Things to do in NYC in February 2024 include:
- LATIN ART ~ Master Drawings New York (Jan 27 – Feb 3), Byenveni (Feb 15 – Nov 14), Dominican Yorks (Feb 23), Outsider Art Fair (Feb 29 – Mar 3).
- LATIN DANCE ~ New York City Ballet (Jan 23 – Mar 3), Dance on Camera (Feb 9-12), Limón Dance Company (Feb 17), Alonzo King LINES Ballet (Feb 22-24), Sankofa Danzafro (Feb 27 -Mar 3) Latin Mondays at Taj (Mondays), Nélida Tirado flamenco (Wednesdays), Tango La Nacional (Thursdays), El Destino tango (Sundays).
- LATIN FASHION ~ New York Fashion Week (Feb 9-14), Fashion Designers of Latin America ~ FDLA (Feb 9).
- LATIN FESTIVALS ~ Candelaria (Feb 2), Oyá (Feb 2), Maman Brigitte (Feb 2), Lunar New Year (Feb 10-25), Lourdes (Feb 11), Carnival Tuesday (Feb 13), Valentines (Feb 14), Ash Wednesday (Feb 14), Lent (Feb 14 – Mar 28), Lunar New Year Parade (Feb 25).
- LATIN FILM ~ Kicking + Screening (Feb 8-10), Dance on Camera (Feb 9-12), Doc Fortnight (Feb 22 – Mar 7), Rendez-Vous with French Cinema (Feb 29 – Mar 10). 🇫🇷
- LATIN FOOD ~ NYC Restaurant Week (Jan 16-Feb 4), National Margarita Day (Feb 22).
- LATIN MUSIC ~ Locobeach (Feb 2), Orchestra of St Luke’s (Feb 8 & 27), Marc Anthony (Feb 10), Gran Combo de Puerto Rico (Feb 10), Leyla McCalla (Feb 16-18), Los Tigres del Norte (Feb 17), Jerry Rivera (Feb 17), iLe (Feb 18), Paco de Lucía Legacy Festival (Feb 20-24), Binomio de Oro (Feb 24), Enanitos Verdes (Feb 25), Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (Sundays).
- LATIN PARADES ~ National Puerto Rican Day Parade Scholarship Applications (Feb)
- LATIN SPORTS ~ Major League Soccer Season (Feb 21).
- LATIN THEATRE ~ Théâtre de la Dame de Coeur (Feb 29-Mar 2), NYC Broadway Week (Jan 16-Feb 4), NYC Off-Broadway Week (Feb 12 – Mar 3)
February holidays are : Presidents Day (Feb 19), NYC Schools Midwinter Recess (Feb 19-23).
February is Black History Month.
Famous Latin and Black Birthdays: Langston Hughes (Feb 1), Shakira (Feb 2), Rosa Parks (Feb 4), Bob Marley (Feb 6), Tite Curet Alonso (Feb 12), Frederick Douglass (Feb 14), Julia de Burgos (Feb 17).
National Days include: Grenada (Feb 7), Dominican Republic (Feb 27).
The first week of February is the cheapest time to visit New York City with deals on travel, hotels, food, and events.
February weather is late winter, and New York City’s snowiest month. It’s still a great time to visit. You just have to plan where you are going because it’s cold outside and may be slushy after storms. Bring a jacket, hat, scarf, and gloves, so you can layer.
Thanks to our February 2024 Sponsors: 92nd Street Y, Ballet Hispánico, Carnegie Hall
Things To Do in NYC February 1-7, 2024
February is Black History Month. Our biggest lesson, from over a decade of this project, is how African our culture is ~ both Latin culture and United States culture.
Langston Hughes was a Jazz Poet Who Spoke of Rivers 🇺🇸
Our Lady of Candelaria is the Patron Saint of Tenerife, Canary Islands; Miners, and the African Diaspora 🇪🇸 🇧🇴 🇨🇴 🇬🇹 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷
Oyá is the Yoruba Orisha of Storms of Wind and Lightning, of Death and Rebirth 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
Maman Brigitte is the Haitian Loa of Death and Life 🇭🇹 🇺🇸
Happy Birthday Shakira 🇨🇴
Rosa Parks Kept Her Cool Which Made Her the Mother of the Freedom Movement 🇺🇸
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Jazz Poet
Langston Hughes, the jazz poet who spoke of rivers, was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1901. He lived in Mexico for a short time with his father, and spoke Spanish. In fact, he translated beloved Spanish poet Federico García Lorca and Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. “My soul has grown deep like the rivers” from “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1921). 🇺🇸
Latin Art
“The Psychic Landscape,” a Domingo Comms exhibition of Latin art that blurs the boundaries between representation and abstraction, opens with a reception at NYC Culture Club in the World Trade Center Oculus in Manhattan’s Financial District; on Thursday, February 1, 2024, from 6-9pm. The show runs to March 3. nyccultureclub.com 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
Afro-Brazilian Tap Dance
Music from the Sole, led by Leonardo Sandoval and Gregory Richardson, blends tap, samba, house, and Brazilian Carnival in “I Didn’t Come to Stay,” a Guggenheim commission that explores tap dance’s connections to the African Diaspora; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursday, February 1, 2024 at 8pm. From $27. 🇧🇷
Tango Dance
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, February 2, 2024
Today is a big day in the African diaspora. We celebrate Candelaria, Oyá, and Maman Brigitte.
