Things to do in NYC in March 2024:
- LATIN ART ~ Outsider Art Fair (Feb 29 – Mar 3), Whitney Biennial (Mar 20), Affordable Art Fair (Mar 20-24), Conzo: A Look Back at The Bronx, 1977-84 (Mar 22)
- LATIN DANCE ~ Sankofa DanzAfro (Mar 1-3), Flamenco Festival New York (Mar 1-17), Flamenco Festival New York City Center (Mar 8-17), Mark Morris Dance Group (Mar 20-23), Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana (Mar 26-27), Eduardo Vilaro Ballet Hispánico (Mar 27)
- LATIN FILM ~ Doc Fortnight (Feb 27- Mar 7), Rendez-Vous with French Cinema (Feb 29 – Mar 10), Dune Part 2 (Mar 1), New York International Children’s Film Festival (Weekends, Mar 2-17), “La Chimera” (Mar 29), African Diaspora International Film Festival (Mar 29-31)
- LATIN MUSIC ~ Tomatito (Mar 1), Flamenco Festival (Mar 1-17), Andy Montañez (Mar 2), Los Ángeles Azules (Mar 2), Forró in the Dark (Mar 6), Roméo et Juliette (Mar 7, 10, 15, 19, 23, 27, 30), Don Omar (Mar 9, 10), Eddie Palmieri (Mar 11, 25) Juanes (Mar 14), Joe Bataan (Mar 15), Gloria Trevi (Mar 15), Forever Freestyle (Mar 16), Annette A. Aguilar & Stringbeans (Mar 23), Pete Rodríguez (Mar 23), Ana Tijoux (Mar 24), Lulada Club (Mar 24), Tania León (Mar 26, 30), La Sonora Ponceña (Mar 30, Nicki Minaj (Mar 30).
- LATIN PARADES ~ National Puerto Rican Day Parade Scholarship Applications (Mar 15), St Patrick’s Day Parade (Mar 17), Easter Parade (Mar 31).
- LATIN SPORTS ~ New York City Football Club NYCFC (Mar 9, 16), New York Red Bulls (Mar 9, 16), New York Mets home opener (Mar 28).
- LATIN THEATRE ~ Teatro Fest NYC (Mar – Apr), El Otro Oz (Mar 2), Teatro La Re-Sentida “Oasis de la Impunidad” (Mar 8-9), Harlem Renaissance Reborn (Mar 21).
Latin Culture in March 2024:
- LATIN FESTIVALS ~ International Women’s Day (Mar 8), Ramadan (Mar 10 – Apr 9), Damballa (Mar 17), Saint Patrick’s Day (Mar 17),Saint Joseph (Mar 19), World Poetry Day (Mar 19), World Puppetry Day (Mar 21), Puerto Rico Emancipation Day (Mar 22), Purim (Mar 23-24), Holy Week (Mar 24-30), Palm Sunday (Mar 24), Holi (Mar 25), Annunciation (Mar 25), Maundy Thursday (Mar 28), Good Friday, (Mar 29), Easter (Mar 31).
- LATIN NATIONAL DAYS ~ Ghana (Mar 6), Mauritius (Mar 12), Tunisia (Mar 20), Harlem Renaissance (Mar 21), Namibia (Mar 21)
- LATIN BIRTHDAYS ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Mar 6), Astor Piazzolla (Mar 11), Benito Juárez (Mar 21), Mario Vargas Llosa (Mar 28) Cesar Chavez Day (Mar 31)
March weather is early spring, so it can be are cold to cool. Average temperatures are 36°-52°. Layer with a hat, gloves, and scarf. Spring blooms in New York City on March 19. The Worm Moon, March full moon is March 25. The third week of March is peak Spring Break, which may raise travel costs and reduce availability.
Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month.
March 2024 Sponsors
Thanks to our March 2024 sponsors: 92nd Street Y, New York, New York City Center, NYU Skirball Center, and the World Music Institute.
Things To Do in NYC March 1-3, 2024
Friday, March 1, 2024
Latin Festival
March is Women’s History Month.
Hispanic Theatre Festival
TeatroFest NYC 2024 is at IATI Theater, INTAR Theatre, Teatro LATEA, Repertorio Español, Teatro Circulo, and Teatro SEA in Manhattan; Pregones Theater/PRTT in The Bronx; and the Thalia Spanish Theater in Queens; from March 1 – April 30, 2024. 🇨🇱 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪
French Canadian Movie
“Dune: Part Two” opens March 1, 2024.
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. 🇫🇷
Documentary Film Festival
Doc Fortnight 2024, MoMA’s international documentary film festival features a suite of Caribbean films curated by Sociedad del Tiempo Libre from Puerto Rico; is at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Manhattan; from February 27 – March 7, 2024. 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇬🇵 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
Outsider Art Fair
The 32nd Outsider Art Fair NYC 2024 shows self-taught art, art brut, and outsider art; at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday, March 1, 2024, from 11am-8pm. From $35. Through Sunday. 🇨🇦 🇫🇷
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, March 1, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $35. 🇺🇸
Bolivian Classical Piano
Pianist Sergio Escalera Soria plays a Foundation For Bolivian Artists scholarship recital of Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Fariñas, Leguizamón, Rodríguez, Casazola, and Tosar; in Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center in Lincoln Square, Manhattan; on Friday, March 1, 2024 at 7:30pm. $45. 🇧🇴
Flamenco Festival New York
OPENING NIGHT
Tomatito, who gained fame as Camarón de la Isla’s guitarist, opens the Flamenco Festival New York for the World Music Institute; at The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, March 1, 2024 at 8pm. From $35. worldmusicinstitute.org 🇪🇸
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 Friday, March 1, 2024 at 8pm. From $52. 🇨🇴
Spanish Pop
Pablo Alboran Tour La Cu4rta Hoja brings Spanish pop to the Theater at Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday, March 1, 2024 at 8:30pm. From $82. 🇪🇸
Puerto Rican House & Fiesta Dominicana “Teteo”
New York Puerto Rican DJ Eli Escobar spins house, techno, disco, and hip hop in the Main Room; and Bronx Dominican DJs Ultra Violet with Dos Flakos and Mando Sarit spin a Dominican Independence Day teteo in the Onyx Room, at the House of Yes in Bushwick, Brooklyn; on Friday, March 1, 2024 from 10pm – 4am. From Free to $41. 🇵🇷 🇩🇴
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Children’s Film Festival
OPENING DAY
The 27th New York International Children’s Film Festival 2024 (NYICFF) opens at SVA Theatre in Chelsea, Manhattan; with screenings including “Robot Dreams” at 3pm and “Sirocco & the Kingdom of Winds” at 5:30pm. The Festival continues in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Westchester on Fridays-Sundays, March 2-17, 2024. From $17. All Access Pass $475. 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
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. 🇫🇷
Documentary Film Festival
Doc Fortnight 2024, MoMA’s international documentary film festival features a suite of Caribbean films curated by Sociedad del Tiempo Libre from Puerto Rico; is at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Manhattan; from February 27 – 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 Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 10:30am and 1:30pm. From $18. 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Outsider Art Fair
The 32nd Outsider Art Fair NYC 2024 shows self-taught art, art brut, and outsider art; at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 2, 2024, from 11am-8pm. From $35. Through Sunday. 🇨🇦 🇫🇷
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, March 2, 2024 at 2pm & 8pm. From $35. 🇺🇸
AfroDiasporic Contemporary Operatic Classical Music
International Contemporary Ensemble performs the live world premiere of Leila Adu-Gilmore’s “Mahakala Oratorio,” plus Anthony Davis’s “Wayang No. II (Shadowdance) and a Davis piano solo; at NYU Skirball Center at New York University in Greenwich Village; on Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 7:30pm. $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 Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 8pm. From $52. 🇨🇴
Mexican Cumbia
Los Ángeles Azules El Amor de mi Vida Tour brings Mexican cumbia to The Theater at Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 8pm. From $66. 🇲🇽
Spanish Flamenco Music and Comedy
