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Saks Fifth Avenue Holiday Windows Brighten the Season
MIDTOWN EAST, Manhattan 🎄
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. 🇵🇷
Our Lady of Providence is the Patron Saint of Puerto Rico!
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Chris Botti’s 19th Jazz Holiday Residency at the Blue Note is a New York Holiday Tradition
BLUE NOTE NEW YORK in Greenwich Village, Manhattan ~ One of America’s most popular instrumentalists plays through the holidays. 🇮🇹
NYC Parades
On Puerto Rican Heritage Month, Yo Soy Boricua..!
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Big Band Holidays with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis features Dominican Vocalist Ashley Pezzotti
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, Columbus Circle ~ A New York holiday tradition with something nice for everyone. 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇮🇱
Day of the Dead, Día de los Muertos, is a Mexican Family Celebration of Life
OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 2 ~ Mexican Day of the Dead, Día de los Muertos, is a beautiful blend of cultures that is beloved around the world. Feliz Día de los Muertos!
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Bryant Park Winter Village is The First Holiday Market of the Season
This holiday market with an ice skating rink and food, is a great place to take your family for their holiday shopping.
BRYANT PARK in Midtown, Manhattan
Friday, October 27, 2023 to March 3, 2024
St Francis of Assisi is the Patron Saint of Italy, Animals and the Environment
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
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Handel’s “Messiah” by the New York Philharmonic is a New York City Holiday Tradition, “Hallejujah”
DAVID GEFFEN HALL at Lincoln Center ~ One of the most popular choral works in European art music. 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇮🇹
Trinidadian Culture
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago are the two southernmost islands of the Lesser Antilles. They are close to the coast of Venezuela. We are Trinbagonian. Public Holidays in Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago’s public holidays reflect the country’s diversity.
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 […]
Our Lady of the Angels is the Patron Saint of Chile and Los Angeles
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Willie Colón Headlines the New York Salsa Festival
One of the core players in the FANIA All-Stars New York salsa sound of the 1970s.
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BARCLAYS CENTER, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Saturday, June 10, 2023
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company “Monarcas” Celebrates the Contributions and Sacrifices Mexican Immigrants Make for the USA
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Mother’s Day
Sunday, May 14, 2023
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Rio De Janeiro Carnival 2023 is Back in Full Bloom
Friday-Saturday, February 17-25, 2023
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil 🇧🇷
Barranquilla Carnival 2023 is One of the World’s Great Carnivals
Saturday-Tuesday, February 18-21, 2023
BARRANQUILLA, Colombia 🇨🇴
Mexican NYC
Mexican NYC News January 2023 The Prototype Festival 2023 of contemporary opera and musical theater presents new voices, including Mexican folk singer Silvana Estrada’s beautiful “Marchita;” at Here in Hudson Square and other NYC venues; for one week Thursday, January 5-13, 2023. From $40. prototypefestival.org 🇲🇽 The PBR Buck Off 2022 professional bull rider’s rodeo […]
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. […]
Trinidad Carnival 2023 is the Mother of Caribbean Carnival
Wednesday-Thursday, February 15 – 23, 2023
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹
New York Latin Pop
Latin Pop in NYC is presented in stadiums, arenas and some of the big theaters. Pop artists become so popular, they rise above their original genre. Thalia is the “Queen of Latin Pop” and Enrique Iglesias is the “King of Latin Pop,” but there are many great Latin Pop artists. Latin Pop NYC News February […]
Il Divo Brings French & Spanish Pop Opera to the Beacon Theatre
Friday, March 10, 2023
BEACON THEATRE
Upper West Side, NYC
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Venezuelan NYC
Venezuelan NYC is most present in Modern Art, Salsa, Latin Rock and Fashion. The Venezuelan Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, is one of the most important Latin contemporary art collections. The Cisneros Institute at MoMA makes the Museum of Modern Art a world center of Latin art. Venezuela has Andean Culture, Caribbean Culture and Trinidad […]
Chelsea NYC
Chelsea NYC News January 2023 The 7th American Dance Platform, is an African American dance showcase, curated by Ronald K. Brown; that features Les Ballet Afrik, B Moore Dance, and Waheedworks; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, NYC; from January 10-15, 2023. 🇺🇸 The PBR Buck Off 2022 professional bull rider’s rodeo brings 35 of […]
Italian NYC