African Diaspora Patron Saint
Our Lady of Candelaria is the Patron Saint of Tenerife, Canary Islands; Miners, and the African Diaspora. 🇪🇸 🇧🇴 🇨🇴 🇬🇹 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇷
Yoruba Orisha
Oyá is the Yoruba orisha of great storms with wind and lightning that bring death and rebirth. 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
Haitian Loa
Maman Brigitte is the Haitian loa of death and rebirth. 🇭🇹 🇺🇸
Colombian Pop Music
Shakira, Colombia’s most famous pop star, was born in Barranquilla, Colombia on February 2, 1977. 🇨🇴
Mexican Fandango
The 8th Fandango de la Candelaria en Nueva York is a Mexican fandango in honor of the Virgen de la Candelaria who is important in México; at the Bronx Music Heritage Center in Crotona Park East, The Bronx; on Friday, February 2, 2024 from 6-9pm. FREE. FB @bxmusic 🇲🇽
Fandangos are really fun. Take your dance shoes. “We’re not drumming, we’re stomping our feet.”
Venezuelan Cumbia Pop Latin Disco
Locobeach plays New York Venezuelan cumbia pop at Sleepwalk in East Williamsburg; on Friday, February 2, 2024 at 7pm. $23. 🇻🇪
Afro-Brazilian Tap Dance
Music from the Sole, led by Leonardo Sandoval and Gregory Richardson, blends tap, samba, house, and Brazilian Carnival in “I Didn’t Come to Stay,” a Guggenheim commission that explores tap dance’s connections to the African Diaspora; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday, February 2, 2024 at 8pm. From $27. 🇧🇷
Ballet
New York City Ballet dances a “New Combinations” program of Justin Peck’s “Rotunda,” new Tiler Peck, and Ratmansky’s “Odesa;” in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; on Friday, February 2, 2024 at 8pm. From $40.
Urban Latin Dance Party
Latin Night features Colombian DJ Lecktra Fire, Dominican DJ Alex Viva, and Dominican DJ Boom; spinning Latin Urban music for dancing at La Boom, the Latin night club in Woodside, Queens; on Friday, February 2, 2024. 10pm-4am. Free guest list before midnight, $20 after. 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇩🇴
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 10:30am & 1:30pm. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Ballet
New York City Ballet dances a “Tribute to Robbins” program with “Fancy Free,” “In the Night,” and “The Four Seasons;” in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; on Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 2pm. From $40.
Afro-Brazilian Tap Dance
Music from the Sole, led by Leonardo Sandoval and Gregory Richardson, blends tap, samba, house, and Brazilian Carnival in “I Didn’t Come to Stay,” a Guggenheim commission that explores tap dance’s connections to the African Diaspora; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 2pm & 8pm. From $27. 🇧🇷
Flamenco
A Palo Seco Flamenco Company, by Rebeca Tomas, dances traditional and contemporary flamenco, including previews of “Fieras,” in the Repertory Theater at Hostos Center at Hostos Community College in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Saturday, February 3, 2024, at 7:30pm. $10. Students and under 18, $5. 🇪🇸
Jamaican Reggae
The CCB Reggae All-Stars play Jamaican reggae in a Bob Marley birthday tribute at Sony Hall in the Times Square Theater District; on Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 3:30pm & 7:30pm. From $30. 🇯🇲
Ballet
New York City Ballet dances a “Wheeldon + Martins + Peck” program with Wheeldon’s “Polyphonia,” Martins’ “Barber Violin Concerto,” and Justin Peck’s “The Times Are Racing;” in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; on Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 8pm. From $40.
Urban Bachata Party
Spanglish Saturdays urban and latin dance party features Una Noche de Aventura with the band’s bassist Max Agende and Dominican DJ Camilo, Colombian DJ Pereira, and Chilean DJ Manny Mills; spinning dem bow, hip-hop, reggaeton, trap; with bachata, cumbia, merengue, and salsa; is at La Boom, the Latin night club in Woodside, Queens; on Saturdays. 10pm – 4am. Free guest list before midnight, $25 after. 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇱
Sunday, February 4, 2024
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 10:30am & 1:30pm. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Afro-Brazilian Tap Dance
Music from the Sole, led by Leonardo Sandoval and Gregory Richardson, blends tap, samba, house, and Brazilian Carnival in “I Didn’t Come to Stay,” a Guggenheim commission that explores tap dance’s connections to the African Diaspora; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 2pm. From $27. 🇧🇷
Ballet
New York City Ballet dances a “New Combinations” program of Justin Peck’s “Rotunda,” new Tiler Peck, and Ratmansky’s “Odesa;” in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; on Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 3pm. From $40.
Argentine Tango
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Latin Jazz
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $30+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Mexican Banda
La Adictiva plays Mexican banda sinaloense; at La Boom, the Latin night club in Woodside, Queens; on Sunday, February 4, 2024. Doors 9pm. Ends 4am. $60. 🇲🇽
Things To Do in NYC February 5-11, 2024
In the Latin world, it’s Carnival Week. In the Colonial Era, Carnival was the only time we could celebrate our heritage traditions. It isn’t about parades. Carnival is about community, and sharing our traditions with our children. It’s also a true celebration of freedom.
Monday, February 5, 2024
Salsa Dance
Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Jamaican Music
Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae legend, was born in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica; on February 6, 1945. “Let’s get together and feel all right.” 🇯🇲
Ballet
New York City Ballet dances an “All Balanchine” program with “The Four Temperaments,” and “Liebeslieder Walzer;” in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; on Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $40.