Charo, the Spanish singer, actress, comedienne flamenco guitarist, and bubbly TV personality; entertains with her flamenco guitar; at the Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on March 2, 2024 at 8pm. From $37. 🇪🇸
Puerto Rican Salsa and Mambo
Andy Montañez and Tito Puente Jr, play a tribute to Puerto Rican salsa and mambo legends; at Lehman Center in Jerome Park, The Bronx; on Saturday March 2, 2024 at 9pm. From $48. 🇵🇷
Dominican Alternative
Singer-songwriter Alex Ferreira sings a solo acoustic set of Dominican alternative; at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 2 at 9:30pm, and Sunday, March 3, 2024 at 8:30pm (5:30pm doors). $30. 🇩🇴
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. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
African House DJ
In Afrothèque, Cyrostatik spins African house and techno at Drom in Manhattan’s East Village; on Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 11pm. $18.
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Children’s Film Festival
The 27th New York International Children’s Film Festival 2024 (NYICFF) continues at SVA Theatre in Chelsea, Manhattan. From $17. 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
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. 🇫🇷
Documentary Film Festival
Doc Fortnight 2024, MoMA’s international documentary film festival features a suite of Caribbean films curated by Sociedad del Tiempo Libre from Puerto Rico; is at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Manhattan; from February 27 – March 7, 2024. 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇬🇵 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
Outsider Art Fair
The 32nd Outsider Art Fair NYC 2024 shows self-taught art, art brut, and outsider art; at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, March 3, 2024, from 11am-6pm. From $35. Through Sunday. 🇨🇦 🇫🇷
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, March 3, 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, March 3, 2024 at 2pm. From $35. 🇺🇸
Flamenco Festival New York
Alejandro Hurtado “Tamiz” brings Spanish flamenco guitar from Alicante, to the Flamenco Festival New York; at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Sunday, March 3, 2024 at 6pm (5:30pm doors). $30. 🇪🇸
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
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 Sunday, March 3, 2024 at 8pm. From $52. 🇨🇴
Dominican Alternative
Singer-songwriter Alex Ferreira sings a solo acoustic set of Dominican alternative; at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Sunday, March 3, 2024 at 8:30pm (5:30pm doors). $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. 🇨🇺
Travel ~ Santo Domingo Carnival
Santo Domingo Carnival 2024, the climax of Dominican Carnival, is on the Malecon along Avenida George Washington from Presidente Vicini Burgos St (at el Obelisco de Santo Domingo) to Máximo Gómez Avenue, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on Sunday, March 3, 2024 at 2pm. Be prepared to pass through security. 🇩🇴
Things To Do in NYC March 4-10, 2024
Gabriel García Márquez Said His Magical Realism Was Actually Real 🇨🇴
International Women’s Day 2024 #InspireInclusion
Ramadan is the Muslim Sacred Month of Community ☪️
March is Women’s History Month
Travel
Ghana Independence Day Celebrates the Beginning of the Decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa 🇬🇭
Monday, March 4, 2024
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. 🇫🇷
Documentary Film Festival
Doc Fortnight 2024, MoMA’s international documentary film festival features a suite of Caribbean films curated by Sociedad del Tiempo Libre from Puerto Rico; is at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Manhattan; from February 27 – March 7, 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, March 5, 2024
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. 🇫🇷
Documentary Film Festival
Doc Fortnight 2024, MoMA’s international documentary film festival features a suite of Caribbean films curated by Sociedad del Tiempo Libre from Puerto Rico; is at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Manhattan; from February 27 – March 7, 2024. 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇬🇵 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
Flamenco Festival New York
Andres Barrios “Universo Lorca,” with dancer Ana Almagro, blends Spanish Flamenco with African Diaspora traditions, for the Flamenco Festival New York; at Instituto Cervantes New York in Midtown East, Manhattan; on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 7pm. $30. 🇪🇸
Cuban Jazz
Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba plays jazz at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; from Tuesday-Sunday, March 5-10, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm. Through Sunday. 🇨🇺
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
National Day
Ghana Independence Day celebrates the beginning of the decolonization of sub-Saharan Africa on March 6, 1957. 🇬🇭
Colombian Author Birthday
Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize-winning father of Magical Realism, was born in Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia on March 6, 1927. 🇨🇴
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. 🇫🇷
Documentary Film Festival
Doc Fortnight 2024, MoMA’s international documentary film festival features a suite of Caribbean films curated by Sociedad del Tiempo Libre from Puerto Rico; is at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Manhattan; from February 27 – March 7, 2024. 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇬🇵 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
Colombian Salsa for Disabilities
Lulada Club, New York City’s all-women Cali Colombian salsa band, plays relaxed salsa in the morning for families with disabilities, and regular Cali salsa followed by a caregivers workshop in the afternoon; in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 11am and 1pm. Free with rsvp. 🇨🇴
Indie Rock Festival
The New Colossus Festival 2024 is a five-day independent rock showcase presenting over 130 emerging artists at eight independent rock venues in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; from Wednesday-Sunday, March 6-10, 2024. The Ditto X music industry conference is at Pianos, Wednesday-Thursday, March 6-7, 2024. From $150. 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇪🇨 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
French Canadian Classical Orchestra
Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin with pianist Tony Siqi Yun, play Derksen, Rachmaninoff, and Sibelius; in the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 8pm. From $22. 🇨🇦
Cuban Jazz
Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba plays jazz at the Blue Note New York jazz club in Greenwich Village; on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm. 🇨🇺
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. 🇵🇷
Brazilian Forró Fusion
Forró in the Dark plays Brazilian forró for dancing; at Nublu 151 night club in Manhattan’s East Village; on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 10pm. $23. 🇧🇷
Thursday, March 7, 2024
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. 🇫🇷
Documentary Film Festival
Doc Fortnight 2024, MoMA’s international documentary film festival features a suite of Caribbean films curated by Sociedad del Tiempo Libre from Puerto Rico; is at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Manhattan; from February 27 – March 7, 2024. 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇬🇵 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
Indie Rock Festival