Today, Italian NYC is mostly in Throgs Neck & Morris Park The Bronx; Staten Island; and Harlem, and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Italians are one of the communities that defines New York City and the United States. The big wave of immigration came between the 1850s and 1930s. Many Southern Italians came between 1880 and 1920. Italy […]
Things To Do in NYC in January 2023
Three Kings Day, Martin Luther King Day
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Maria TallChief (Osage Nation) Was America’s and NY City Ballet’s First Prima Ballerina
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
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Mott Haven, The Bronx
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Carnival 2023 is the World’s Biggest Latin Party
New York Latin festivals
Bolivian NYC
Bolivian NYC is centered in Queens and Paterson, New Jersey. Bolivia has Andes and Amazon regions. It was part of the Inca Empire. Spanish colonizers stole the Bolivian silver mountain at Potosí. Bolivians speak Spanish, Quechua, Aymara and other Indigenous languages. Indigenous culture remains strong. Indigenous colonial Mestizo Baroque art is quite beautiful. There is […]
Filipino NYC
Filipino NYC is a small, vibrant community that is strong in health care. NYC’s main “Little Manila” is a five-block stretch of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, Queens. There are communities around the Philippine Consulate in Midtown, around the hospitals in the East Village, and in Jersey City, New Jersey. We don’t consider ourselves Latin, but […]
Nicaraguan NYC
Nicaraguan NYC is a small community. There is a Nicaraguan Civic Cultural Committee at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Harlem. Nicaraguan NYC News January 2023 The Annette A Aguilar Trio, featuring Uruguayan guitar hero Bele Beledo, plays late night jazz on New Year’s Eve morning at the Uptown Garrison in Hudson Heights, Manhattan on Sunday, […]
Things To Do in NYC in December 2022
Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year’s Eve
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Rockefeller Center
Latin art, dance, flamenco, mariachi, opera, pop, portuguese music, rap, rock, salsa, music
Jerome Park, Bronx
Jerome Park is the home of Lehman College, Lehman Center the Jerome Park Reservoir. Latin Culture in Jerome Park, Bronx December 2022 Celebrate the holidays at El Parrandón de la Gran Manzana a reunion of merengue orchestra La Gran Manzana including Víctor Roque, Henry Hierro, Willie Gomez, Pablo Martinez, Victor Brito, Tony Valdez; with special […]
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2022
Thursday, November 24, 2022
CENTRAL PARK WEST, CENTRAL PARK SOUTH, SIXTH AVE, 34TH ST
Upper West Side, Midtown, Herald Square
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Things To Do in NYC in November 2022
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Lincoln Square NYC
Lincoln Square is an Upper West Side residential neighborhood from 59th to 72nd St between the Hudson River and Central Park West. It’s a modern culture and shopping district anchored by Lincoln Center. The Tucker Square Greenmarket offers the fruits of the season on Thursdays and Saturdays. #LincolnSquareNY Latin Culture in Lincoln Square December 2022 […]
Winter’s Eve at Lincoln Square is No More
2019 was the last
LINCOLN SQUARE
Manhattan
Macy’s
Macy’s NYC is one of the world’s largest department stores. Its Flower show, 4th of July Fireworks, Thanksgiving Day Parade, Santaland and Holiday windows are New York holiday traditions. Latin Culture at Macy’s November 2022 The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2022 brings Santa Claus from the North Pole to Macys, down Central Park West, across […]
St Patrick’s Cathedral
St Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown East, Manhattan, New York City’s iconic church. It is seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. America’s Spanish, Portuguese, and French colonizers were Catholic, but Catholicism came to New York City in a big way with Irish immigration after the Great Famine of 1845. Spanish Mass is on […]
New York Carnival & West Indian Day Parade 2022 are Back in Brooklyn!
VIBES WITH VOICE Soca concert
Thursday, September 1, 2022
ISLAND 2 ISLAND Soca concert
Friday, September 2, 2022
JUNIOR CARNIVAL + PAN IN A MINOR
Saturday, September 3, 2022
PAINTOPIA J’OUVERT + AMNESIA Soca & Dancehall party
Sunday, September 4, 2022
WEST INDIAN DAY PARADE
Monday, September 5, 2022
BROOKLYN MUSEUM
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico really is the island of enchantment. Famous for some of the world’s best beaches, the mountain heartland is even more beautiful. We are both contemporary and conservative. Old ways survive, especially in the mountains. The drum is alive in Puerto Rico. The island is so many things you never imagined. It is famously […]
Tito Rojas, “El Gallo Salsero,” was a Great Salsero
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
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Tony Bennett’s Heart Will Always Be in San Francisco
Wed, August 3, 2022
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Paul Winter’s Winter Solstice Celebration 2022
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Friday-Sunday, December 16-18, 2022