Spanish Love Songs
German soprano Diana Damrau sings Spanish love songs by Rodrigo, Granados, Turina, and Obradors with German and Austrian love songs by Robert and Clara Schumann and Richard Strauss; in the Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 8pm. From $19. carnegiehall.org 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
National Day
Grenada Independence Day is February 7, 1974. 🇬🇩
Ballet
New York City Ballet dances an “All Balanchine” program with “The Four Temperaments,” and “Liebeslieder Walzer;” in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, February 7, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $40.
Traditional Flamenco Dance
Nélida Tirado dances traditional flamenco at Chez Messy, a Spanish tapas restaurant in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Wednesdays from 8:30-10:30pm. 🇵🇷
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Broadway Singer Talk
Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald talks and sings through her 30-year career with Broadway music director Andy Einhorn; in Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y in the Upper East Side; on Thursday-Friday, February 8-9, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $65. 🇺🇸
Ballet
New York City Ballet dances a “New Combinations” program of Justin Peck’s “Rotunda,” new Tiler Peck, and Ratmansky’s “Odesa;” in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, February 9, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $40.
Classical Music French Canadian Conductor
Orchestra of St Luke’s, led by French Canadian conductor Bernard Labadie, with German violin soloist Isabelle Faust, plays Mozart Symphony No. 40 and Brahms Violin Concerto; on the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in Midtown; on Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 8pm. 🇨🇦
Tango Dance
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, February 9, 2024
Latin Fashion
New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2024 fashion shows and presentations are at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea, Manhattan, and around town; from Friday-Wednesday, February 9-14.
Latin Fashion
FDLA ~ Fashion Designers of Latin America fashion shows are Friday, February 9, 2024. fdla.co
Dance Films
The Dance on Camera dance film festival is at Film at Lincoln Center; from February 9-12, 2024.
Broadway Singer Talk
Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald talks and sings through her 30-year career with Broadway music director Andy Einhorn; in Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y in the Upper East Side; on Thursday-Friday, February 8-9, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $65. 🇺🇸
Dominican Merengue
El Rubio Acordeón y Sus Amigos, one of the hottest young merengue bands in the Dominican Republic, plays the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Friday, February 9, 2024 at 8pm. From $79. 🇩🇴
Venezuelan and Puerto Rican Salsa
Oscar D’León sings Venezuelan salsa with special guest Puerto Rican salsero Christian Alicea; in Prudential Hall at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark, New Jersey; on Friday, February 9, 2024 at 8pm. From $60. 🇻🇪 🇵🇷
Saturday, February 10, 2024
East Asian Festival
Lunar New Year 2024, the Year of the Dragon, is the East Asian spring festival. 🇨🇳🇰🇭🇰🇷🇰🇵🇯🇵🇲🇳🇵🇭🇸🇬🇹🇼🇹🇭🇺🇸
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 10:30am & 1:30pm. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
East Asian Cultural Festival
Lunar New Year Firecracker Ceremony and Cultural Festival is a firecracker lighting ceremony with Chinese dance, culture, and food; at Sara D. Roosevelt Park at Grand St in Manhattan’s Lower East Side (Manhattan Chinatown); on Saturday, February 10, 2024 from 11am – 3:30pm. FREE. 🇨🇳 🇹🇼 🇰🇭 🇰🇷 🇰🇵 🇯🇵 🇲🇳 🇵🇭 🇸🇬 🇹🇭 🇺🇸
Afro-Colombian Drum Circle
La Rueda de Oro (The Golden Circle) is an Afro-Colombian drum circle workshop/performance with spoken word; at the Bronx Music Heritage Center in Crotona Park East, The Bronx; on Saturday, February 10, 2024 from 4-8:30pm. FREE. FB @bxmusic 🇨🇴
Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican Salsa
El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Rey Ruíz and Wilfrido Vargas, play Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican salsa; at Radio City Music Hall in Rockefeller Center; on Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 8pm. From $129. 🇵🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴
Puerto Rican Salsa and Bachata
Marc Anthony “Historia Tour 2024” brings Puerto Rican salsa and a little bachata to Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey; on Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 8pm. From $77. 🇵🇷
Dominican Merengue for Valentines
Merengue con Amor 2 brings Alex Bueno, Monchy Capricho, Bonny y Richie Cepeda, Carlos David, Pablo Martinez, and Peter Cruz; to Lehman Center in Jerome Park, The Bronx; on Saturday February 10, 2024 at 9pm. From $43. 🇩🇴
Urban Latin Dance Party
The Spanglish Saturdays urban and latin dance party; of dem bow, hip-hop, reggaeton, trap; with bachata, cumbia, merengue, and salsa; is at La Boom, the Latin night club in Woodside, Queens; on Saturdays. 10pm – 4am. Free guest list before midnight. $26 after. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Sunday, February 11, 2024
Patron Saint of Healing
Our Lady of Lourdes is the patron saint of healing. 🇫🇷
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 10:30am & 1:30pm. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Mexican Christian Concert
Jesús Adrián Romero “Terrenal Tour” brings Mexican Christian music to the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 8pm (6:30pm doors). From $66. 🇲🇽
Latin Jazz
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $30+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC February 12-18, 2024
Tite Curet Alonso, The Salsa Poet, Wrote Many Salsa Hits, But is Not Credited 🇵🇷
Carnival Carnaval Carnevale is the World’s Biggest Latin Party
Valentines Day in New York City Celebrates Romantic Love or Freedom From It 🇮🇹
Frederick Douglass Brought the Meaning of the U.S. Constitution to Life 🇺🇸
Ash Wednesday Marks the Start of Lent 🇮🇹
Lent is the Catholic Spiritual Preparation for Easter 🇮🇹
Monday, February 12, 2024
Salsa Legend
“Tite” Curet Alonso, the salsa poet who wrote many salsa hits without credit, was born in Guayama, one of the Puerto Rican towns famous for its Afro-Puerto Rican culture, on February 12, 1926. 🇵🇷
Latin Off-Broadway
NYC Off-Broadway Week Winter 2024, 2-for-1 tickets are for popular Off-Broadway shows from February 12 to March 3, 2024. 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇺🇾
Salsa Dance
Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Carnival, Carnaval, Carnavale, Mardi Gras
Carnival Tuesday, Mardi Gras, is Tuesday, February 13, 2024.
