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The Pablo Mayor Folklore Urbano Orchestra Plays Colombian Salsa for Uptown Nights at Harlem Stage

Harlem Stage celebrates their 40th anniversary season with the launch of the "Uptown Nights Latin Music Series." Kicking off the series on Friday, September 22, is Pablo Mayor’s Folklore Urbano Orchestra.  Get ready for an evening of music and dancing!  Choreographer, dancer, and Harlem Stage commissioned artist, Daniel Fetecua, will teach a pre-concert salsa, cumbia, and … [Read more...] about The Pablo Mayor Folklore Urbano Orchestra Plays Colombian Salsa for Uptown Nights at Harlem Stage

Yasser Tejeda Grows Danceable Latin Alternative From Dominican Folk Roots

Yasser Tejeda in New York City Dominican alternative singer-songwriter Yasser Tejeda plays a special Uptown Nights Latin Music Series show for Harlem Stage, the World Music Institute and Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI). New York Haitian DJ Sabine Blaizin (Oyasound) keeps the room moving with a little Afro-Everything before and after the show at … [Read more...] about Yasser Tejeda Grows Danceable Latin Alternative From Dominican Folk Roots

Drums Along the Hudson is a Native American & Multicultural Celebration of Drum, Song & Dance

Drums Along the Hudson 2023 is a Native American pow wow that has evolved into a multicultural celebration of drum, song and dance. No matter where you or your family are from, every culture has a drum! This celebration is held in Inwood Hill Park on the site of the old Lenape village, Manahatta's first nation. Of course, it's the most beautiful spot on the island. The … [Read more...] about Drums Along the Hudson is a Native American & Multicultural Celebration of Drum, Song & Dance

Calpulli Mexican Dance Company “Monarcas” Celebrates the Contributions and Sacrifices Mexican Immigrants Make for the USA

Calpulli Mexican Dance Company "Monarcas", a folkloric dance series celebrating the contributions and sacrifices Mexican immigrants make for the USA; premieres at the Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Saturday-Sunday, May 27-28, 2023. From $27. queenstheatre.org 🇲🇽 SHARE Calpulli Mexican Dance Company "Monarcas" This is the beginning of a … [Read more...] about Calpulli Mexican Dance Company “Monarcas” Celebrates the Contributions and Sacrifices Mexican Immigrants Make for the USA

Dance Parade NYC 2023 DanceFest Gets over 10,000 New Yorkers Dancing in the Streets

The 17th Dance Parade NYC 2023 is dancing in the streets with over 100 styles of dance, from Sixth Avenue at 17th St in Chelsea, to the DanceFest at Tompkins Square Park in the East Village; on Saturday, May 20, 2023 starting at 11:45am. FREE! 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇹🇹 Dance Parade NYC 2023 Parade Route The parade starts on Sixth Avenue this year. It is … [Read more...] about Dance Parade NYC 2023 DanceFest Gets over 10,000 New Yorkers Dancing in the Streets

Afro-Andean Funk, featuring Araceli Poma & Matt Geraghty, Plays Cumbia for Dancing

Afro-Andean Funk is Peruvian singer Araceli Poma and American multi-instrumentalist Matt Geraghty. The New York City-based band fuses Afro-Peruvian musical traditions with American R&B and a world of influences. Afro-Andean Funk Afro-Andean Funk is a Latin Grammy-nominated band rooted in Afro-Peruvian tradition, but fused with R&B, rock and jazz. Their … [Read more...] about Afro-Andean Funk, featuring Araceli Poma & Matt Geraghty, Plays Cumbia for Dancing

Cinco de Mayo Festival Del Son Features Son Huasteco, Son Jaliscience and Son Jarocho

Cinco de Mayo Festival Del Son 2023 is Mexican music and dance festival featuring Son Huasteco, Son Jaliscience and Son Jarocho at Kupferberg Center's Colden Auditorium at Queens College (CUNY) in Flushing, Queens; on Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 3pm. From $30. kupferbergcenter.org 🇲🇽 Cinco de Mayo Festival del Son 2023 Regional Mexican is America's most popular Latin … [Read more...] about Cinco de Mayo Festival Del Son Features Son Huasteco, Son Jaliscience and Son Jarocho

Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita with Gustavo Ovalles Revisit “Suba” and the Connections Between Cuba and Mother Africa

Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita, with Gustavo Ovalles, bring Cuba and Mother Africa back together in "Suba" which means "sunrise" in Mandinka. From Cuba, Africa is where the sun rises. By coming together in our roots, this group makes the most ethereal music. It's not what we call "soul music" in the United States, but it is soul music by every other definition. We've been … [Read more...] about Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita with Gustavo Ovalles Revisit “Suba” and the Connections Between Cuba and Mother Africa