The New Colossus Festival 2024 is a five-day independent rock showcase presenting over 130 emerging artists at eight independent rock venues in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; from Wednesday-Sunday, March 6-10, 2024. The Ditto X music industry conference is at Pianos, Wednesday-Thursday, March 6-7, 2024. From $150. 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇪🇨 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
Flamenco Festival New York
Rafael Riqueni “Nerja” brings the Spanish flamenco guitarist’s last chapter of his Andalusian trilogy inspired by the caves of southern Spain; to the Flamenco Festival New York; in Elebash Recital Hall at The Graduate Center (CUNY) in Murray Hill, Manhattan; on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 7pm. $35. 🇪🇸
French Opera ~ Puerto Rican Soprano
OPENING NIGHT
Puerto Rican soprano Nadine Sierra and French tenor Benjamin Bernheim star in “Roméo et Juliette, Charles Gounod’s French opera about Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers; at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center; on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 7pm. Seven performances through March 30. From $44. 🇫🇷 ~ 🇮🇹 🇵🇷
Classical Music
In flutist Valerie Coleman’s “Portraits of Josephine,” an Orchestra of St Luke’s wind quartet is joined by actor and playwright Kirya Traber who narrates this tribute to the life of Josephine Baker, the legendary American French dancer, singer, and actress who went from St Louis vaudeville to New York’s Harlem Renaissance to Paris cabaret as an international star of The Jazz Age. It’s at Hostos Center in Mott Haven The Bronx; on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 7pm. FREE with rsvp. Registration opens in early 2024. 🇺🇸
Cuban Jazz
Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba plays jazz at the Blue Note New York jazz club in Greenwich Village; on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm. 🇨🇺
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, March 8, 2024
Latin Festival
International Women’s Day is March 8. The 2024 theme is #InspireInclusion. Latin tradition is to celebrate all the women in your life: family, love, friends, and coworkers. 🇺🇳
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. 🇫🇷
Latin American Design
OPENING DAY
Crafting Modernity, Design in Latin America, 1940-1980 examines Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Mexican, and Venezuelan interior design; at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Manhattan; from March 8 – September 22, 2024. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇻🇪
Mexican Pop On Sale
Reik “Panorama Tour” of Mexican pop at Radio City Music Hall in Rockefeller Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, June 1, 2024 at 8pm ~ goes on sale on Friday, March 8 at 10am. 🇲🇽
Indie Rock Festival
The New Colossus Festival 2024 is a five-day independent rock showcase presenting over 130 emerging artists at eight independent rock venues in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; from Wednesday-Sunday, March 6-10, 2024. From $150. 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇪🇨 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
Flamenco Festival New York City Center
Flamenco Festival New York City Center presents 38 dancers of the National Ballet of Spain; Spain National Dance Award winner Olga Pericet with guitarist Antonio De Torres; and a Gala Flamenca featuring the explosive Manuel Liñan, Alfonso Losa, El Yiyo (Miguel Fernández Ribas), soloist Paula Comitre, and vocalist Sandra Carrasco; at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; Friday-Sunday, March 8-10, and 15-17. From $45. nycitycenter.org 🇪🇸 🇪🇸 🇪🇸
OPENING NIGHT
Ballet Nacional de España “Invocación,” directed by Rubén Olmo, is an epic piece with 38 dancers dancing many flamenco styles including a tribute to Mario Maya, one of the creators of the Andalusian Flamenco Theater; for the Flamenco Festival New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, March 8, 2024 at 7:30pm. Through Sunday. From $45. nycitycenter.org 🇪🇸
Chilean Theatre
Teatro La Re-Sentida “Oasis de la Impunidad” is thought-provoking new Chilean theatre about the abuse of power; at NYU Skirball Center at New York University in Greenwich Village; on Friday-Saturday, March 8-9, 2024 at 7:30pm. $50. nyuskirball.org 🇨🇱
Cuban Jazz
Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio with Eric Harland & Ricky Rodriguez, plays jazz at the Blue Note New York jazz club in Greenwich Village; on Friday, March 8, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm. 🇨🇺
All-Women Afro-Brazilian Drum Line
Batalá New York, NYC’s all-women Afro-Brazilian drum line, celebrates International Women’s Day; at Drom in Manhattan’s East Village; on Friday, March 8, 2024 at 10:30pm. From $15. 🇧🇷
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Children’s Film Festival
The 27th New York International Children’s Film Festival 2024 (NYICFF) continues at SVA Theatre, Scandinavia House, and DCTV in Manhattan. From $17. 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
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. 🇫🇷
Major League Soccer
HOME OPENER
New York City Football Club vs Portland Timbers is Major League Soccer at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 3pm. From $29. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇵🇷 🇸🇱 🇺🇾
Classical Music
In flutist Valerie Coleman’s “Portraits of Josephine,” an Orchestra of St Luke’s wind quartet is joined by actor and playwright Kirya Traber who narrates this tribute to the life of Josephine Baker, the legendary American French dancer, singer, and actress who went from St Louis vaudeville to New York’s Harlem Renaissance to Paris cabaret as an international star of The Jazz Age. It’s at Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden; on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 2pm. FREE with rsvp. Registration opens in early 2024. 🇺🇸
Indie Rock Festival
The New Colossus Festival 2024 is a five-day independent rock showcase presenting over 130 emerging artists at eight independent rock venues in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; from Wednesday-Sunday, March 6-10, 2024. From $150. 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇪🇨 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
Flamenco Festival New York City Center
Ballet Nacional de España “Invocación,” directed by Rubén Olmo, is an epic piece with 38 dancers dancing many flamenco styles including a tribute to Mario Maya, one of the creators of the Andalusian Flamenco Theater; for the Flamenco Festival New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; from Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 3pm and 7:30pm. From $45. 🇪🇸
Chilean Theatre
Teatro La Re-Sentida “Oasis de la Impunidad” is thought-provoking new Chilean theatre about the abuse of power; at NYU Skirball Center at New York University in Greenwich Village; on Friday-Saturday, March 8-9, 2024 at 7:30pm. $50. nyuskirball.org 🇨🇱
Major League Soccer
HOME OPENER ~ LED Foam Stick Giveaway
New York Red Bulls vs FC Dallas is Major League Soccer at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey; on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $19. 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇬🇦 🇬🇭 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇻🇪
Flamenco Festival New York
Antonia Jiménez and Inma La Carbonera “A Gaya” is Spanish guitar and vocals for Mother Earth and the Flamenco Festival New York; for Robert Browning Associates at Roulette Intermedium in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn; on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 8pm. From $31. 🇪🇸