Spanish Rapper Birthday
Mala Rodríguez, one of the top Spanish rappers, was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain on February 13, 1979. Happy badday girl! 🇪🇸
African American Mardi Gras
Joy in Darkness is a Mardi Gras celebration featuring Grammy-nominated vocalist Antoinette Montague with Eli “Dr. E” Yamin and Jazz Power; at the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 7pm. Free with rsvp. 🇺🇸 🇭🇹 🇫🇷
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Latin Festival
Valentines Day on February 14 celebrates your entanglement with love, or your freedom from it. 🇮🇹 ❤️
African American Philosopher
Frederick Douglass brought the meaning of the U.S. Constitution to life with his courage, intellect, and perseverance. 🇺🇸
Latin Festival
Ash Wednesday is a Catholic festival that marks the start of Lent, the Catholic spiritual buildup to Easter with the reminder, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” ✝️
Latin Festival
Lent is the Catholic spiritual preparation for Easter. ✝️
Dominican Merengue & Bachata
Héctor Acosta “El Torito” & Sus Amigos play Dominican merengue and bachata; at the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Valentines Day, Wednesday, February 14, 2024 at 8pm. From $80. 🇩🇴
Traditional Flamenco Dance
Nélida Tirado dances traditional flamenco at Chez Messy, a Spanish tapas restaurant in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Wednesdays from 8:30-10:30pm. 🇵🇷
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Afro Cuban Jazz
David Chesky, Giovanni Hidalgo, and Jon Benitez play Afro-Cuban jazz at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 7pm and 9pm. From $20. 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
African American Contemporary Dance
OPENING NIGHT
Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet presents “Remembering,” a multimedia production about the Middle Passage and Emancipation; in the BAM Fisher Fishman Space at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; on Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 7:30pm. Through Saturday. $40. 🇺🇸
Jamaican Dancehall
Chaka Demus & Pliers play Jamaican dancehall at Sony Hall in the Times Square Theater District; on Friday, February 15, 2024 at 8:30pm. From $30. 🇯🇲
Tango Dance
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, February 16, 2024
Haitian American Folk for Families
Leyla McCalla shines a light on Haitian musical traditions and their connections to American history; for families in the Clark Studio Theater in residence at Lincoln Center; on Friday, February 16, 2024 at 7pm. Several daytime shows through Sunday. Choose-what-you-pay. 🇭🇹 🇺🇸
Dominican Merengue & Bachata
Pianist Joel Insuperable plays Dominican merengue and bachata for a ¡Vaya! dance party; in the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center; on Friday, February 16, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇩🇴
African American Contemporary Dance
Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet presents “Remembering,” a multimedia production about the Middle Passage and Emancipation; in the BAM Fisher Fishman Space at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; on Friday, February 16, 2024 at 7:30pm. $40. 🇺🇸
Italian American Pop
Patrizio sings Italian American pop; in the Victoria Theatre at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark, New Jersey; on Friday, February 16, 2024 at 8pm. From $50. 🇮🇹
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Puerto Rican Poet
Julia de Burgos, the Beloved Puerto Rican poet, was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico on February 17, 1914. ¡Río Grande de Loíza! 🇵🇷
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 10:30am & 1:30pm. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Haitian American Folk for Families
Leyla McCalla shines a light on Haitian musical traditions and their connections to American history; for families in the Clark Studio Theater in residence at Lincoln Center; on Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 11am and 2pm. Choose-what-you-pay. 🇭🇹 🇺🇸
African American Contemporary Dance
Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet presents “Remembering,” a multimedia production about the Middle Passage and Emancipation; in the BAM Fisher Fishman Space at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; on Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 2pm. $40. 🇺🇸
Modern & Contemporary Dance
Limón Dance Company performs Limón’s “Missa Brevis” (1958) and “Migrant Mother” (2022) by Mexican Bessie Award winner Raúl Tamez; at NJPAC, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey; on Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $59. 🇲🇽
Malian Blues
Malian ngoni master Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba play Malian blues for Robert Browning Associates at Roulette Intermedium in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn; on Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 8pm. From $35. 🇲🇱
The ngoni is a West African lute that is the ancestor of the American banjo.