Queens Theatre is the Premiere Performing Arts Center in Queens

The Queens Theatre, in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, is the premiere performing arts center in Queens, NYC, America's most diverse county. It presents Latin dance, film, music, and theatre. The annual Latin Culture and Dance Fiesta is a great festival of us. Queens is the home of many Latin communities, and many immigrant communities. To be Latin is to be a little bit of … [Read more...] about Queens Theatre is the Premiere Performing Arts Center in Queens

Villalobos Brothers Play Their Unique Blend of Mexican Folk, Jazz, Classical at Pregones/PRTT

The Villalobos Brothers make high-energy classical pop with a world of musical influences from a base of Mexican tradition with social consciousness in the mix. The Villalobos Brothers play their unique blend of Regional Mexican folk, jazz and classical; at Pregones/PRTT in Concourse, The Bronx; on Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 7pm. From $18+fees, $10 to stream. 🇲🇽 The … [Read more...] about Villalobos Brothers Play Their Unique Blend of Mexican Folk, Jazz, Classical at Pregones/PRTT

Robert Browning Associates is a Pioneering Global Music Producer

Robert Browning Associates is a pioneering global music (world music) producer of music and dance from the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Robert and Helene Browning are the lead producers. It's home stage is Roulette Intermedium in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Thank you for sponsoring Latin music and dance at New York Latin Culture Magazine. We are … [Read more...] about Robert Browning Associates is a Pioneering Global Music Producer

globalFEST 2023 Brings Global Music to David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center

globalFEST 2023 is a global music conference and showcase during the APAP convention of presenters, artists, and booking agents in January. Global music used to be called world music. It's basically the music of Mother Africa and Asia. globalFEST 2023 globalFESt 2023 brings global classical, cumbia, flamenco, folk, gospel, rock, rhythm & blues, and salsa; to … [Read more...] about globalFEST 2023 Brings Global Music to David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center

Prototype Festival 2023

The Prototype Festival 2023 of contemporary opera and musical theater presents great new voices during the APAP convention of presenters and booking agents. It's produced by Beth Morrison Projects and HERE, the energy behind a lot of great musical theatre in New York City. Prototype Festival 2023 The Prototype Festival 2023 of contemporary opera and musical theater … [Read more...] about Prototype Festival 2023

Danza Fiesta Dances Puerto Rican Bomba, Plena & Seis at Hostos Center

Danza Fiesta is one of the leading Puerto Rican folkloric dance theatre organizations in the Diaspora. Danza Fiesta in New York City Danza Fiesta, one of the leading folkloric dance theater organizations in the Puerto Rican Diaspora, celebrates their 25th Anniversary with a family presentation of Bomba, Plena and Seis (Jíbaro music) at the South Bronx Folk Festival at … [Read more...] about Danza Fiesta Dances Puerto Rican Bomba, Plena & Seis at Hostos Center

Leyla McCalla Joins Rhiannon Giddens for an African American Women’s Banjo Quartet in “Songs of Our Native Daughters” at Carnegie Hall

Leyla McCalla is a New Orleans Haitian Creole singer-songwriter who is one of the great American voices. She is a bridge from the sweet Caribbean music of Haiti and New Orleans to Country Music of the United States. Yes Country Music of the United States has African roots. You'd think it was the exception that proved the rule that most American popular culture originated in … [Read more...] about Leyla McCalla Joins Rhiannon Giddens for an African American Women’s Banjo Quartet in “Songs of Our Native Daughters” at Carnegie Hall

Calpulli Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Brings the Mexican Family Celebration of Life to the Hostos Center Stage

Calpulli Día de los Muertos is a Broadway-style show that brings the Day of the Dead, the Mexican family festival of life, to the stage with rich storytelling, beautiful costumes, great music, and impressive dancing. Calpulli "Día de Los Muertos" (Day of the Dead) Calpulli "Día de los Muertos," dance theatre about the Day of the Dead, the Mexican family celebration of … [Read more...] about Calpulli Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Brings the Mexican Family Celebration of Life to the Hostos Center Stage

Natalia Lafourcade Makes Her Carnegie Hall Debut With Music From Her Coming Album

Natalia Lafourcade is a Mexican Pop Rock and Folk singer who is one of the most successful Latin American singers. She blends Pop Rock and Regional Mexican musical traditions. She was born into a musical family in Mexico City in 1984, but considers herself from Veracruz, Mexico's Caribbean gateway city. Her father is French Chilean. Her mother is a pianist. Many Latin … [Read more...] about Natalia Lafourcade Makes Her Carnegie Hall Debut With Music From Her Coming Album