Puerto Rican Reggaeton
Don Omar “Back to Reggaeton Tour” brings Puerto Rican reggaeton to Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 8pm. From $185. 🇵🇷
Chilean Pop Ballads
Myriam Hernandez “Invencible Tour” sings Chilean pop ballads at the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 8pm. From $65. 🇨🇱
French Pop Piano
Sofiane Pamart, the young French pianist, plays his pop piano for Le Poisson Rouge; at The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 8pm. From $45. 🇫🇷
Cuban Jazz
Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio with Eric Harland & Ricky Rodriguez, plays jazz at the Blue Note New York jazz club in Greenwich Village; on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm. 🇨🇺
Dominican Merengue
Eddy Herrera “Agradecido” featuring Wilfrido Vargas, plays Dominican merengue; at Lehman Center in Jerome Park, The Bronx; on Saturday March 9, 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, March 10, 2024
Latin Festival
Ramadan, the Muslim sacred month of community, starts at moonrise on Sunday, March 10, 2024 and runs through April 9, 2024. ☪️
Children’s Film Festival
The 27th New York International Children’s Film Festival 2024 (NYICFF) continues at SVA Theatre and Film Forum in Manhattan, and Alamo Drafthouse in Downtown Brooklyn. From $17. 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
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. 🇫🇷
French Opera ~ Puerto Rican Soprano
Puerto Rican soprano Nadine Sierra and French tenor Benjamin Bernheim star in “Roméo et Juliette, Charles Gounod’s French opera about Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers; at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center; on Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 3pm. From $44. 🇫🇷 ~ 🇮🇹 🇵🇷
Indie Rock Festival
The New Colossus Festival 2024 is a five-day independent rock showcase presenting over 130 emerging artists at eight independent rock venues in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; from Wednesday-Sunday, March 6-10, 2024. From $150. 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇪🇨 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
Flamenco Festival New York City Center
Ballet Nacional de España “Invocación,” directed by Rubén Olmo, is an epic piece with 38 dancers dancing many flamenco styles including a tribute to Mario Maya, one of the creators of the Andalusian Flamenco Theater; for the Flamenco Festival New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; from Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 3pm. From $45. 🇪🇸
Classical Music
In flutist Valerie Coleman’s “Portraits of Josephine,” an Orchestra of St Luke’s wind quartet is joined by actor and playwright Kirya Traber who narrates this tribute to the life of Josephine Baker, the legendary American French dancer, singer, and actress who went from St Louis vaudeville to New York’s Harlem Renaissance to Paris cabaret as an international star of The Jazz Age. It’s at the Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library; on Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 4pm. FREE with rsvp. Registration opens in early 2024. 🇺🇸
Flamenco Festival New York
Las Migas “Libres,” 2022 Latin Grammy winner for “Best Flamenco Album,” is an all-woman Spanish flamenco band with vocalist Carolina Fernández “La Chispa,” guitarists Marta Robles and Alicia Grillo, and violinist Laura Pacios. They play the Flamenco Festival New York; at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 6pm. 🇪🇸
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Puerto Rican Reggaeton
Don Omar “Back to Reggaeton Tour” plays Puerto Rican reggaeton at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey; on Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 8pm. From $67. 🇵🇷
Cuban Jazz
Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba Duo with Cuban singer Aymée Nuviola (Celia in the telenovela), plays jazz at the Blue Note New York jazz club in Greenwich Village; on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm. 🇨🇺 🇨🇺
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 March 11-17, 2024
Dancing the 92nd Street Y Brings Modern Dance Companies Limón, Martha Graham, and Ailey II Back Home 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
Flamenco Festival New York City Center Brings the Best Dancers From Spain to New York 🇪🇸
Israel Fernández and Diego Del Morao Play the Flamenco Festival New York for the World Music Institute at Merkin Hall 🇪🇸
Monday, March 11, 2024
Argentine Tango Birthday
Astor Piazzolla, whose “Nuevo Tango” fused Argentine tango with classical and jazz; was born in Mar de Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina; on March 11, 1921. He was first exposed to classical and jazz while living in Greenwich Village. 🇦🇷
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. 🇵🇷
Brazilian Classical Composer, Puerto Rican Opera Soprano
Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble plays Villa-Lobos, featuring Puerto Rican soprano Nadine Sierra; in the Weill Recital hall at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Monday, March 11, 2024 at 7:30pm. Hurry, it’s selling out. 🇧🇷 🇵🇷
Latin Jazz and Salsa Spring Residency
OPENING NIGHT
Puerto Rican NEA Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri, one of New York’s elder jazzmen, plays Latin jazz and salsa in his Spring Residency; at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village; Mondays, March 11 & 25, April 8 & 22, May 6 & 20, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6 & 10pm doors). From $35. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Independence Day
Mauritius Independence Day is March 12, 1968. 🇲🇺
Modern & Contemporary Dance
Dancing the 92nd Street Y celebrates 92NY’s 150th Anniversary with a program of modern dance companies who formed there: Limón Dance Company, Ailey II, and Martha Graham Dance Company, paired with choreography by former Ailey dancers Omar Román de Jesús, Jamar Roberts, and Hope Boykin; in Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $30. 92ny.org 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
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, March 12, 2024 at 8pm. From $15. 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
St Patrick’s Day Parade Event
The St Patrick’s Foundation Gala raises scholarship funds at the New York Marriott Marquis in Manhattan’s Times Square Theater District; on March 13, 2024, at 6pm. 🇮🇪
Flamenco Festival New York
Rycardo Moreno “Flamenco Meets Jazz,” pairs the Romani guitarist with Israeli guitarist Yotam Silberstein, and Spanish vocalist Celia Flores for the Flamenco Festival New York; at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 7pm and 9pm. From $20. 🇪🇸 🇮🇱
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, March 14, 2024
Spanish Romani Flamenco Festival New York
Spanish Romani singer Israel Fernández and guitarist Diego Del Morao play Spanish flamenco for the World Music Institute and Flamenco Festival New York; in Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center in Lincoln Square, Manhattan; on Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 8pm. From $45. worldmusicinstitute.org 🇪🇸
Colombian Alternative Rock
Juanes North American Tour brings the Colombian alternative rocker to Radio City Music Hall in Rockefeller Center; on Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 8pm. From $79. 🇨🇴
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, March 15, 2024
Puerto Rican Scholarship Applications
National Puerto Rican Day Parade Scholarship Applications are due on March 15, 2024. 🇵🇷 🇵🇷 🇵🇷
Contemporary Art
OPENING DAY
