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Joe Arroyo was One of the Godfathers of Colombian Salsa

Joe Arroyo statue in Barranquilla, Colombia (camaralucida1/Adobe)

CARTAGENA, Colombia ~ The singer who mixed many Caribbean traditions into Colombian Salsa, was born on November 1, 1955.

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Celia Cruz, “The Queen of Salsa,” Popularized Latin Music Around the World

Celia Cruz (Estate of Adál Maldonado / Roberto Paradise)

HAVANA, Cuba, October 21, 1925 🇨🇺

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 2023 (Art/Dreamstime)

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 […]

Merengueras Dominicanas: Ninoshka, Lidia de la Rosa, & Indira Rubiera Bring Quisqueya to Hostos Center

Merengueras Dominicanas: Ninoshka, Lidia de la Rosa, Indira Rubiera (Hostos)

HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx ~ Three legendary women play their own flavors of Dominican merengue. 🇩🇴

Nation Beat Plays Brazilian Maracatu Forró Funk Jazz Fusion at Flushing Town Hall

Nation Beat (courtesy)

This New York Brazilian maracatu, forró, funk jazz band is fun!

FLUSHING TOWN HALL
Flushing, Queens
Saturday, May 13, 2023
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African Diaspora International Film Festival is a World Full of Music & Soul

African Diaspora International Film Festival 2023 (Susana Baca "Memoria Viva"/Mark Dixon)

This is an outstanding curation of excellent films that show the power and resilience of African Diaspora culture around the world. There are American, Brazilian, British, Cuban, French, Guadeloupean, Malian and Peruvian music films.

COLOMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE
Morningside Heights, Manhattan
Friday-Sunday, April 28-30, 2023
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Crotona Park East, The Bronx

Crotona Park Nature Center, Crotona Park East, The Bronx (Jose Terrero/Dreamstime)

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 in February 2023

Things To Do in NYC in February 2023 (Jill Shepherd/Dreamstime)

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Indian NYC

Indian NYC (Gamut Stock Images/Dreamstime)

Indian NYC is NYC’s second biggest immigrant community. New York has many Little Indias. Most Indians don’t consider ourselves to be Latin, but in the English-speaking Caribbean we are. After abolition, we came as indentured servants. That’s where that all that good Caribbean curry comes from. In Trinidad, Indian descent is the largest group, though […]

Olga Cerpa y Mestisay Plays Canarian Folk Music at Carnegie Hall

Olga Cerpa y Mestisay (courtesy)

Thursday, February 9, 2023
CARNEGIE HALL
Midtown Manhattan
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Things To Do in NYC in January 2023

Three Kings Day, Martin Luther King Day
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Uruguayan NYC

Uruguayan NYC (Kobby Dagan/Dreamstime)

Uruguayan NYC is a small community based in Jackson Heights, Queens and Elizabeth, New Jersey. The community center is the Uruguayan restaurants on 37th Avenue between 84th & 86th St in Jackson Heights. Uruguayan NYC News January 2023 The Annette A Aguilar Trio, featuring Uruguayan guitar hero Bele Beledo, plays late night jazz on New Year’s […]

Lalo Rodríguez, Salsa Romantica

Lalo Rodríguez. Courtesy the artist.

Friday, July 26, 2019
SUMMERSTAGE
SOUNDVIEW PARK
Clason Point, The Bronx

Sabor Latino

Sabor Latino (Tsuguliev/Adobe)

Sabor Latino NY is an Ecuadorian restaurant and nightclub in Elmhurst, Queens with a late night scene. It’s one of the best places to see Cumbia and Vallenato bands in NYC. The club is popular with Ecuadorians, Colombians, and Venezuelans. 🇪🇨🇨🇴🇻🇪 Sabor Latino NY Concerts November 2022 Binomio de Oro plays Colombian Vallenato at Sabor […]

The Django

The Django NYC (courtesy)