Mexican Norteño
Los Tigres del Norte, one of the most popular regional Mexican norteño bands; plays Prudential Center arena in Newark, New Jersey; on Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 8pm. From $45. 🇲🇽
Puerto Rican Salsa
Jerry Rivera sings Puerto Rican salsa at Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey; on Saturday, February 17, 2024. From $55. 🇵🇷
Urban Latin Dance Party
The Spanglish Saturdays urban and latin dance party; of dem bow, hip-hop, reggaeton, trap; with bachata, cumbia, merengue, and salsa; is at La Boom, the Latin night club in Woodside, Queens; on Saturdays. 10pm – 4am. Free guest list before midnight. $26 after. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Sunday, February 18, 2024
African American Poet
Toni Morrison, the Pulitzer Prize-winning African American novelist (“The Bluest Eye” 1970, “Song of Solomon” 1977, “Beloved” 1987) was born in The Bronx, New York, on February 18, 1931. 🇺🇸
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 10:30am & 1:30pm. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Haitian American Folk for Families
Leyla McCalla shines a light on Haitian musical traditions and their connections to American history; for families in the Clark Studio Theater in residence at Lincoln Center; on Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 11am and 2pm. Choose-what-you-pay. 🇭🇹 🇺🇸
Haitian Dance Workshop
Jean Julio leads a Haitian Dance Workshop for NJPAC at Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts in Montclair, New Jersey; on Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 12noon. Free with rsvp. 🇭🇹
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Puerto Rican Alternative
iLe (Calle 13), brings her unique Puerto Rican alternative sound, with opener Lena Dardelet, to Sony Hall in the Times Square Theater District; on February 18, 2024 at 8pm. From $30. 🇵🇷
Latin Jazz
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $30+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC February 19-25, 2024
Ballet Hispánico at the 92nd Street Y Reimagines Flamenco, plus New York and Havana’s Latin Club Scenes 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇪🇸
Alonzo King LINES Ballet Presents “Deep River,” His Pandemic Ballet at Lincoln Center 🇺🇸
Paco de Lucía Legacy Tributes the Guitar Legend Who Fused Classical, Jazz, and Rock into New Flamenco 🇪🇸
Monday, February 19, 2024
U.S. Holiday
It’s Presidents Day, the U.S. national holiday that honors presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. 🇺🇸
Afro Cuban Jazz
Julliard Jazz Ensembles: From Africa to Cuba to NYC tells the story of jazz from New York, to New Orleans, to the Caribbean, to Mother Afrika; at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Monday, February 19, 2024 at 7pm and 9pm. From $20. 🇨🇺
Salsa Dance
Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Tuesday, February 20, 2024 at 10:30am. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Paco de Lucía Legacy Spanish Flamenco
OPENING NIGHT
Paco de Lucía Legacy Opening Concert features an all-star flamenco lineup; in the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan on Tuesday, February 20, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $23. 🇪🇸
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Paco de Lucía Legacy Spanish Flamenco
Paco de Lucía Legacy Biography Presentation and Concert features César Suárez talking about his book “El enigma Paco de Lucía” with Antonio Serrano, Antonio Sánchez and Javier Valdunciel tutoring masters students in flamenco performance from the Centro Superior Música Creativa in Madrid; at Instituto Cervantes in Midtown East, Manhattan; on Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 6pm. Free with rsvp. 🇪🇸
Paco de Lucía Legacy Spanish Flamenco
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra with Valencian pianist Alex Conde, guitarist Antonio Rey, harmonica player Antonio Serrano, flamenco singer Chonchi Heredia, dancer Karime Maya, and Brazilian percussionist Rubem Dantes; tribute the Paco de Lucía Legacy at Symphony Space in Manhattan’s Upper West Side; on Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 7pm. From $20. 🇪🇸
Latin Contemporary Dance
Ballet Hispánico, America’s largest Hispanic cultural organization, salutes New York’s and the 92nd Street Y’s role in dance history with a restaging of Talley Beatty’s New York dance club-inspired “Recuerdo de Campo Amor” (1985), Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s flamenco-inspired “Línea Recta” (2016), and Pedro Ruíz’ Havana dance club-inspired “Club Havana” (2022); in the Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y, New York in the Upper East Side; on February 21, 2024, at 7:30pm. From $30. 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇨🇺
Get tickets at 92ny.org
Jazz Broadway Musical Revival
OPENING NIGHT
“Jelly’s Last Jam,” George C. Wolfe’s triple Tony winning, 1992 Broadway musical portrait of New Orleans jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton (“that spanish tinge”), stars Billy Porter, Joaquina Kalukango, and original Broadway cast members Mamie Duncan-Gibbs, Stephanie Pope Lofgren, and Allison M. Williams as “The Hunnies;” at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 7:30pm. Through March 3, 2024. From $35. 🇺🇸
Paco de Lucía Legacy Spanish Flamenco
Paco de Lucía Legacy Flamenco and Jazz Concert features Josemi Carmona and Javier Colina, percussionist Silvia Pérez Cruz, and guitarist Pepe Habicheula; and Chano Domínguez, Jorge Pardo, Javier Colina and Tino di Geraldo with dancer Farru, playing flamenco jazz fusion; at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; on Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 8pm. 🇪🇸
Traditional Flamenco Dance
Nélida Tirado dances traditional flamenco at Chez Messy, a Spanish tapas restaurant in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Wednesdays from 8:30-10:30pm. 🇵🇷
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Latin Food
National Margarita Day celebrates the popular Mexican tequila cocktail on February 22. 🇲🇽
Documentary Film Festival
Doc Fortnight, MoMA’s festival of International documentary film and media; is at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Manhattan: from February 22 – March 7, 2024.