By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection contrasts Arte Povera (Italian art of the 1960s-70s) with contemporary art to show how artists leverage the technical and social movements of their time to push artistic boundaries; at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; from March 15, 2024 to January 12, 2025; 🇺🇸 🇮🇹
St Patrick’s Day Parade Event
The Irish Flag Raising is at Bowling Green in Manhattan’s Financial District; on March 15, 2024 at 12 noon. FREE. 🇮🇪
Puerto Rican Women’s Comedy
Teatro Breve Las Jevas de Tour brings all-women comic theatre from San Juan, Puerto Rico to the Repertory Theater at Hostos Center at Hostos Community College in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Friday, March 15, 2024, at 7pm. From $25. 🇵🇷
Brazilian Jazz
Percussionist Cyro Baptista plays his crazy Brazilian jazz; at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Friday, March 15, 2024 at 7pm. 🇧🇷
Flamenco Festival New York City Center
Olga Pericet dances “La Leona,” a solo with Antonio de Torres on guitar for the Flamenco Festival New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, March 15, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $45. nycitycenter.org 🇪🇸
Latin Soul
Joe Bataan, “The King of Latin Soul,” plays a ¡Vaya! dance party in the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center; on Friday, March 15, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇵🇭 🇺🇸
Flamenco Festival New York
María José Llergo and Sandra Carrasco sing a contemporary flamenco double-bill for the World Music Institute Flamenco Festival New York; in the Main Space at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village, Manhattan: on Friday, March 15, 2024 at 8pm. From $30. worldmusicinstitute.org 🇪🇸
French Opera ~ Puerto Rican Soprano
Puerto Rican soprano Nadine Sierra and French tenor Benjamin Bernheim star in “Roméo et Juliette, Charles Gounod’s French opera about Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers; at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center; on Friday, March 15, 2024 at 8pm. From $44. 🇫🇷 ~ 🇮🇹 🇵🇷
Mexican Rock
Gloria Trevi “Mi Soundtrack Tour” has the “Mexican Madonna” singing rock at Radio City Music Hall in Rockefeller Center; on Friday, March 15, 2024 at 8pm. From $78. 🇲🇽
Saturday, March 16, 2024
St Patrick’s Day Parade
Manhattan’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade marches up Fifth Avenue, from 44th St to 79th St on Saturday, March 16, 2024, from 11am to around 4:30pm. FREE. It’s not on St Patrick’s Day this year, because that is a Sunday. 🇮🇪
Children’s Film Festival
The 27th New York International Children’s Film Festival 2024 (NYICFF) continues at SVA Theatre, Scandinavia House, IFC Center, and DCTV in Manhattan. From $17. 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
Afro-Puerto Rican Big Band Jazz
Alex “Apolo” Ayala Big Band plays Afro-Puerto Rican big band jazz (25-piece); at Pregones/PRTT in Concourse, The Bronx; on March 16, 2024 at 7pm. From $18. 🇵🇷
Argentine Alternative
Singer-songwriter Federico Aubele (“Postales”) plays Argentine alternative from his 2023 album “Time Drips on my Bed;” at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 7pm. 🇦🇷
Flamenco Festival New York City Center
Gala Flamenca 24 features four dancers with their own unique styles and personalities: Manuel Linán, Alfonso Losa, El Yiyo, Paula Comitre, and singer Sandra Carrasco for the Flamenco Festival New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $45. nycitycenter.org 🇪🇸
Major League Soccer
WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT CELEBRATION
New York City Football Club vs Toronto FC is Major League Soccer at Yankee Stadium in Concourse, The Bronx; on Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $24. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇵🇷 🇸🇱 🇺🇾
French Classical Orchestra
Orchestre de Paris, conducted by Klaus Mäkelä, plays Stravinsky’s ballets “The Firebird” and “The Rite of Spring;” in the Stern Auditorium / Pereleman Strage at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 8pm. 🇫🇷
Puerto Rican 1980s Freestyle Hip Hop
Forever Freestyle 16 brings TKA, George Lamond, Judy Torres, Noel, Safire, Betty D (Sweet Sensation), The Cover Girls, Cynthia, Coro, C-Bank, and Two Without Hats, for a night of Puerto Rican freestyle hip hop; at Lehman Center in Jerome Park, The Bronx; on Saturday March 16, 2024 at 8pm. From $58. 🇵🇷
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, March 17, 2024
Latin Festival
Damballa, the Haitian Vodou loa of the masculine side of nature, is celebrated in Haiti and the Diaspora on March 17. 🇭🇹
Latin Festival
St Patrick’s Day celebrates the patron saint of Ireland. Many Irish descendants came to Latin America as indentured labor after abolition. Some fought in the Latin American wars of independence. 🇮🇪
Children’s Film Festival
The 27th New York International Children’s Film Festival 2024 (NYICFF) ends at SVA Theatre, Film Forum, and IFC Center in Manhattan. From $17. 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
Classical Music
In flutist Valerie Coleman’s “Portraits of Josephine,” an Orchestra of St Luke’s wind quartet is joined by actor and playwright Kirya Traber who narrates this tribute to the life of Josephine Baker, the legendary American French dancer, singer, and actress who went from St Louis vaudeville to New York’s Harlem Renaissance to Paris cabaret as an international star of The Jazz Age. It’s at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens; on Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 2pm. FREE with rsvp. Registration opens in early 2024. 🇺🇸
Flamenco Festival New York City Center
Gala Flamenca 24 features four dancers with their own unique styles and personalities: Manuel Linán, Alfonso Losa, El Yiyo, Paula Comitre, and singer Sandra Carrasco for the Flamenco Festival New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 2pm & 7pm. From $45. nycitycenter.org 🇪🇸
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Flamenco Festival New York
Raul Cantizano featuring Los Voluble “Zona Acordonada” play multimedia experimental flamenco dance music for the Flamenco Festival New York; at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 8:30pm. From $30 plus fees and minimums. 🇪🇸
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 March 18-24, 2024
Whitney Biennial 2024 is Even Better Than the Real Thing 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇨🇱 🇩🇴 🇸🇻 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇹🇹
Affordable Art Fair New York is a Great Place to Start Your Collection 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇪🇸
Harlem Renaissance Reborn: Reimagining the Past, Igniting the Future Conference at Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine 🇺🇸
Messi is Coming for New York Red Bulls vs Inter Miami CF 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇬🇦 🇬🇭 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇻🇪 ~ 🇦🇷
Spring in New York City is Blooming
Feast of Saint Joseph is Latin Father’s Day and Stepfather’s Day 🇧🇴 🇭🇳 🇮🇹 🇲🇿 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
Benito Juárez was the Indigenous Founding Father of Modern Mexico 🇲🇽
World Poetry Day Breathes Life into Words 🇺🇳
World Puppetry Day is Fun 🇺🇳
Puerto Rico Emancipation Day is a Good Day to Free Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Purim Celebrates Deliverance as Told in the Book of Esther ✡️
Holy Week is the Christian Spring Festival ✝️
Palm Sunday Starts Holy Week ✝️
Ramadan is the Muslim Sacred Month of Family, Community, and Charity ☪️
Monday, March 18, 2024
Travel
The third week of March is the peak of Spring Break.