The Django is a gorgeous retro French Jazz club with live music in the basement of the Roxy Hotel in Tribeca, Manhattan. The venue is so cute that it makes a great date. Latin Culture at The Django January 2023 Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet plays Argentine Tango at the Django in Tribeca, Manhattan on Wednesday, […]

São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Carnegie Hall Debut Features Rimsky-Korsakov & Villa-Lobos

São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Honorary Conductor Marin Alsop (Opus 3 Artists)

Friday, October 14, 2022
CARNEGIE HALL
Midtown, Manhattan
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Bazurto All Stars From Cartagena Play & Dance Colombian Champeta Fusion at Flushing Town Hall

Bazurto All Stars (Flushing Town Hall)

Friday, September 30, 2022
FLUSHING TOWN HALL
Flushing, Queens
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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican Heritage Month ~ Comparsa Talentos Nacional Puertorriqueña (Keith Widyolar/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

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 […]

David Byrne’s “American Utopia” is Broadway for Everyone

David Byrne's "American Utopia" on Broadway (BBB)

Through April 3, 2022
ST JAMES THEATRE
Times Square Theater District
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Johnny Pacheco was La Salsa!

Johnny Pacheco, leader of the Fania All-Stars (courtesy Fania Records)

Thursday, March 25, 2022
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National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair & Book Expo 2021 is at Hostos College

National Puerto Rican Artisans Fair & Book Expo (Ana L. Alicea/PRIDA)

Saturday, November 20, 2021
HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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The Mexican Parade NYC 2021 Brings Chinelos to Murray Hill!

NYC Mexican Day Parade 2021 Chinelos from Morelos (Rodrigo/Adobe)

MADISON AVENUE
Murray Hill, Manhattan
Sunday, September 19, 2021
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The Feast of San Gennaro 2021 is Back in Little Italy

Thursday, September 16-26, 2021
LITTLE ITALY
Manhattan
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The AfriBembé Festival 2021 Celebrates the African Diaspora in El Barrio East Harlem

AfriBembé Festival 2021 (CCCADI)

HARLEM ART PARK
El Barrio, East Harlem
Saturday, August 21, 2021
FREE
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TRAVEL: Las Fiestas de Santiago Apóstol en Loíza, PR is a Festival of Bomba Puertorriqueña

Las Fiestas de Santiago Apóstol en Loíza (Keith Widyolar/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

LOÍZA ALDEA
Puerto Rico
Friday-Sunday, July 23-25, 2021

PROCESSIONS
July 24-26, and 28, 2pm

CARNIVAL SANTA ANA
Medianía Alta
Sunday, August 1, 2021, 1pm
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Take Your Kids on a Bilingual Latin Jazz Jam Through El Barrio with Jazz at Lincoln Center

Ms. Goussy and Ms. Sofía lead the WeBop Family Jazz Party (Jazz at Lincoln Center)

jazz.org/wfjp
ON DEMAND
Through Sunday, July 18, 2021

Go Brazilian with Gloria Estefan: Sangre Yoruba on PBS Great Performances

Gloria Estefan: Sangre Yoruba (PBS)

PBS WNET THIRTEEN
Streaming July 9 – August 6, 2021
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Bed-Stuy

Bed-Stuy, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (James Andrews/Dreamstime)

Bed-Stuy is Bedford-Stuyvesant, a residential neighborhood in north Brooklyn. Everybody calls it Bed-Stuy. It’s been one of New York City’s core African American neighborhoods since the 1930s. It’s very Caribbean too. South WilliamsburgClinton Hill | Bed-Stuy | BushwickCrown Heights Flushing AveClasson Ave | Bed-Stuy | BroadwayAtlantic Ave The neighborhood has a reputation from the bad […]

Clarissa Bruns Sings a Samba for George Floyd

Clarissa Bruns is a wonderful Brazilian samba singer (courtesy)

May 25, 2021
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World Music Institute, Flushing Town Hall & the NY Gypsy Festival Join the Global Music Month World Music Festival

Global Music Month (Oblachko/Dreamstime)