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 10:30am. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Paco de Lucía Legacy Spanish Flamenco
Paco de Lucía Legacy Percussion Master Class with cajón percussionist Israel “Piraña” Suarez; at King Juan Carlos Center at New York University in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 12 noon. 🇪🇸
Latin Music Awards
Premio Lo Nuestro Latin music awards are hosted by Angélica Vale, Clarissa Molina and Galilea Montijo; on Univision on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 7pm.
African American Ballet
OPENING NIGHT
Alonzo King LINES Ballet performs “Deep River” (2022) a spiritual piece from the pandemic, with MacArthur Fellow composer Jason Moran and Grammy Award-winning vocalist Lisa Fischer in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 7:30pm. Through Saturday. $35 suggested with options. 🇺🇸
Paco de Lucía Legacy Spanish Flamenco
Paco de Lucía Legacy Flamenco Summit Meets New York features Niño Josele with Rubén Blades, Josemi Carmona with Salif Keita, Antonio Rey with Richard Bona, Pepe Habichuela, and more; at The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 7:30pm. 🇪🇸
Jazz Broadway Musical Revival
“Jelly’s Last Jam,” George C. Wolfe’s triple Tony winning, 1992 Broadway musical portrait of New Orleans jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton (“that spanish tinge”), stars Billy Porter, Joaquina Kalukango, and original Broadway cast members Mamie Duncan-Gibbs, Stephanie Pope Lofgren, and Allison M. Williams as “The Hunnies;” at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $35. 🇺🇸
Italian Classical Music
New Jersey Symphony plays Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” featuring violin soloist Eric Wyrick; in Prudential Hall at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark, New Jersey; on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 1:30pm; and Friday, February 23, 2024 at 8pm. From $25. 🇮🇹
Tango Dance
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, February 23, 2024
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday, February 23, 2024 at 10:30am. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
New York Dominican Art
Dominican Yorks is an art exhibition of work by three New York Dominican artists: Reynaldo García Pantaleón, Chiqui Mendoza, and Rider Ureña, in conversation with the museum’s collection; at Hispanic Society in Washington Heights, Manhattan; from February 23 to June 30, 2024. Free. 🇩🇴 🇩🇴 🇩🇴
Paco de Lucía Legacy Spanish Flamenco
Paco de Lucía Legacy Puro Flamenco Concert features Pepe Habichuela, Rafael Riqueni, and Carmen Linares; playing traditional flamenco at Instituto Cervantes New York in Midtown East, Manhattan; on Friday, February 23, 2024 at 7pm. 🇪🇸
Dominican Merengue
170 Años de Merengue! presents Dominican merengue legends Aramis Camilo, Ninoshka, Richie Cepeda, Charlie Rodríguez, and Chiqui Taveras; in the Main Theater at Hostos Center at Hostos Community College in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Friday, February 23, 2024, at 7:30pm. $16. 🇩🇴
African American Ballet
Alonzo King LINES Ballet performs “Deep River” (2022) a spiritual piece from the pandemic, with MacArthur Fellow composer Jason Moran and Grammy Award-winning vocalist Lisa Fischer in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Friday, February 23, 2024 at 7:30pm. Through Saturday. $35 suggested with options. 🇺🇸
Paco de Lucía Legacy Spanish Flamenco
Paco de Lucía Legacy Flamenco Party is a flamenco jam session at Mercado Little Spain in Hudson Yards, Manhattan; on Friday, February 23, 2024 at 7:30pm. Free, but seating is limited. Go very early and enjoy the food. 🇪🇸
Jazz Broadway Musical Revival
“Jelly’s Last Jam,” George C. Wolfe’s triple Tony winning, 1992 Broadway musical portrait of New Orleans jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton (“that spanish tinge”), stars Billy Porter, Joaquina Kalukango, and original Broadway cast members Mamie Duncan-Gibbs, Stephanie Pope Lofgren, and Allison M. Williams as “The Hunnies;” at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, February 23, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $35. 🇺🇸
Dominican Off-Broadway Theatre
OPENING NIGHT
Waddys Jáquez’ “Mariposas de Acero” (Butterflies of Steel), musical theatre about the Mirabal Sisters, “Las Mariposas” who resisted and were murdered by the dictator Trujillo; stars Adalgisa Pantaleón, Nashla Bogaert, Hony Estrella, and Frank Ceara; at the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Friday, February 23, 2024 at 8pm. Through Sunday. From $88. 🇩🇴
Cumbia Rave
Cumbiatron, The Cumbia Rave, brings Mexican cumbia house to Irving Plaza rock club in Union Square, Manhattan; on Friday, February 23, 2024 at 9pm. From $19. 🇲🇽
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Monthly Grand Slam is at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; on Friday, February 23, 2024 at 10pm. From $25. 🇵🇷
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, February 24, 2024 at 10:30am & 1:30pm. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Jazz Broadway Musical Revival
“Jelly’s Last Jam,” George C. Wolfe’s triple Tony winning, 1992 Broadway musical portrait of New Orleans jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton (“that spanish tinge”), stars Billy Porter, Joaquina Kalukango, and original Broadway cast members Mamie Duncan-Gibbs, Stephanie Pope Lofgren, and Allison M. Williams as “The Hunnies;” at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, February 24, 2024 at 2pm & 8pm. From $35. 🇺🇸
