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January

Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastían 2023 is Puerto Rico’s Biggest Festival

Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián (SanSe) in 2020 (© Keith Widyolar/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián (San Sebastían Street Festival) is the street fair in beautiful Old San Juan that ends Puerto Rico's Christmas season, the world's longest. It's Puerto Rico's most popular festival. Locals call it the SanSe. [It's a little joke. Sanse is Puerto Rican slang for a West African faith based on forces of nature that is popular in the … [Read more...] about Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastían 2023 is Puerto Rico’s Biggest Festival

Celebrate the Feast of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia, Patron Saint of the Dominican Republic

Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia (Jose Miguel Rodriguez de Carvalho/Wikimedia)

The Virgin Mary as Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia (Our Lady of Highest Grace) is the patron saint of the Dominican Republic. She is the icon of the Dominican people. Her feast is celebrated on January 21 with a pilgrimage to the Basílica Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia where the image is kept in Salvaleón, Higüey, Dominican Republic. Nuestra Señora de la … [Read more...] about Celebrate the Feast of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia, Patron Saint of the Dominican Republic

Celebrate Las Octavitas, the Puerto Rican Christmas Tradition!

Las Octavitas at the Capitol of Puerto Rico (Demerzel21/Dreamstime)

Las Octavitas (the octaves) is a vestige of the "Octavas," the medieval Catholic tradition of celebrating religious events for eight days, for example from one Sunday to the next Sunday. The octave of Three Kings Day January 6 extends Christmas in Puerto Rico from January 7 to 14. Las Octavitas Sometimes two different aspects of an event where celebrated. Christmas … [Read more...] about Celebrate Las Octavitas, the Puerto Rican Christmas Tradition!

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Mexican Opera in Spanish

Ailyn Pérez in "Florencia el el Amazonas" (Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera)

Mexican Opera “Florencia en el Amazonas” Stars Ailyn Pérez in Spanish at the Metropolitan Opera

Dominican Alternative + Haitian Afrobeats

Yasser Tejeda Dominican Alternative (Harlem Stage)

Yasser Tejeda and DJ Sabine Blaizin Get Everyone Dancing at Harlem Stage

Puerto Rican Bomba & Plena, Cuban Jazz Holidays

Arturo O'Farrill and Juan Gutiérrez "Navidad Nuyorkina" (Hostos Center)

Los Pleneros de la 21 Celebrate 40 Years with Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra “Una Navidad Nuyorkina” at Hostos

Puerto Rican Holiday Jazz Parranda

Papo Vázquez (artist/Hostos)

Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours Play a Puerto Rican Holiday Jazz Parranda at Hostos Center

Mexican Holiday Folkloric Ballet

Ballet Nepantla "Nacimiento" (Nina Galicheva/BN)

Ballet Nepantla “Nacimiento” is a Holiday Folkloric Ballet About The Birth of the Mexican People From Indigenous and Spanish Roots

Cuban Son Musical

Buena Vista Social Club™ musical (Atlantic Theater Company)

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

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