Saturday, August 29 – October 1, 2020
globalmusicmonth.org
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Dance Theatre of Harlem Premieres Geoffrey Holder’s Trinidadian Ballet “Dougla” Online

Geoffrey Holder's "Dougla" Dance Theatre of Harlem (Rachel Neville/DTH)

ONLINE Through August 2, 2020
PREMIERE Sat, July 25 at 8pm
TALKS & WORKSHOPS
Wed-Sat, July 22-25, 2020
DTH SOCIAL CHANNELS

Learn with Carnegie Hall: Jazz, Bomba & Plena, and Brazilian

Learn with Carnegie Hall: Jazz, Bomba & Plena, Brazilian (Carnegie Hall)

Wednesday, June 17, 2020
FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAM

Betsayda Machado y Parranda El Clavo

Betsayda Machado y Parranda El Clavo (the artists)

Saturday, February 29, 2020
Afro-Peruvian tambor jams with Jewish klezmer.

Things to do in NYC in February 2020

February 2020 Calendar (Cla78/Adobe)

Black History Month
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Broadway Week
Off-Broadway Week
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3-12 New York Fashion Week
5-19 MoMA Doc Fortnight
8 VILLALOBOS BROTHERS
8-11 Westminster Dog Show
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14 Valentine’s Day
14 President’s Day Weekend
14 PISTOLERA
14 Neighboring Scenes Film Festival
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17 PRESIDENTS DAY
21 Carnival weekend
21-15 International Children’s Film Festival
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25 Mardi Gras
26 Ash Wednesday
26 ADAA Art Show
27 Dominican Independence Day

Things to do in NYC in January 2020

United Nations headquarters in fog. January 2020 Calendar (Eric Pasqualli/Dreamstime)

1 Haitian Independence
3-5 PBR Professional Bull Riders
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6 Three Kings Day Parade
9-18 Winter Jazzfest
10-14 APAP
12 globalFEST
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17 MARTIN LUTHER KING WEEKEND
17-18 Black Comic Book Festival
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20 Martin Luther King holiday
24-2 Winter Antiques Show
25-1 Master Drawings
26 Grammys

Winter JazzFest 2020

Winter JazzFest (Voloshyn Roman/Dreamstime)

January 9-18, 2020
BROOKLYN Marathon
Friday, January 17, 2020
MANHATTAN Marathon
Friday-Saturday January 9-10, 2020
Concerts and marathons for jazz lovers and APAP booking agents

Things to do in NYC in December 2019

Latin things to do in New York in December 2019

1 Portuguese Restoration Day
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2 Cyber Monday
2 Advent
2 Winter’s Eve street fair
3 Giving Tuesday
4 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
4 Alvin Ailey
5-8 Art Basel Miami Beach
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11 International Tango Day
11 Las Mañanitas
12 Our Lady of Guadalupe
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16 La Posada / La Novena
19 Paul Winter’s Winter Solstice
22-30 HANUKKAH
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24 Christmas Eve
25 CHRISTMAS
26-1 KWANZAA
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31 New Year’s Eve

Mighty Sparrow

Mighty Sparrow. Courtesy the artist.

Saturday, December 7, 2019
NOHO, NYC ~ The living legend of Trinidadian calypso plays Joe’s Pub

Things to do in NYC in September 2019

Things to do in New York in September 2019

1 Brazilian Day
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2 LABOR DAY
2 West Indian Day Parade
3-16 NYC Broadway Week
5 Socrates Annual
6-14 New York Fashion Week
7 New York City Labor Day Parade
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11 New York Philharmonic Opening Night ~ ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’
12 Jazz at Lincoln Center Season Opener
12 Crossing the Line festival
12-22 Feast of San Gennaro
15 Hispanic Heritage Month
15 Costa Rican, Guatemalan, Honduran, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran Independence Day
15 African American Day Parade
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16 Mexican Independence Day
17-30 UN General Assembly
17-13 New York City Ballet Fall Season
22 Queens Hispanic Day Parade
22 Peru to the World Expo
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23-6 NYC Off-Broadway Week
23 Met Opera Opening Night Gala ~ ‘Porgy and Bess’
27 New York Film Festival
29-1 Rosh Hashanah
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Things to do in NYC in August 2019