Paco de Lucía Legacy Spanish Flamenco
Paco de Lucía: A Journey screens Curro Sanchez’s documentary “film “La Búsqueda” with director and artist Q&As, at Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village; on Saturday, February 24, 2024 at 4pm. 🇪🇸
African American Ballet
Alonzo King LINES Ballet performs “Deep River” (2022) a spiritual piece from the pandemic, with MacArthur Fellow composer Jason Moran and Grammy Award-winning vocalist Lisa Fischer in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 7:30pm. Through Saturday. $35 suggested with options. 🇺🇸
Dominican Off-Broadway Theatre
Waddys Jáquez’ “Mariposas de Acero” (Butterflies of Steel), musical theatre about the Mirabal Sisters, “Las Mariposas” who resisted and were murdered by the dictator Trujillo; stars Adalgisa Pantaleón, Nashla Bogaert, Hony Estrella, and Frank Ceara; at the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Saturday, February 24, 2024 at 8pm. From $88. 🇩🇴
Colombian Vallenato
Binomio de Oro de América, Alex Manga, and Daniel Calderón play a “Vallenatazo del Amor” concert of Colombian vallenato at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury, in Westbury, Long Island; on Saturday, February 24, 2024 at 8pm. From $72. 🇨🇴
Urban Latin Dance Party
The Spanglish Saturdays urban and latin dance party; of dem bow, hip-hop, reggaeton, trap; with bachata, cumbia, merengue, and salsa; is at La Boom, the Latin night club in Woodside, Queens; on Saturdays. 10pm – 4am. Free guest list before midnight. $26 after. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Sunday, February 25, 2024
African American Art
OPENING DAY
“The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” shows how after the Great Migration from the South, the Harlem Renaissance in Black Arts influenced the international modern art movement; at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park; from Sunday, February 25 – July 28, 2024 (11am – 5pm today). $30 (NY state residents pay-what-you-wish). 🇺🇸
East Asian Lunar New Year Spring Festival
The 26th Lunar New Year Parade NYC 2024 has dragons dancing through Manhattan Chinatown to the Lower East Side; at the end of the Lunar New Year spring festival on Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 1pm. FREE! 🇨🇳🇰🇭🇰🇷🇰🇵🇯🇵🇲🇳🇵🇭🇸🇬🇹🇼🇹🇭🇺🇸
Mexican Children’s Musical Theatre
“El Otro Oz” (The Other Oz) is Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman’s story of Dora, an American teenager who dreads her coming quinceañera (coming-of-age party), but learns to embrace her multicultural Mexican American heritage after being swept away to the strange Land of Oz. The musical, with regional mexican folk, salsa, and merengue music, is on Atlantic Stage 2 at the Atlantic Theater Company in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 1:30pm. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Jazz Broadway Musical Revival
“Jelly’s Last Jam,” George C. Wolfe’s triple Tony winning, 1992 Broadway musical portrait of New Orleans jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton (“that spanish tinge”), stars Billy Porter, Joaquina Kalukango, and original Broadway cast members Mamie Duncan-Gibbs, Stephanie Pope Lofgren, and Allison M. Williams as “The Hunnies;” at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 2pm & 7pm. From $35. 🇺🇸
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Argentine Rock
Argentine Rock
Enanitos Verdes (Lamento Boliviano, Tu Carcel) play Argentine rock; at Irving Plaza rock club in Union Square, Manhattan; on Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 7pm. From $75. 🇦🇷
Dominican Off-Broadway Theatre
Waddys Jáquez’ “Mariposas de Acero” (Butterflies of Steel), musical theatre about the Mirabal Sisters, “Las Mariposas” who resisted and were murdered by the dictator Trujillo; stars Adalgisa Pantaleón, Nashla Bogaert, Hony Estrella, and Frank Ceara; at the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 8pm. From $88. 🇩🇴
Latin Jazz
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $30+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC February 26-29, 2024
Monday, February 26, 2024
Salsa Dance
Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Puerto Rican Spoken Word
The Nuyorican Bowery Slam is at the Bowery Poetry Club in NoHo, Manhattan; Mondays from 7-9pm (6:30pm doors). $20. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
National Day
Dominican Independence Day is February 27, 1844. 🇩🇴
Dominican Independence Comedy
Morir Soñado celebrates Dominican Independence Day (Feb 27) with comedy; at the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 6:30pm & 9pm. From $30. 🇩🇴
Jazz Broadway Musical Revival
“Jelly’s Last Jam,” George C. Wolfe’s triple Tony winning, 1992 Broadway musical portrait of New Orleans jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton (“that spanish tinge”), stars Billy Porter, Joaquina Kalukango, and original Broadway cast members Mamie Duncan-Gibbs, Stephanie Pope Lofgren, and Allison M. Williams as “The Hunnies;” at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $35. 🇺🇸
Afro-Colombian Folkloric Dance
OPENING NIGHT
Sankofa Danzafro from Colombia, dances “Behind the South: Dances for Manuel,” a tribute to Afro-Colombian traditions in conversation with Colombian writer Manuela Zapata Olivella, and Yoruba orishas Changó, orisha of the drum and Yemayá, great mother orisha of the sea; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; from Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 7:30pm. Through Sunday. From $52. 🇨🇴
Classical Choir Music