Italian American Vintage Hot Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theatre at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Mondays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). $25. 🇮🇹
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, March 19, 2024
Spring
Spring blooms in New York City on Tuesday, March 19, 2024.
Latin Father’s Day and Stepfather’s Day
Feast of Saint Joseph is a Catholic festival that celebrates the Virgin Mary’s husband and traditional stepfather of Christ. It is also Latin Father’s Day and Stepfather’s Day. ✝️
French Opera ~ Puerto Rican Soprano
Puerto Rican soprano Nadine Sierra and French tenor Benjamin Bernheim star in “Roméo et Juliette, Charles Gounod’s French opera about Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers; at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center; on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $44. 🇫🇷 ~ 🇮🇹 🇵🇷
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Independence Day
Tunisia Independence Day is March 20, 1956. 🇹🇳
Latin Art
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, one of the most important surveys of contemporary American art, opens with 69 artists and two collectives; at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District; on March 20 – August 11, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇨🇱 🇩🇴 🇸🇻 🇮🇳 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇹🇹
Latin Art
Affordable Art Fair New York Spring is at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, Manhattan; from March 20-24, 2024.
Brazilian Alternative
Singer-songwriter Rodrigo Amarante (“Narcos” Netflix theme”) plays Brazilian alternative; at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 7pm & 9:30pm, and Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 7pm. From $30 plus fees and minimums. 🇧🇷
New York Modern Dance
OPENING NIGHT
Mark Morris Dance Group dances “The Look of Love” to Burt Bacharach with live music featuring vocalist Marcy Harriell; in the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 8pm. Through Saturday. From $35.
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, March 21, 2024
Birthday
Benito Juárez, the Indigenous founding father of modern Mexico was born in San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca, Mexico on March 21, 1806. There is a statue of him in Bryant Park. 🇲🇽
Independence Day
Namibia Independence Day is March 21, 1990. 🇳🇦
Latin Books Festival
World Poetry Day is a UNESCO celebration on March 21. 🇺🇳
Latin Theatre Festival
World Puppetry Day is a UNIMA (UNESCO) celebration on March 21. 🇺🇳
Classical Music
In flutist Valerie Coleman’s “Portraits of Josephine,” an Orchestra of St Luke’s wind quartet is joined by actor and playwright Kirya Traber who narrates this tribute to the life of Josephine Baker, the legendary American French dancer, singer, and actress who went from St Louis vaudeville to New York’s Harlem Renaissance to Paris cabaret as an international star of The Jazz Age. It’s at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 6pm. FREE with rsvp. Registration opens in early 2024. 🇺🇸
Haitian Kompa and Pop
Haitian multi-disciplinary artist Riva Nyri Precil performs Haitian kompa and pop; on the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) website, Facebook, and YouTube pages; on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 7pm. Free. 🇭🇹
Harlem Renaissance Conference
Renaissance Reborn: Reimagining the Past, Igniting the Future is a Black Arts conference celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance and the 25th Anniversary of the Classical Theatre of Harlem with an esteemed panel and a special performance by Grammy nominee Mykal Kilgore (Motown The Musical); at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights, Manhattan; on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 7pm. Free with rsvp. 🇺🇸
Dominican Afro Latina Film
“NEGRITA,” screening with Q&As with New York Dominican filmmaker Magdalena Albizu (@1nubianlatina), explores the experience of being a Black and Latin woman in America, through her own story and the stories of women from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Honduras, and Panama. It’s in the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇩🇴 🇭🇳 🇵🇦 🇵🇷
New York Modern Dance
Mark Morris Dance Group dances “The Look of Love” to Burt Bacharach with live music featuring vocalist Marcy Harriell; in the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 8pm. From $35.
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, March 22, 2024
Puerto Rican Festival
Puerto Rico Emancipation Day commemorates the abolition of the enslavement of humans, on March 22, 1873. 🇵🇷
Puerto Rican Art
Conzo: A Look Back at The Bronx, 1977-84, an exhibition of Bronx, hip hop, and salsa photography by Joe Conzo Jr, opens with a reception at The Bronx Documentary Center in Melrose, The Bronx; on Friday, March 22, 2024 from 6-9pm. On view through April 21, 2024. FREE. 🇺🇸 🇵🇷
New York Modern Dance
Mark Morris Dance Group dances “The Look of Love” to Burt Bacharach with live music featuring vocalist Marcy Harriell; in the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; on Frida, March 22, 2024 at 8pm. From $35.
Saturday, March 23, 2024
French Opera ~ Puerto Rican Soprano
Puerto Rican soprano Nadine Sierra and French tenor Benjamin Bernheim star in “Roméo et Juliette, Charles Gounod’s French opera about Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers; at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center; on Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 1pm. From $44. 🇫🇷 ~ 🇮🇹 🇵🇷
Latin Festival
Purim, a merry Jewish holiday that celebrates the bravery of biblical Queen Esther of Persia, is from sundown on Saturday, March 23, 2024, through Sunday. ✡️
Brazilian Alternative
Singer-songwriter Rodrigo Amarante (“Narcos” Netflix theme”) plays Brazilian alternative; at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 7pm. From $30 plus fees and minimums. 🇧🇷
Puerto Rican Afro-Cuban Jazz
Jazz and salsa trumpeter Pete Rodríguez (El Conde’s son and Cita’s brother) plays Afro-Cuban jazz; Pregones/PRTT in Concourse, The Bronx; on Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 7pm. From $18. 🇵🇷 🇨🇺
We hear Cita is sitting in. The entire family is super talentoso.
