Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Haitian Heritage Month celebrations are among the many Latin things to do in NYC in May 2026.
There are also Cinco de Mayo celebrations, Frieze Week contemporary art fairs, Dance Parade, and Memorial Day Weekend Festivals including: Loisaida Festival, DanceAfrica, BIG Salsa Festival, and more.
Sponsors
Gabriela Montero “Iberia” piano recital showing the Spanish influence on piano repertoire at 92NY in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Thursday, May 14 at 7:30pm. 🇻🇪
LATIN FESTIVALS
Cinco de Mayo 🇲🇽
French defeat at Puebla 1862 is America’s festival of Mexican culture
Citywide
May 5, Tue
Mother’s Day
U.S. and International
May 10, Sun
Dance Parade & DanceFest
East Village
May 16, Sat
Harlem Stage Renaissance Gala 2026 🇺🇸
Chairs: Angela Glover Blackwell, Misty Copeland, Camille A. Brown
Harlem Stage at Rainbow Room, Rockefeller Center
May 18, Mon, 7pm
$1,500+
Loisaida Festival 🇵🇷
East Village
May 24, Sun
Memorial Day 🇺🇸
Remember those who died serving
May 25, Mon
George Floyd Day 🇺🇸
He changed the world a little bit
May 25, 2020
Dominican Mother’s Day 🇩🇴
Grand Finale of the Catholic Month of Mary
May 31, Sun
ART
Frieze New York
NYC’s big spring contemporary art fair
The Shed, Hudson Yards
May 13-17, Wed-Sun
$56+
COMEDY
Raymond Pozo y Miguel Céspedes, humor para las madres 🇩🇴
The Legends La Sinfónica, merengue típico de gala 🇩🇴
For Dominican Mother’s Day (May 31)
La Casa del Mofongo and Piano Bar 207, Inwood
May 29, Fri, 9pm doors
DANCE
KR3TS “Breakin’ the Code” Gala 🇵🇷
Hip hop street dance
Host: D-Stroy, Artist: Gabriel Emphasis, Poets: La Bruja & Messiah
Hostos Center, Main Theater; Mott Haven, The Bronx
– May 1, Fri, 7:30pm, $31
– May 2, Sat; Pre-Gala 6pm $111, Show 8pm $49
$31+
Tickets kr3ts.com
Orlando Hernández & The Knee-Heart Connection
“Too Soon to Discover Planets, Too Late to Discover Islands” 🇵🇷
Physical theater of tap dance and masks to live music
Inspired by Taíno and colonial Puerto Rican history
Hostos Center, Mott Haven, The Bronx
May 9, Sat, 7:30pm
FREE with RSVP
Dance Parade & DanceFest
Flatiron to Tompkins Square Park
May 16, Sat
BIG Salsa Festival
Salsa and bachata dance festival
New York Hilton Midtown
May 21-25, Thu-Mon, Memorial Day Weekend
DanceAfrica 🌍
African and Diasporic dance festival with community rituals, performances, and a bazaar
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
May 22-25, Fri-Mon
$21+
Latin Dance (Social Dancing)
Latin Mondays NYC 20th Anniversary 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪 🇺🇸
Talia Castro-Pozo
Dancing to live salsa bands
5th & Mad, Midtown South
Mondays, 5pm doors, 7pm lesson, 8pm dancing, Live Sets 9pm & 11pm
– May 4 20th Anniversary Finale, Oscar Dudamel y Su Orquesta 🇻🇪
MUSIC
Peso Pluma “Dinastía Tour” 🇲🇽
Música Mexicana, urban corridos tumbados
“London,” “Vino Tinto,” “Hollywood”
UBS Arena, Elmont, Long Island
May 1, Fri, 8pm
$56+
El Rubio Acordeón 🇩🇴
Típico Urbano leader making merengue cool again
La Casa del Mofongo and Piano Bar 207, Inwood
May 2, Sat
Ladies free all night
Yordis Larrazábal 🇨🇺
Cuban timba, salsa, and son
Drom, East Village
May 2, Sat, 10:30pm doors, 11pm show
$25+
Orchestra of St. Luke’s with Joseph Parrish “Finding an American Voice” 🇺🇸 🇨🇿
Collaborations of Black composer Harry T. Burleigh and Czech composer Antonín Dvořák
Hostos Center, Main Theater; Mott Haven, The Bronx
May 7, Thu, 7:30pm
FREE with RSVP
Son Rompe Pera 🇲🇽
Mexican marimba cumbia punk
World Music Institute at Brooklyn Bowl, Williamsburg
May 8, Fri, 8pm
$25+
Gabriela Montero “Iberia” 🇻🇪 🇪🇸
Venezuelan-born pianist recital showing Spain’s influence on piano repertoire including: Albéniz, Granados, and Alicia de Larrocha
92NY, Kaufmann Concert Hall, Upper East Side
May 14, Thu, 7:30pm
$45+, Streaming $25+
Roy Brown & Zoraida Santiago 🇵🇷
“De la Tierra en que nací” (From the land where I was born)
Puerto Rican Jíbaro music
Hostos Center, Repertory Theater; Mott Haven, The Bronx
May 23, Sat, 7:30pm
From $43
Raymond Pozo y Miguel Céspedes, humor para las madres 🇩🇴
The Legends La Sinfónica, merengue típico de gala 🇩🇴
La Casa del Mofongo and Piano Bar 207, Inwood
For Dominican Mother’s Day (May 31)
May 29, Fri, 9pm doors
SPORTS
New York Mets 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪
Citi Field, Flushing Meadows, Queens
May 15-17, Fri-Sun Subway Series vs New York Yankees
May 25, Mon, Memorial Day vs Cincinnati Reds
May 26, Tue, Giveaway vs Cincinnati Reds
May 29, Fri, Fireworks Night & Giveway vs Miami Marlins