Orchestra of St Luke’s, performs Carl Orff’s famed monumental choral work “Carmina Burana,” led by New York Ecuadorian Colombian conductor Tito Muñoz, with soloists, the Westminster Symphonic Choir, and Young People’s Chorus of New York City directed by New York Dominican Francisco J. Núñez; in the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 8pm. From $24. 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇪🇨
Puerto Rican Dominican Jazz
Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Puerto Rican Dominican jazz; at Sony Hall in the Times Square Theater District; on Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 8pm. From $15. 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
West African Puppet Storytelling
“How the Turtle Got Its Shell” by The Shadow Box Theatre, is West African puppet theatre featuring Brooklyn drummer Chief Baba Neil Clarke, Barbados dancer Gina Mayers, and Samuel Humphreys of the Sokolow Dance Ensemble; in the Repertory Theater at Hostos Center at Hostos Community College in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Wednesday-Thursday, February 28-29, 2024, at 10am (Pre-K to 5th Grade). Free tickets at Box Office (212) 724-0677. 🇺🇸 🇧🇧
Afro-Colombian Folkloric Dance
Sankofa Danzafro from Colombia, dances “Behind the South: Dances for Manuel,” a tribute to Afro-Colombian traditions in conversation with Colombian writer Manuela Zapata Olivella, and Yoruba orishas Changó, orisha of the drum and Yemayá, great mother orisha of the sea; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; from Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 7:30pm, with a curtain chat. From $52. 🇨🇴
Jazz Broadway Musical Revival
“Jelly’s Last Jam,” George C. Wolfe’s triple Tony winning, 1992 Broadway musical portrait of New Orleans jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton (“that spanish tinge”), stars Billy Porter, Joaquina Kalukango, and original Broadway cast members Mamie Duncan-Gibbs, Stephanie Pope Lofgren, and Allison M. Williams as “The Hunnies;” at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $35. 🇺🇸
French Classical Music, Chilean Violinist
Piano Trio Zimbalist and Chilean American violist Roberto Díaz, Curtis Institute of Music CEO, play French composer Fauré’s C-Minor Piano Quartet and more; in Buttenwieser Hall at the 92nd Street Y in the Upper East Side; on Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $25. 🇨🇱 🇫🇷
Traditional Flamenco Dance
Nélida Tirado dances traditional flamenco at Chez Messy, a Spanish tapas restaurant in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Wednesdays from 8:30-10:30pm. 🇵🇷
Thursday, February 29, 2024
It’s Leap Year to keep the Gregorian calendar (started in 1582) in sync with Mother Nature.
French Film Festival
The 29th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2024 film festival, coproduced with UniFrance, is at Film at Lincoln Center; from February 29 – March 10, 2024. 🇫🇷
West African Puppet Storytelling
“How the Turtle Got Its Shell” by The Shadow Box Theatre, is West African puppet theatre featuring Brooklyn drummer Chief Baba Neil Clarke, Barbados dancer Gina Mayers, and Samuel Humphreys of the Sokolow Dance Ensemble; in the Repertory Theater at Hostos Center at Hostos Community College in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Wednesday-Thursday, February 28-29, 2024, at 10am (Pre-K to 5th Grade). Free tickets at Box Office (212) 724-0677. 🇺🇸 🇧🇧
Outsider Art Fair
OPENING NIGHT
The 32nd Outsider Art Fair NYC 2024 shows self-taught art, art brut, and outsider art; at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Thursday, February 29, 2024, with a vernissage from 6-9pm $100. Show from $35 through Sunday. 🇨🇦 🇫🇷
Haitian Dominican Film
Director Rúben Durán discusses his films “Cimarrón Spirit” and “Colores del Carnaval Dominicano” with Clarivel Ruiz, founder of Dominicans Love Haitians, on the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) website, Facebook, and YouTube pages; on Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 7pm. Free. 🇩🇴 🇭🇹
Argentine Folk Spanish Flamenco Jazz
Emilio Solla and Antonia Lizana play a unique blend of Argentine folk and Spanish flamenco jazz from their 2023 album “El Siempre Mar,” at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 7pm and 9pm. From $20. 🇦🇷 🇪🇸
French Canadian Giant Puppet Theatre
Théâtre de la Dame de Coeur’s “Acupunk” is an installation of giant puppets metaphorically healing Mother Earth through puppet acupuncture; in Jose Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center; on Thursday-Saturday, February 29 – March 2, 2024 at 7:15pm & 9pm. FREE. Just show up. 🇨🇦Jazz Broadway Musical Revival
“Jelly’s Last Jam,” George C. Wolfe’s triple Tony winning, 1992 Broadway musical portrait of New Orleans jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton (“that spanish tinge”), stars Billy Porter, Joaquina Kalukango, and original Broadway cast members Mamie Duncan-Gibbs, Stephanie Pope Lofgren, and Allison M. Williams as “The Hunnies;” at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $35. 🇺🇸
Afro-Colombian Folkloric Dance
Sankofa Danzafro from Colombia, dances “Behind the South: Dances for Manuel,” a tribute to Afro-Colombian traditions in conversation with Colombian writer Manuela Zapata Olivella, and Yoruba orishas Changó, orisha of the drum and Yemayá, great mother orisha of the sea; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; from Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 8pm. From $52. 🇨🇴
Colombian Comedy
Juanpis “As Always” brings the famed Colombian comedian, to the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 8pm. From $62. 🇨🇴