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Melvis Santa & Jazz Orishas Sing Afro-Cuban Jazz at the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY, Brooklyn Heights 🇨🇺
Pedrito Martinez Joins Hip Hop Jazz Singer José James at the Blue Note
BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan José James’ guest, hip hop jazz 🇨🇺 🇮🇪 🇵🇦
DROM, East Village, Manhattan; rumba, timba, jazz 🇨🇺
Tania León Curates New Music at Carnegie Hall
TANIA LEÓN CURATES NEW MUSIC
Alarm Will Sound 🇨🇺 🇵🇷 🇰🇷 🇺🇸
Tania León and Mitsuko Uchida timeless music today 🇨🇺 🇯🇵
Ensemble Modern 🇩🇪 ~ 🇨🇺 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇿🇦
David Virelles Nosotros Ensemble with Dafnis Prieto Cuban jazz 🇨🇺
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan
Buena Vista Social Club™ is now a Saheem Ali musical about a band of retired Cubans who made the whole world dance again, at the Atlantic Theater Company
ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY, Chelsea, Manhattan ~ A World Premiere Saheem Ali musical, with a famous creative team, a great New York cast, and a truly inspiring story. “Chan Chan” 🇨🇺
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Plays Sunday Nights at Birdland
BIRDLAND, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan ~ The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra keeps Latin big band traditions alive in New York City. 🇨🇺
Dayramir Gonzalez Plays the Art of Cuban Piano at Ideal Glass Atrium
IDEAL GLASS STUDIOS, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇨🇺
Machito & His Afro-Cubans Defined Cubop Which We Now Call Latin Jazz
HAVANA, Cuba ~ December 3, 1907 🇨🇺
Dafnis Prieto and Luciana Souza Play the New York Debut of their Romantic Jazz Album “Cantar” at Harlem Stage
The master drummer and master vocalist bring Cuban jazz and Brazilian bossa nova together in the most romantic way.
HARLEM STAGE in Manhattanville, West Harlem
Friday, October 27, 2023
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Celia Cruz, “The Queen of Salsa,” Popularized Latin Music Around the World
HAVANA, Cuba, October 21, 1925 🇨🇺
Omara Portuondo, the Last of the Buena Vista Social Club, Brings Her “Farewell World Tour Vida” to Sony Hall and NJ PAC
SONY HALL, Times Square Theater District 🇨🇺
NEW JERSEY CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Newark, New Jersey 🇨🇺
Cimafunk, “the James Brown of Cuba,” Plays Timba Backed by Chucho Valdés and Pedrito Martinez at the Blue Note
One of the hottest young singers out of Cuba gets everyone dancing.
Thursday-Sunday, September 28 – October 1, 2023
BLUE NOTE in Greenwich Village
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Luis Santeiro’s “Dancing With Dictators” is a Heartfelt Cabaret with the Music and Rhythms of Cuba
The multiple Emmy Award-winning writer for “¿Qué Pasa, USA?” and “Sesame Street” tells his family story from pre-Castro Cuba to Latino All-American. He is the American Dream!
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
Thursday, May 4, 2023
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Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita with Gustavo Ovalles Revisit “Suba” and the Connections Between Cuba and Mother Africa
Thursday, May 4, 2023
ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM
Boerum Hill (Downtown), Brooklyn
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Daymé Arocena Joins Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra in a Dizzy, Chano and Chico Tribute at The Town Hall
Saturday, January 14, 2023
THE TOWN HALL
Midtown, Manhattan
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Graciela of Machito & His Afro-Cubans Was Great Latin Jazz Singer
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
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Arsenio Rodríguez, “El Ciego Maravilloso,” Added Horns and Conga to Son Montuno
GÜIRA DE MACURIJES, Matanzas, Cuba ~ August 31, 1911 🇨🇺
Axel Tosca Trio Featuring Xiomara Laugart Play Cuban Jazz at Zinc Bar
Thursday, September 29, 2022
ZINC BAR
Greenwich Village, Manhattan
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Los Van Van Plays Cuban Timba at La Boom
Friday, May 13, 2022
LA BOOM
Woodside, Queens
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Gerardo Contino y Los Habaneros Play Cuban Timba at Terraza 7
TERRAZA 7, Elmhurst, Queens 🇨🇺
Xiomara Laugart Celebrates Mi Salsa Kitchen’s 1st Anniversary with Cuban Timba
MI SALSA KITCHEN, Lower East Side, Manhattan ~ From Guantamano, to Yerba Buena, to Broadway, Xiomara will sooth your soul. 🇨🇺
Arturo Sandoval Thinks of Dizzy Gillespie Every Day
Wed-Sun, December 4-8, 2019
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC ~ The jazz legend of Irakere, Dizzy Gillespie and Danzón plays the Blue Note
Zilia Sánchez: Eros is a Cuban Artist Who Lives in Puerto Rico
November 21, 2019 – January 18, 2020
GALERIE LELONG
Chelsea, Manhattan
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Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla at El Museo says “I am an Island”
November 20, 2019 – March 22, 2020
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
East Harlem, Manhattan
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Carlos Acosta, the Cuban Ballet Legend, is “Yuli”
Sunday, July 14, 2019
LINCOLN CENTER, NYC ~ This inspiring movie tells the life story of Cuban ballet dance legend Carlos Acosta (Royal Ballet, Acosta Danza)
Tiempo Libre Plays Cuban Timba at Purchase College
Sunday, April 7, 2019
PURCHASE, New York ~ Three-time Grammy nominees play Cuban timba dance music at Purchase College
Malena & Lena Burke share an evening of Cuban boleros at Hostos
Saturday, March 30, 2019
CONCOURSE, The Bronx ~ One of the great families of Cuban bolero singers. ‘Contigo Aprendi,’ ‘Me Voy Pa’l Pueblo,’ ‘La Longina’ and ‘Total.’