French Chanson Cabaret
Nathalie Lermitte “PIAF! The Show,” is an international hit tribute to chanson legend Edith Piaf; at The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 23, 2024, at 7:30pm. From $79. 🇫🇷
Major League Soccer
MESSI ~ Full Arena Flag Show
New York Red Bulls vs Inter Miami CF is Major League Soccer at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey; on Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $175. 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇬🇦 🇬🇭 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇻🇪
Messi is selling out stadiums everywhere he plays. Ticket prices are much higher for this game, but at least you can buy tickets. NYCFC is only selling Inter Miami games with season tickets, boxes, and packages. This is your best chance to see Messi in Metro New York.
Women in Latin Jazz Festival
Annette A. Aguilar & Stringbeans is joined by Fabiana Cozza from Brazil and Catarina dos Santos from Portugal, Harlem Samba and more; in the Main Theater at Hostos Center at Hostos College (CUNY) in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Saturday, March 23, 2023 at 8pm. $20. Students/Under 18 $5. 🇳🇮 🇧🇷 🇵🇹
New York Modern Dance
Mark Morris Dance Group dances “The Look of Love” to Burt Bacharach with live music featuring vocalist Marcy Harriell; in the Howard Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; on Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 8pm. From $35.
Chilean Jazz
Claudia Acuña sings Latin jazz; at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 9:30pm. From $25 plus fees and minimums. 🇨🇱
Rare Groove, Classic House Party
Rich Medina HOME is a classic house party tribute to the legendary Paradise Garage (1977-87); in the Onyx Room at the House of Yes dance club in Bushwick, Brooklyn; on Saturday, March 23, 2024, from 10pm – 4am. From $18. 🇺🇸
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, March 24, 2024
Latin Festival
Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, and starts Holy Week, the Christian spring festival. ✝️
African American Gospel for Easter
World Famous Harlem Gospel Choir, sings African American gospel; at the Blue Note jazz club in Greenwich Village; on Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 1:30pm. $35. 🇺🇸
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Chilean French Hip Hop
Ana Tijoux sings Chilean hip hop from her new album “Vida;” at Le Poisson Rouge in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village; on Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 7:30pm (6:30pm doors). From $35. 🇨🇱
Women’s Salsa, Brass, and House
Lulada Club, New York’s Cali Colombian-led, all-women salsa orchestra celebrates their “La Palma” album release, with the all-women Brass Queens New Orleans brass band, and the always Sunny Cheeba spinning salsa vinyl; at Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; on Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 8pm (6pm doors). $20. 🇨🇴 🇺🇸 🇵🇷
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 March 25-31, 2024
Worm Moon is a Native American Name for the March Full Moon
Holi is the Hindu Spring Festival of Colors and Love 🕉️
Annunciation Celebrates Archangel Gabriel Telling Mary She Was Pregnant ✝️
Holy Week is the Christian Spring Festival ✝️
Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian Nobel Prize for Literature Winner 🇵🇪
Good Friday is a Christian Commemoration of the Crucifixion ✝️
Easter is the Christian Spring Festival ✝️
Cesar Chavez Day Honors the Great Mexican American Labor Leader 🇲🇽
Ramadan is the Muslim Sacred Month of Family, Community, and Charity ☪️
Monday, March 25 2024
Full Moon
The Worm Moon, March full moon, is March 25, 2024.
Hindu Spring Festival
Holi; the festival of colors, love, and spring; is the Hindu spring festival. 🕉️
Latin Festival
The Annunciation commemorates the story of Archangel Gabriel telling the Virgin Mary that she was pregnant. ✝️
Italian American Vintage Hot Jazz
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks play vintage hot jazz in the Birdland Theatre at Birdland jazz club in Hell’s Kitchen; on Mondays at 5:30pm (4:30pm doors) & 8:30pm (7:30pm door). $25. 🇮🇹
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. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Cameroonian American Jazz Singer
Ekep Nkwelle sings jazz; at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Monday, March 25, 2024 at 7pm and 9pm. From $20. 🇨🇲 🇺🇸
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. 🇵🇷
Latin Jazz and Salsa
Puerto Rican NEA Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri, one of New York’s elder jazzmen, plays Latin jazz and salsa in his Spring Residency; at the Blue Note New York in Greenwich Village on Monday, March 25, 2024 at 8pm & 10:30pm (6 & 10pm doors). From $35. 🇵🇷
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Flamenco Tablao
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana brings Spanish flamenco tablao; to the Main Space at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village, Manhattan: on Tuesday-Wednesday, March 26-27, 2024 at 6:30pm. From $25. 🇪🇸
Tania León Curates New Music From Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the United States
Tania León curates American new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound in a musical portrait of 21st-century America with compositions by artists originally from around the world. Tania León (Cuba) “Toque” and “Gran Toque.” Chris P. Thompson (Los Angeles) “Hanabi.” Christian Quiñones (Puerto Rico) “Hasta que no pueda.” Damon Davis (St. Louis) “Ligeia Mare: The Radio Opera, Episode 4.” Elijah Daniel Smith (Chicago) “Vermilion Glare.” Texu Kim (Korea) “Līlā.” Bora Yoon (Chicago) “Casual Miracles.” It’s in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall; on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $54. 🇨🇺 🇵🇷 🇰🇷 🇺🇸
Malian Afrobeats
Ivorian born singer-songwriter Fatoumata Diawara brings her Malian afrobeats to Sony Hall in the Times Square Theater District; on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 8pm. From $38. 🇨🇮 🇲🇱
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Eduardo Vilaro Ballet Hispánico Artistic Director Talks
Eduardo Vilaro, Ballet Hispánico Artistic Director and CEO, records a Randy Cohen Person Place Thing podcast about a person, place, and thing he finds meaningful, with music by Ahmed Alom; at the Ballet Hispánico studios in Manhattan’s Upper West Side; on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at 6pm. Free with rsvp to macuna@ballethispanico.org
Flamenco Tablao
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana brings Spanish flamenco tablao; to the Main Space at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village, Manhattan: on Tuesday-Wednesday, March 26-27, 2024 at 6:30pm. From $25. 🇪🇸
French Opera ~ Puerto Rican Soprano
Puerto Rican soprano Nadine Sierra and French tenor Benjamin Bernheim star in “Roméo et Juliette, Charles Gounod’s French opera about Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers; at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $44. 🇫🇷 ~ 🇮🇹 🇵🇷
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, March 28, 2024
Latin Festival
Maundy Thursday commemorates the washing of the feet and the Last Supper; on Thursday, March 28, 2024. ✝️
Peruvian Author Birthday
Mario Vargas Llosa, 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature winner, was born in Arequipa, Peru on March 28, 1936. He now lives in Spain. 🇵🇪 🇪🇸
Mets Baseball Home Opener
HOME OPENER
New York Mets vs Philadelphia Brewers; is Major League Baseball; at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 1:10pm. From $59. 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Brazilian Samba Bossa Nova Jazz
Drummer Duduka da Fonseca, vocalist Maucha Adnet, and pianist Helio Alves play Brazilian jazz from samba to bossa nova; at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 7pm and 9pm. Through Sunday. From $20. 🇧🇷
Trinidadian New York Hip Hop
Nicki Minaj “Pink Friday 2 World Tour” brings the fiercely playful Trinidadian New York rapper to Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey; on Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 8pm. From $115. 🇹🇹 🗽
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, March 29, 2024
Latin Festival
Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus. ✝️
Italian Film
“La Chimera” (2023) by Alice Rohrwacher, a magical realism tale of a troubled Englishman who joins a group of Italian tomb raiders while dreaming of his lost love, opens at Film at Lincoln Center; on Friday, March 29, 2024. In Italian with English subtitles. 🇮🇹
African Diaspora Film
African Diaspora International Film Festival 2024 screens twelve films by women filmmakers from Haiti, Bangladesh, Chad, Morocco, Samoa, Ethiopia, Australia, Tunisia, and the United States. Opening night film is “Looking for Life” about how Haitian women help each other survive. It’s at Teacher’s College, Columbia University; from Friday-Sunday, March 29-31, 2024. From $11. Weekend Pass $45. Free to Teachers College students and staff with valid ID. 🇦🇺 🇧🇩 🇹🇩 🇪🇹 🇭🇹 🇲🇦 🇼🇸 🇺🇸
Get the Weekend Pass and go see all the films you can. It’s a really interesting film festival that shows how we are many branches from the same roots.
