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Latin Folk

Browse Latin folk and folkloric culture in New York City, including the many regional forms of Latin folk music and folk dance.

Latin Music News ~ Latin Dance News

Viva el Cinco de Mayo 2025 Features Mexican Ballet Folklórico Son Jarocho, and Mariachi for the Entire Family

Viva el Cinco de Mayo at Kupferberg Center (Hannah Baiak/Dreamstime)

KUPFERBERG CENTER; Queens College; Flushing, Queens 🇲🇽

Natalia Lafourcade Sings with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall

Natalia Lafourcade (Carnegie Hall)

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇲🇽

Pablo Mayor Folklore Urbano Orchestra Performs Colombian Cumbia, Salsa, and Folkloric for Carnegie Hall’s Family Day

Pablo Mayor Folklore Urbano NYC "El Barrio Project" (courtesy)

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇨🇴

Los Pleneros de la 21 Teach Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena For Carnegie Hall’s Family Day

Los Pleneros de la 21 (Andres Rodriguez/Lincoln Center)

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇵🇷

Edmar Castaneda is the Jimi Hendrix of the Andean Harp

Edmar Castaneda in 2011 (Diana Bejarano)

BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇨🇴

Boukman Eksperyans Plays Haitian Vodou Rock Reggae After the West Indian Day Parade

Boukman Eksperyans (Lakay Photography/Lincoln Center)

THE BROOKLYN MIRAGE AT AVANT GARDNER, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn 🇭🇹

Plena Libre Remembers Founder Gary Nunez and Celebrates Their New Album “Cuatro Esquinas”

Plena Libre (Carnegie Hall)

JOE’S PUB AT THE PUBLIC THEATER, NoHo, Manhattan 🇵🇷

Danza Fiesta Honors Puerto Rico’s Greatest Composers with the Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band

Danza Fiesta is Puerto Rican folkloric dance theatre (Hostos Center)

HOSTOS CENTER Mott Haven, The Bronx 🇵🇷

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

Drums Along the Hudson (Jose Terrero/Dreamstime)

INWOOD HILL PARK, Inwood, Manhattan 🇩🇴 🇮🇳 🇲🇽

Forró in the Dark, Brazilian Forró Fusion at Nublu

Forro in the Dark (Vladimir Radojicic/FITD)

NUBLU 151, East Village, Manhattan 🇧🇷

OKAN Sings Joyful Afro-Cuban Alternative at Lincoln Center

OKAN (Ksenija Hotic/Flushing Town Hall)

DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM at Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Leyenda Plays Latin Pop Classics with Bridget Kibbey harp, Samuel Torres percussion, and Louis Arques clarinet; for Carnegie Hall Citywide at Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church

Leyenda: harp virtuoso Bridget Kibbey, Colombian percussionist Samuel Torres, and French clarinetist Louis Arques (Carnegie Hall)

CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE, Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church, Hudson Heights, Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇺🇸

Leyla McCalla Sings Alternative Folk Music of the African Diaspora at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater

Leyla McCalla in 2022 (Greg Miles/Harlem Stage)

JOE’S PUB AT THE PUBLIC THEATER, NoHo, Manhattan 🇭🇹 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇪🇹

globalFEST is a World Music Showcase at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center

globalFEST (alexlmx/Adobe)

DAVID GEFFEN HALL, Lincoln Center, Manhattan ~ alternative, bomba, folk, R&B, rock, world music. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇩🇴 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇲🇦 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇪🇸 🇺🇦

José Feliciano To Sing “Feliz Navidad” at Sony Hall

José Feliciano (Lehman Center)

SONY HALL, Times Square Theater District, Manhattan 🇵🇷 🎄

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

"Monarcas" by Calpulli Mexican Dance Company (courtesy)

QUEENS THEATRE IN THE PARK, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens 🇲🇽

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

DANCE PARADE
Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village

African, Afrobeat, Afro-Cuban, Bhangra, Bollywood, Bomba, Break Dancing, Caporales, Carnival, Dancehall, Flamenco, Folkloric, Hip-Hop, House, Jazz, Latin, Majorette, Mexican, Moko Jumbies, Reggae, Salay, Salsa, Samba, Soca, Street, Tammurriata, Tap, Tarrantella, Tinkus, and more. 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇹🇹

DANCEFEST Tompkins Square Park
🇧🇴 🇨🇺 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

Saturday, May 20, 2023

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

Afro-Andean Funk is Matt Matt Geraghty and Araceli Poma (Bill Wadman)

BRYANT PARK DANCE PARTY
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
🇵🇪

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

Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita: SUBA Revisited (Tom Ehrlich/RBA)

Thursday, May 4, 2023
ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM
Boerum Hill (Downtown), Brooklyn
🇨🇺 🇸🇳 🇻🇪

