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Ama Ríos Flows From Bomba to Reggaeton to Latin Alternative
El Laberinto Series on Puerto Rican Bomba Drummers 🇵🇷🎵
Bomba NYC
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 […]
New York Bomba
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 […]
New York Latin Alternative
Latin Alternative in NYC is a contemporary blend of Rock with Latin rhythms, usually sung in Spanish. It is really a catch-all term for the many fusions Latin artists are creating now. The cover image is Puerto Rican percussionist, composer and leader Ama Rios, from her “PICC Flow Suite.” Ama was the first female Bomba […]
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 […]
Atabal’s “Remenéate” Fills the Heart with Afro-Caribbean Soul
June 23, 2022
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El Laberinto del Coco
Follow us into El Laberinto del Coco of Calle 13’s original percussionist Hector “Coco” Barez (NEA, Puerto Rican Cultural Institute and SXSW), and discover the living folk art of Bomba. (“Bomba” means pump in Spanish. We pump the barril or rum barrel.) The distinctly Puerto Rican drum, song and dance tradition from Mayagüez, is all about connecting with family, friends, […]
El Laberinto del Coco featuring El Hijo de Borikén Plays Hip-Hop Bomba Fusion at La Respuesta, Santurce, San Juan
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Thursday, March 17, 2022
LA RESPUESTA
Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Carnegie Hall’s “Nuestros Sonidos” (Our Sounds) is a Season-Long Festival of Latin Culture
Gustavo Dudamel Los Angeles Philharmonic “Midsummer Night’s Dream” with Spanish narration & Gabriela Ortiz NY premiere “Dzonot” 🇩🇪 🇲🇽 🇴🇲 🇪🇸 🇻🇪
Gustavo Dudamel Los Angeles Philharmonic, Natalia Lafourcade 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Sphinx Virtuosi Black and Latin chamber music 🇺🇸 🇻🇪
Angélique Kidjo, Beninese afrobeat 🇧🇯
Lisette Oropesa, Ken Noda Latin vocal music 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇯🇵
Elena Villalón, Craig Terry, Latin vocal music 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽
Quetzal, La Santa Cecilia, Mexican Chicano rock and alternative 🇲🇽
Ivy Queen, Puerto Rican reggaeton 🇵🇷
St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble with Julien Labro, Piazzolla and Argentine tango 🇦🇷
And more…
MIDTOWN, Manhattan and CITYWIDE
Reggaeton in New York City
Explore Reggaeton in New York City including top singers and bands, news from presenting venues, New York’s reggaeton scene, and its origins.
Bachata in New York City
Discover Bachata in New York City including bachata artists, concerts, festivals, venues, dances, and more. 🇩🇴 🇪🇸
Things To Do in NYC in August 2024
Black August
Colombian Culture in New York City
Explore Colombian Culture in New York City, including: cumbia, vallenato, salsa, reggaeton, art, film, food, theatre, and more. 🇨🇴
Dominican Culture in New York City
Explore Dominican Culture in New York City, including artists, venues that present Dominican culture, Dominican New York City, and more. 🇩🇴
Things To Do in NYC in April 2024
Arab American Heritage Month, Broadway openings
Latin Music in New York City
Explore Latin Music in New York City in stadiums, arenas, concert halls, clubs, restaurants and bars, parks and even on the streets.
Things To Do in NYC in March 2024
Women’s History Month
New York International Salsa Congress is NYC’s Labor Day Weekend Salsa and Bachata Dance Festival
NEW YORK MARRIOTT MARQUIS, Times Square Theater District, and offsite venues in Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇨🇦 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇪🇸
India Day Parade and Food Festival Celebrates Indian Independence
MADISON AVENUE to MADISON SQUARE PARK, Murray Hill, Kips Bay, NoMad, Manhattan 🇮🇳
Africa United Youth Orchestra Makes its Carnegie Hall Debut with South African Composers and Sopranos, plus Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇩 🇰🇪 🇲🇿 🇳🇬 🇿🇦
Peruvian Culture in New York City
Explore Peruvian Culture in New York City, including artists, venues that present Peruvian culture, Peruvian New York City, and more. 🇵🇪
Argentine Culture in New York City
Explore Argentine Culture in New York City, including artists, venues that present Argentine culture, Argentine New York City, and more. 🇦🇷
Flamenco Festival New York Brings the Best Spanish Flamenco to New York City
Flamenco Festival New York 2024 full schedule out of Madrid. 🇪🇸 🇪🇸 🇪🇸
DIZZY’S CLUB, Jazz at Lincoln Center
GRADUATE CENTER, Murray Hill, Manhattan
INSTITUTO CERVANTES, Midtown East, Manhattan
JOE’S PUB, NoHo, Manhattan
KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER, Lincoln Square, Manhattan
LE POISSON ROUGE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
NEW YORK CITY CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan
ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
THE TOWN HALL, Midtown, Manhattan
Instituto Cervantes New York is a Global Spanish Language School and Hispanic Cultural Center
Spanish lessons, library, and wine tastings.