Brazilian Samba Bossa Nova Jazz
Drummer Duduka da Fonseca, vocalist Maucha Adnet, and pianist Helio Alves play Brazilian jazz from samba to bossa nova; at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Friday, March 29, 2024 at 7pm and 9pm. From $20. 🇧🇷
French Le Hot Club Jazz
Catherine Russell takes you back to the swinging French jazz of Le Hot Club in 1930s Paris; in the Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Friday-Saturday, March 29-30, 2024 at 7pm & 9:30pm. From $66. 🇺🇸 🇫🇷
African American Jazz, Bebop, Chamber Music, Hip Hop, Afro-Everything
Trumpeter Ambros Akinmusire presents his “Banyan Seed” project which explores how jazz grew into bebop, chamber music, hip hop, and now Afro-everything; at Harlem Stage in Morningside Heights, West Harlem; on Friday, March 29, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $25. 🇺🇸 🇸🇸 🇺🇬
African American Pop Orchestra
Orchestra Noir Presents: Y2K Meets 90s Vibe, the Atlanta African American orchestra, brings their super high-energy classical take on contemporary pop music; to The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, March 29, 2024 at 8pm. From $82. 🇺🇸
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, March 29, 2024 at 10pm. From $25. 🇵🇷
Saturday, March 30, 2024
French Opera ~ Puerto Rican Soprano
Puerto Rican soprano Nadine Sierra and French tenor Benjamin Bernheim star in “Roméo et Juliette, Charles Gounod’s French opera about Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers; at the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center; on Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 1pm. From $44. 🇫🇷 ~ 🇮🇹 🇵🇷
African Diaspora Film
African Diaspora International Film Festival 2024 screens twelve films by women filmmakers from Haiti, Bangladesh, Chad, Morocco, Samoa, Ethiopia, Australia, Tunisia, and the United States; at Teacher’s College, Columbia University; from Friday-Sunday, March 29-31, 2024. From $11. Weekend Pass $45. Free to Teachers College students and staff with valid ID. 🇦🇺 🇧🇩 🇹🇩 🇪🇹 🇭🇹 🇲🇦 🇼🇸 🇺🇸
African American Gospel
World Famous Harlem Gospel Choir, sings African American gospel for Easter; at Sony Hall in the Times Square Theater District; on Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 1:30pm. From $30. 🇺🇸
Mets Baseball
New York Mets vs Philadelphia Brewers; is Major League Baseball; at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 1:40pm. From $24. 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Cuban & Japanese Classical Composers
Two master international composers Tania León (Cuban American) and Mitsuko Uchida (Japanese Austrian English) discuss their musical influences and the role of timeless music today; in the Resnick Education Wing, at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 4pm. $23. carnegiehall.org 🇨🇺 🇯🇵
Brazilian Samba Bossa Nova Jazz
Drummer Duduka da Fonseca, vocalist Maucha Adnet, and pianist Helio Alves play Brazilian jazz from samba to bossa nova; at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 7pm and 9pm. From $20. 🇧🇷
Italian American Comedy
An Evening with Eric D’Alessandro brings the New Yorker’s Italian American comedy to The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $40. 🇮🇹
Trinidadian Rap
Nicki Minaj “Pink Friday 2 World Tour” brings the fiercely playful Trinidadian New York rapper to Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 8pm. From $165. 🇹🇹 🗽
Puerto Rican Salsa
La Sonora Ponceña, led by Papo Lucca, celebrates 70 years of Cuban son-influenced salsa from Ponce, Puerto Rico; at Lehman Center in Jerome Park, The Bronx; on Saturday March 30, 2024 at 8pm. From $58. 🇵🇷
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, March 31, 2024
Birthday
Cesar Chavez Day celebrates the birth of the Mexican American union leader and civil rights activist in Yuma, Arizona on March 31, 1927. 🇲🇽
Latin Spring Festival
Easter, the Christian spring festival, is the most sacred time in Christianity. ✝️
Latin Parade
The Easter Parade NYC 2024 is on Fifth Avenue from 49th to 57th St, on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024 from 10am to 4pm. FREE
African Diaspora Film
African Diaspora International Film Festival 2024 screens twelve films by women filmmakers from Haiti, Bangladesh, Chad, Morocco, Samoa, Ethiopia, Australia, Tunisia, and the United States; at Teacher’s College, Columbia University; from Friday-Sunday, March 29-31, 2024. From $11. Weekend Pass $45. Free to Teachers College students and staff with valid ID. 🇦🇺 🇧🇩 🇹🇩 🇪🇹 🇭🇹 🇲🇦 🇼🇸 🇺🇸
Mets Baseball
New York Mets vs Philadelphia Brewers; is Major League Baseball; at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 1:40pm. From $24. 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Brazilian Samba Bossa Nova Jazz
Drummer Duduka da Fonseca, vocalist Maucha Adnet, and pianist Helio Alves play Brazilian jazz from samba to bossa nova; at Dizzy’s Club in Jazz at Lincoln Center; on Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 7pm and 9pm. From $20. 🇧🇷
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. 🇨🇺