One of the great flamenco singers makes Latin American music his own.
THE TOWN HALL in Midtown, Manhattan
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 October 2023 include the: Panamanian Parade, Hispanic Day Parade, Italian Day Parade, Indigenous Parade, Jackson Heights Halloween Parade, and the Village Halloween Parade. The October holiday is Indigenous Peoples Day / Italian Heritage Day (formerly Columbus Day, but the man and the colonization he triggered was pure evil). Latin […]
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 […]
Bomba is a Puerto Rican drum, song, and dance tradition of the African Diaspora, but today it is a communal expression of family, faith, community, and love for all Puerto Ricans. Bomba rhythms mixed with Cuban son into salsa. In NYC, bomba is performed and taught by folkloric drum, song and dance groups such as […]
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Saturday, May 20, 2023
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
The East Village NYC is a bohemian neighborhood east of Greenwich Village that is gentrifying. It’s where the Broadway hit musical “Rent” was set. It includes Alphabet City, Manhattan’s eastern rump. St Mark’s Place (8th St) was NYC’s punk street in the 1980s. You still see punkers around. Their mohawks are a bit quaint now. […]
Timba in NYC is Cuban dance music that came off the streets of Havana in the 1970s. In Cuba, Son evolved into Timba. In NYC, it evolved into Salsa. They are different branches of the same root. Timba adds Funk, Rock, Jazz, and another round of Afro-Cuban percussion influences. It has more bass drum, and […]
Bomba in NYC is a Puerto Rican drum, song, and dance tradition with African roots. The barille drum used to be made from old rum barrels. “Bomba” in Spanish means “pump.” We pump the barille. The Bomba dancer challenges the lead drummer to match their dance moves. Cuban Rumba Columbia plays a similar game. Women […]
Zinc Bar is a classic underground Greenwich Village Jazz club in the historic space of the former Cinderella Club. The owners are New York Argentines. 🇦🇷 December 2022 Brazilian pianist Jovino Santos Neto plays Jazz at Zinc Bar in Greenwich Village, on Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 7 & 8:30pm. From $25. 🇧🇷 November 2022 […]
Things to do in NYC in June 2022 include SummerStage, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, NY Puerto Rico Week and the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade and NYC Pride Parade. June is NYC Pride Month. It’s also Caribbean Heritage Month and African-American Music Appreciation Month. June is a great month to visit because the […]
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 […]
African NYC isn’t necessarily Latin, but many Latins are part of the African Diaspora. African NYC is North, South, Central, East, and West African. The African Diaspora is African American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin, Afro-European and Afro-Asian. Small-minded thinkers see us as all the same, but we are all different. We are many branches with the same […]
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