Drums Along the Hudson Celebrates Native American and Global Drum Traditions

The 20th Drums Along the Hudson 2022 Native American and Multicultural drum festival is at Inwood Hills Park in Inwood, Manhattan on Sun, Jun 5, 2022 from 11am - 6pm. Free. drumsalongthehudson.org 🇺🇸🇧🇷🇬🇪🇲🇽🇰🇷 Drums Along the Hudson 2022 This is basically a Pow-Wow (Native American gathering) on the site of Manhattan's Lenape village in what is now Inwood Hills Park. It … [Read more...] about Drums Along the Hudson Celebrates Native American and Global Drum Traditions

Plena Libre Plays Plena for Carnegie Hall Citywide at Riverbank State Park

Plena Libre (Free Plena) is a four-time Grammy nominated, contemporary Plena band that is renewing Puerto Rican Folk traditions for new generations. Multi-Grammy nominee Plena Libre plays contemporary Puerto Rican Plena for Carnegie Hall Citywide at Riverbank State Park in Hamilton Heights, West Harlem on Sat, Apr 30 at 5pm. FREE. carnegiehall.org 🇵🇷 The band blends … [Read more...] about Plena Libre Plays Plena for Carnegie Hall Citywide at Riverbank State Park

Lila Downs

Lila Downs is a multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy-winning Regional Mexican Pop singer who is a champion of Indigenous rights. Lila Downs sings Regional Mexican Pop at Sony Hall in the Times Square Theater District on Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 8pm. (6pm doors). From $62. sonyhall.com 🇲🇽 A Spirited Artist Lila always has a lot to say. She is fluent in Spanish, English and … [Read more...] about Lila Downs

Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita “Suba” Reunites the Caribbean with Mother Africa at Roulette Intermedium

Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita "Suba" with Gustavo Ovalles is Global Music that reunites the Caribbean and Mother Africa at Roulette Intermedium in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn on Thu, Mar 31 at 8pm. $25. robertbrowningassociates.com 🇨🇺🇸🇳🇻🇪 Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita "Suba" Omar Sosa is a Cuban Jazz pianist with multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations. Seckou Keita is a … [Read more...] about Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita “Suba” Reunites the Caribbean with Mother Africa at Roulette Intermedium

Aurelio Martínez & The Garifuna Soul Band Sing Folkloric Jazz for the World Music Institute at Le Poisson Rouge

Aurelio Martínez is a Honduran Garifuna singer-songwriter. To our uneducated ear, he sounds like an Afrobeat Bob Dylan with elements of surf guitar and something with the feel of Calypso. Aurelio is a leading voice of the Garifuna people, speakers of the last living Indigenous Carib language. There is a vibrant Garifuna community in Crotona Park East, The Bronx. Aurelio … [Read more...] about Aurelio Martínez & The Garifuna Soul Band Sing Folkloric Jazz for the World Music Institute at Le Poisson Rouge

El Laberinto del Coco Plays Bomba Fusion at Lote 23 in Santurce, Puerto Rico

El Laberinto del Coco by Héctor "Coco" Barez, plays Lote 23 in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico on Sat, Jan 8. No cover. 🇵🇷 @ellaberintodelcoco Héctor "Coco" Barez Héctor "Coco" Barez was Calle 13's original percussionist. He is sponsored by the ICP ~ Puerto Rican Cultural Institute and the NEA ~ National Endowment for the Arts. El Laberinto was a SXSW ~ South By … [Read more...] about El Laberinto del Coco Plays Bomba Fusion at Lote 23 in Santurce, Puerto Rico

Edmar Castaneda to Celebrate “Family” Album Release

Edmar Castaneda is a New York-based Colombian harpist who makes otherworldly Jazz based on the folk music of Colombia and Venezuela. Castaneda makes music of the angels. He is the Jimi Hendrix of the Andean harp. His emotional range would be exhausting if it wasn't so sweet. Castaneda switches gears naturally like he is driving through the mountain neighborhoods of his … [Read more...] about Edmar Castaneda to Celebrate “Family” Album Release

Los Pleneros de la 21 and Pregones/PRTT Celebrate Las Fiestas de Cruz

Los Pleneros de la 21 is a Grammy nominated, New York Puerto Rican, bomba and plena group of performers and teaching artists, based in El Barrio East Harlem. Bomba and plena are two unique Puerto Rican drum, song and dance traditions that are vibrant expressions of community belonging. They are cultural manifestations of faith, family, community and love (which are all … [Read more...] about Los Pleneros de la 21 and Pregones/PRTT Celebrate Las Fiestas de Cruz