Things to do in New York in August 2019

2-4 Carnaval del Barrio Street Fair
3 Summer Streets
4 Ecuadorian Parade
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10 Ecuadorian Independence Day
10 Eid al-Adha
10 Summer Streets
11 Dominican Day Parade
11 Battery Dance Festival
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12-18 New York Latino Film Festival
16 Dominican Restoration Day
17 Summer Streets
18 Ecuadorian Festival
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24-25 Afropunk
25 Uruguayan Independence Day
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26-8 US Open Tennis
29-2 NY Salsa Congress
30-2 LABOR DAY WEEKEND

Electric Zoo 2019 features Bennie Benassi & Boombox Cartel

Courtesy Electric Zoo

Fri-Sun, Aug 30 – Sep 1, 2019
RANDALL’S ISLAND ~ Bennie Benassi (Italy) and BoomBox Cartel (Texas/Mexico) will make you dance at Randall’s Island Park

AfriBembé Festival 2019

Vejigante de Ponce at the Afribembe Festival (CCCADI)

Sunday, August 18, 2019
EAST HARLEM ART PARK, NYC
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Carnaval del Barrio brings Aguadilla, Puerto Rico to 116th St

Street fairs Carnaval del Barrio

Fri-Sun, August 2-4, 2019
EL BARRIO, EAST HARLEM, NYC ~ A fun family street fair on 116th St with live music inspired by Las Fiestas Patronales of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

La Fiesta de Santiago Apóstol in Loíza is one of Puerto Rico’s most Beautiful Patron Saint Festivals

Yemayá at the Fiesta Santiago Apostol in Loíza, Puerto Rico (© 2019 Keith Widyolar/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

LOÍZA, PUERTO RICO
Sunday, July 25, 2021
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Things to do in NYC in March 2019

Things to do in New York in March

MARCH
National Women’s History Month
3 Major League Soccer
5 Mardi Gras
5-11 Spring Break Art Show
6 Ash Wednesday
6-10 Volta art fair
7-10 Armory Show
7-10 Scope art fair
7-10 Flamenco Festival
8 International Women’s Day
17 St Patrick’s Day
20 Spring
26-31 Ballet Hispánico
27-7 New Directors/New Films
28-31 Colombian Film Festival
28 Major League Baseball
30 Malena & Lena Burke

Things to do in NYC in February 2019

Things to do in New York in February. Photo courtesy Nicholas Santasier.

Black History Month
1-3 Cinema Tropical film festival
5 Lunar New Year
6-10 Film Comment Selects
8-16 New York Fashion Week
9-12 Westminster Dog Show
11-24 Off-Broadway Week
14 Valentine’s Day, Carnival
18 Presidents Day
21-28 MoMA Doc Fortnight
22-17 Int’l Children’s Film Festival
22-26 Neighboring Scenes film festival
28-3 ADAA Art Show
28-10 Rendez-vous with French Cinema

Socrates Annual 2018 at Socrates Sculpture Park

Joe Riley & Audrey Snyder "Into the ground" (2018). Courtesy of the artists / Socrates Annual.

Daily, October 7, 2018 to March 24, 2019
Dominican French Peruvian & Puerto Rican sculpture
ASTORIA, Queens ~ Annual outdoor sculpture show in the NYC park. FREE

Django Reinhardt NY Festival

Django Reinhardt by William P. Gottlieb

Birdland
Hell’s Kitchen
Tuesday – Sunday
July 10 – 15, 2018

Dance Parade 2018

FLATIRON, UNION SQUARE, VILLAGE, EAST VILLAGE | Sat, May 19, 2018 | African, Argentine, Bolivian, Brazilian, Cuban, Dominican, French, Haitian, Italian, Puerto Rican dances and more

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