MIDTOWN EAST, NYC 🇪🇸
Bob Marley “One Love, One Heart, Let’s Get Together”
NINE MILE, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica; February 6, 1945 🇯🇲
Diana Damrau Sings Spanish Love Songs for Valentines at Carnegie Hall
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan ~ Love songs by Schumann, Strauss, Rodrigo, Granados, Turina, and Obradors. 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
Candombe Day Celebrates the Afro-Uruguayan Drum, Song, and Dance Tradition!
DECEMBER 3 🇺🇾
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. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇸🇳 🇺🇾
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 […]
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
Things To Do in NYC in February 2023
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New York Latin Theatre
Latin broadway, off-broadway, off-off-broadway, festivals, hispanic alliance
Ponce Carnival 2023 is Puerto Rico’s Carnival
Saturday-Tuesday, February 18-21, 2023
PONCE, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Chinese NYC
Chinese NYC is the biggest population of Chinese descent outside of Asia. NYC has many Chinatowns now, but the original Manhattan Chinatown was formed by the workforce that built the western end of the Transcontinental Railroad (1863-1869). Chinese are Latin through the Caribbean. We were the first to understand what was done to the African […]
New York Latin Soccer
Winter’s Eve at Lincoln Square is No More
2019 was the last
LINCOLN SQUARE
Manhattan
Terraza 7
Terraza 7 is a Latin Jazz club in Elmhurst, Queens, just across Roosevelt Avenue from Little Colombia in Jackson Heights. It’s Colombian-owned, but everyone goes. 🇨🇴 It is one of NYC’s most unique Latin night clubs. It’s more Jazz and Folkloric than the others. Actually, Terraza 7 is more than a nightclub ~ it’s a […]
New Directors/New Films 2021 Screens the Future
April 28 – May 8, 2021
NEWDIRECTORS.ORG
(Reader discounts)
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Frédéric Zaavy
February 26, 2021 🇫🇷🎨📚 Photographers John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler on their newest art book “Stardust: The Work and Life of Jeweler Extraordinaire: Frédéric Zaavy”
The 11th Cinema Tropical Awards 2021 Winners
cinematropical.org 🎞🏆 Tuesday, January 19, 2021 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇬🇹🇲🇽🇵🇦🇵🇪🇺🇾🇻🇪
Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 2020
Friday-Tuesday, February 14-18, 2020
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER
Upper West Side, NYC
Cinema Tropical co-produces one of New York City’s most important Latin film festivals. This year’s films are Argentine, Bolivian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Indigenous, LGBT, Mexican and Peruvian.
Escena Sur Reading Series Mexican, Spanish, Honduran & Venezuelan Theatre
Thu-Sun, Dec 12-15, 2019
Shetler Studios
THEATER DISTRICT, NYC ~ Readings curated by Chilean actors Berioska Ipinza and Pietro González (Law & Order)
En el Ojo de la Aguja
September 7-22, 2019
HELL’S KITCHEN, NYC ~ A Colombian director and his theatre company explore how in the age of the internet and social media, actually communicating has become harder than threading a needle. In Spanish with English subtltles.
Children’s Festival of Taíno culture
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NYC | Sat-Sun, May 18-19, 2019 | Children’s festival | Taíno arts and crafts, dancing and storytelling for the family
Dance Parade New York 2019
FLATIRON, UNION SQUARE, EAST VILLAGE, NYC | Sat, May 18, 2019 | Dance parade & festival | African, Bolivian, Brazilian, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Mexican, Panamanian, Puerto Rican & Spanish dances
Taíno: Native Heritage and Identity in the Caribbean
July 28, 2018 – Nov 12, 2019
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NYC ~ This art exhibition examines the renaissance of Indigenous Taíno identity in Caribbean communities. FREE
Colombia’s World Cup 2018 ends in the Round of 16 vs England
Colombia vs England
England ties with a penalty kick and wins on a penalty kick shootout.
Tuesday, July 3, 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