin America; Feast of San Gennaro, African American Day Parade; and Mexican Day Parade. The September holiday is Labor Day on Monday, September 4, 2023. Hispanic Heritage Month […]
Salsa Dance
Salsa Dance NYC The New York Salsa Dance Scene New York is the world salsa capital. The Origin of Salsa Dance Salsa originates in the African Diaspora, so you can trace it back to Mother Africa. That’s a long journey, so we’ll start in Cuba, the living heart of Caribbean culture. Most human culture begins […]
New York Salsa Festival 2023 Features Willie Colón, El Gran Combo, Victor Manuelle, Oscar D’Leon and Merengueros Oro Solido
Willie Colón, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Victor Manuelle, Grupo Niche, Oscar de Leon, Jerry Rivera, Tony Vega, Edgar Joel, merengueros Oro Sólido backed merengueros Oro Sólido, backed by a great salsa band directed by Bobby Allende and Marc Quiñones. 🇵🇷 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🇻🇪
BARCLAYS CENTER: Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Saturday, June 10, 2023
ACO SONiC Festival with Miguel Zenón and Angélica Negrón Creates Avant-Garde Puerto Rican Classical Music at Hostos
A primer on some of the young Latin artists who are doing incredible work stretching the jazz and classical music canon in New York City.
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
Sunday, June 4, 2023
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Loisaida Festival 2023 Kicks Off Summer in Alphabet City
Alphabet City starts summer with a family street party.
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Loisaida, East Village/Lower East Side
Sunday, May 28, 2023
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152nd Street Festival 2023 is Basically a Bronx Fiesta Patronales or Taíno Areíto
A Puerto Rican family street fair of live music, dancing, food, artisanal crafts, and activities for little Boricuas. There will be bomba and plena for sure!
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LONGWOOD, THE BRONX
Memorial Day Weekend: Saturday, May 27, 2023
Dance Parade NYC 2023 DanceFest Gets over 10,000 New Yorkers Dancing in the Streets
DANCE PARADE
Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village
African, Afrobeat, Afro-Cuban, Bhangra, Bollywood, Bomba, Break Dancing, Caporales, Carnival, Dancehall, Flamenco, Folkloric, Hip-Hop, House, Jazz, Latin, Majorette, Mexican, Moko Jumbies, Reggae, Salay, Salsa, Samba, Soca, Street, Tammurriata, Tap, Tarrantella, Tinkus, and more. 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇹🇹
DANCEFEST Tompkins Square Park
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Saturday, May 20, 2023
Las Fiestas de Cruz 2023 with Los Pleneros de la 21 at Julia de Burgos Cultural Center
JULIA DE BURGOS CULTURAL CENTER
“El Barrio” East Harlem
Saturday, May 6, 2023
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Banda Iroko Will Make You Want to Dance Like You’re Madly in Love
Banda Iroko is Israeli bassist Avishai Cohen and Nuyorican conguero-vocalist Abraham Rodriguez Jr’s Nuyorican jazz project.
It’s the perfect blend of singing bass and singing drum.
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Greenwich Village
Tuesday-Sunday, April 25-30, 2023
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Black Arts Movement: Then & Now Conference
Angela Davis, Nona Hendryx, Toshi Reagon, Dafnis Prieto, Tavia Nyong’o, Vernon Reid
HARLEM STAGE
Manhattanville, West Harlem
Thu-Sat, May 18-20, 2023
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Xiomara Fortuna, the Queen of Afro-Caribbean Fusion, Plays Hostos Center
Saturday, April 1, 2023
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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Crotona Park East, The Bronx
Crotona Park East is a residential neighborhood in The Bronx. It is also known as Crotona or East Morrisania. There is a vibrant Garifuna community. The neighborhood’s boundaries are: Cross-Bronx ExpresswayCrotona/Prospect Ave | Crotona Park East | Bronx RiverEast 167th St This used to be a cultural center like Harlem and Greenwich Village. We got […]
Things To Do in NYC This Weekend: March 22-28, 2023
MANHATTAN: flamenco, theatre, classical music, mariachi, pop, jazz, salsa
THE BRONX: latin jazz, spoken word, bullerengue, bomba, regional mexican, classical music
BROOKLYN: house music
QUEENS: bachata, merengue, salsa, reggaeton, dem bow, trap, banda, jazz
The Bronx
The Bronx is a cultural forge, a place where legends are made. Hip-hop and New York salsa on2 are from here. We grew up together in the 1970s. Latin jazz and reggaeton passed through. The Little Italy on Arthur Avenue is here. The New York Yankees and NYCFC, New York City Football Club are here. […]
New York Latin Dance NYC
New York Latin Dance NYC is both Latin dance theatre and Latin dance. Music and dance are a yin and yang pair. ☯️ Latin dance theatre: African Diaspora, ballet, contemporary, flamenco, folkloric, jazz, modern, hip-hop and tap. By the way, ballet is a Latin dance. Broadway is jazz dance. Latin dance (social): bachata, bomba, champeta, […]
Rhythm, Bass And Place: Through the Lens Photography Exhibition Shows Music & Dance as the Heartbeat of Latin New York at the CCCADI
CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE (CCCADI) East Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
I’m a Storyteller and This is My Story “Lo Co-qui” Keith Widyolar
Buenas. ¿Todo bien? If I am any one thing, it is creative. Whether writing, singing, marketing, designing, photographing, dancing, or just having fun with friends; I am a storyteller. My first mentor taught me to write. My second taught me that marketing is always having an answer. I learned that lesson myself doing beauty photography […]
Things To Do in NYC in February 2023
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Ponce Carnival 2023 is Puerto Rico’s Carnival
Saturday-Tuesday, February 18-21, 2023
PONCE, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
New York Latin Jazz NYC
New York Latin Jazz is traditional in Harlem and Greenwich Village. Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance are New York’s leading jazz and Latin jazz institutions. Birdland and the Blue Note are famous jazz clubs. The Village Vanguard is NYC’s oldest. Minton’s is where bebop was born. Terraza 7 is Latin. […]
New York Latin Folk Music and Folk Dance
New York Latin dance, music
African American New York
“New York is a secret African city.” Robert Farris Thompson, American historian at Yale University Thompson’s statement is true. Once you learn to read the signs, you see the parallel universe of the African Diaspora, everywhere. To preserve our heritage culture, we hid it in plain sight. New York Latin Culture
City Winery
Latin bomba, comedy, jazz, music, plena, rock
New York Rumba
New York Rumba is the root of much of what we call “Latin Music” today. Rumba means “party.” It is an Afro-Cuban drum, song and dance tradition that is one step removed from the sacred traditions of the African Diaspora and Mother Africa. It’s how the community gathers to express family, faith, community and love. […]
Things To Do in NYC in January 2023
Three Kings Day, Martin Luther King Day
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New York Latin Street Fairs
Gregorio Uribe Celebrates His “Hombre Absurdo” Album Release at Lincoln Center
DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM, Lincoln Center 🇨🇴
Carnival 2023 is the World’s Biggest Latin Party
New York Latin festivals
Hell’s Kitchen NYC
Hell’s Kitchen NYC (also called Clinton or Midtown West) is an old residential neighborhood along Manhattan’s west side from 34th St to 59th St. Many young actors live here. It used to be a center of Irish power in New York City. Restaurant Row on 46th St is popular for pre-theatre dining because it is […]