Ballet Contemporáneo de Camagüey Brings Cuban Contemporary Dance to Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
UPPER EAST SIDE; Wed, Mar 13, 2019; Cuban contemporary dance theatre ~ U.S. debut dancing three Pedro Ruiz ballets
Elio Villafranca Tells Stories of the African Diaspora on His Piano
BELMONT, THE BRONX, Sun, Jan 27, 2019 ~ The jazz composer of the African diaspora joins Mary Ann Sweeney & Bronx Arts Ensemble to play one of the jazz greats, Charles Mingus. African Cuban jazz live music. FREE
Compañia Irene Rodríguez, One of Cuba’s Leading Flamenco Companies, is at the Joyce Theater
Friday-Sunday, January 18-20, 2019
JOYCE THEATER, NYC
One of Cuba’s leading flamenco dance companies returns to New York
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Los Hijos del Director Cuban Contemporary Dance at The Joyce
CHELSEA, Tue-Wed, January 15-16, 2019 ~ One of Cuba’s most daring contemporary dance makers, George Céspedes, makes his U.S. debut at the Joyce Cuba Festival.
# cuban contemporary dance festival
Malpaso Cuban Contemporary Dance at the Joyce Theater
CHELSEA, Jan 9-13, 2019, Wed-Sun ~ Cuba’s leading international contemporary dance company opens the Joyce Cuba Festival with Ohad Naharin’s “Tabula Rasa.”
# cuban israeli contemporary dance
Lourdes Lopez, Miami City Ballet Artistic Director (Interview)
NEW YORK CITY; Dec 3, 2018; Cuban ballet leader ~ Lourdes Lopez, Miami City Ballet Artistic Director, former New York City Ballet Principal, talks about being a Cuban immigrant, family, opportunity, dancing for Balanchine and Robbins, the future of ballet and who we really are
Septeto Santiaguero Plays Cuban Son for Carnegie Hall Citywide at the Brooklyn Museum
BROOKLYN MUSEUM, Prospect Park, Brooklyn ~ The successors to the Buena Vista Social Club play traditional Cuban son with contemporary influences. 🇨🇺
Narciso Rodriguez is a Famous Cuban Fashion Designer
Bergdorf Goodman
Midtown, Manhattan
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Barneys New York
Upper East Side
Chelsea
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Saks Fifth Avenue
Midtown East, Manhattan
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Intermix
Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Meatpacking, West Village, SoHo
Arturo O’Farrill and Friends ¡ Adelante Cuba ¡ Festival at New York City Center
Saturday, April 28, 2018
New York City Center
Midtown, Manhattan
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Acosta Danza is Carlos Acosta’s Contemporary Dance Company
The Royal Ballet legend is debuting his new Cuban contemporary ballet company.
New York City Center
Midtown, Manhattan
Wednesday – Friday
April 25 – 27, 2018
Lena Burke, Malena Burke, and Xiomara Laugart are Cuban Voices at Hostos
MOTT HAVEN, THE BRONX; Fri, Mar 23, 2018; Cuban bolero ~ Lena once starred in a movie as La Lupe. Her mom Malena is the daughter of bolero legend Elena Burke. Xiomara once starred Off-Broadway as Celia Cruz.
Malpaso Dance Company, Cuban Contemporary Dance
JOYCE THEATER, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇨🇺
Gustavo Acosta “Inventory of Omissions” is Cuban Contemporary Art at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel
Cuban contemporary artist
532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel
532 West 25th St, Chelsea
September 8 – October 14, 2017
Belkis Ayón ‘NKAME’ Cuban prints at El Museo del Barrio
EAST HARLEM, Wed-Sun, Jun 13 to Nov 5, 2017 ~ Prints of the secret dreams of Africa.
# cuban print art exhibition
Carmen Herrera “Paintings on Paper” Shows the Cuban Abstractionist at Lisson Gallery
Cuban New Yorker
Lisson Gallery
504 West 24th St, Chelsea
May 3 – June 10, 2017
Teresita Fernández is a Respected Cuban American Artist
The Cuban-American plays with the way we see landscapes in Fire (America) at Lehmann Maupin Chrystie Street Fri, Mar 17 – May 20, 2017
Cucu Diamantes is a Cuban Singer and Actress
The Cuban singer-songwriter, actress and humanitarian brings her sassy style to Subrosa Friday-Saturday December 9-10, 2016.