Olga Cerpa y Mestisay Plays Canarian Folk Music at Carnegie Hall

Olga Cerpa y Mestisay (courtesy)

Thursday, February 9, 2023
CARNEGIE HALL
Midtown Manhattan
🇪🇸🇮🇨
 

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

globalFEST (alexlmx/Adobe)

Sunday, January 15, 2023
DAVID GEFFEN HALL
Lincoln Center
🇺🇸 🇲🇽 | 🇭🇹 | 🇨🇴 | 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 | 🇩🇿 🇲🇱 🇲🇦

Prototype Festival 2023

Prototype Festival (Vincent Giordano/Dreamstime)

Thursday, January 5-13, 2023
HERE & OTHER VENUES
Hudson Square & NYC
🇲🇽

Jarana Beat Does the Mexican Fandango at Terraza 7

Jarana Beat is a fun New York Fandango collective (courtesy the artists)

Friday, May 13, 2022
TERRAZA 7
Elmhurst, Queens
🇲🇽

Lila Downs

Lila Downs "Al Chile" (the artist)

SONY HALL, Times Square Theater District 🇲🇽

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

Omar Sosa, Seckou Keita, Gustavo Ovalles, "Suba" (Laurent Seroussi/Robert Browning Associates)

Thursday, March 31, 2022
ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM
Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
🇨🇺🇸🇳🇻🇪

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

Aurelio Martínez (Tillyer York/the artist)

LE POISSON ROUGE Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇭🇳 ~ 🇧🇿 🇬🇹 🇳🇮 🇺🇸

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

El Laberinto del Coco Héctor Barez (Keith Widyolar/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

TRAVEL
Saturday, January 8, 2022
LOTE 23
Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
🇵🇷

Drom Online World Fest Presents Great World Music

Drom Online World Fest 2021 (Drom)

dromnyc.com 🎵🎪 Friday, March 26-31, 2021 🇩🇿🇨🇴🇨🇺🇫🇷🇮🇹🇲🇰🇪🇸🇸🇾🇹🇷🇺🇸🇻🇪

Héctor “Coco” Barez & El Laberinto del Coco Take Bomba to the World

Héctor Barez "Coco" (German Baratto/Meinl)

richmond.edu 🇵🇷 Monday, February 22, 2021, FREE

Diego Obregon Goodby to the Colombian Pacific Coast Marimba Master

Diego Obregon Afro Colombian Pacific Coast marimba master. Vaya con Dios. (courtesy Sergio R. Reyes))

Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 7pm
FLUSHING TOWN HALL FACEBOOK
FREE
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Martin Vejarano
La Cumbiamba
Grupo Rebolú
Folklore Urbano
Sebastián Cruz
NYC Gaita Club
Harold Gutierrez
Freddy Castiblanco

Betsayda Machado y Parranda El Clavo

Betsayda Machado y Parranda El Clavo (the artists)

Saturday, February 29, 2020
Afro-Peruvian tambor jams with Jewish klezmer.

Mighty Sparrow

Mighty Sparrow. Courtesy the artist.

Saturday, December 7, 2019
NOHO, NYC ~ The living legend of Trinidadian calypso plays Joe’s Pub

Chouk Bwa Makes Beautiful Haitian Vodou Music Electronic

Chouk Bwa (Purchase College)

Saturday, November 16, 2019
PURCHASE, New York (White Plains) ~ Traditional Haitian folk music as part of ‘(T)HERE: A Global Festival of Art, Culture and Ideas – Haiti’ at the Purchase College Performing Arts Center

Mercedes Peón Ancient and Contemporary Songs of Galicia, Spain

Mercedes Peón courtesy of Bartlomiej Muracki / the artist

The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
between 34th & 35th St
Murray Hill, Manhattan
Friday, December 8, 2017

Totó la Momposina

Totó la Momposina by Kevin Clifford

Rumsey Playfield
Central Park
Saturday, July 8, 2017

Los Nocheros

Los Nocheros

Argentine Pop/Folk
Stage 48
605 W 48th St, Hell’s Kitchen
Friday, June 9, 2017

Joan Baez knows a little about diamonds and rust

Joan Baez in 2003 by Dana Tynan

April 7, 2017
~
Barclays Center
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
~
Watch the Mexican – American folk singer get inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Encuentro NYC Colombian Music Festival

Encuentro NYC Colombian Music Festival

Colombian music and dance for the entire family
Le Poisson Rouge
Greenwich Village
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Qasida Persian Spanish Flamenco Festival at Carnegie Hall

Qasida ~ Rosario Guerrero "La Tremendita" & Mohammad Motamedi. Courtesy the artists / Carnegie Hall.

MIDTOWN, Mar 18, 2016 ~ A Flamenco of Arabic poetry by Spanish and Persian musicians.
# persian spanish flamenco festival live music

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