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Latin Music

Browse Latin Music in New York City, from rumba to salsa and reggaeton, from the blues to hip hop and trap, and from classical to Latin jazz and opera.

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Pedro Giraudo is New York City’s Busiest Argentine Tango Leader

Pedro Giraudo Tango (the artist)

CENTRO ESPAÑOL, Astoria, Queens 🇦🇷

Los Pleneros de la 21 La Gran Fiesta Navideña

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

TAINO TOWERS, East Harlem, Manhattan 🇵🇷

Tito Nieves “50th Anniversary Tour” in New York City

Tito Nieves (Lehman Center)

RITZ THEATRE, Elizabeth, New Jersey 🇵🇷

Prudential Center Presents Latin Music Stars in Newark

Prudential Center Newark (Benjamin Clapp/Adobe)

Burna Boy ~ Nigerian afrobeats 🇳🇬
Silvestre Dangond & Juancho De la Espriella ~ Colombian Vallenato 🇨🇴

NEWARK, New Jersey

Jazz at Lincoln Center is One of the World’s Leading Jazz Institutions

Jazz at Lincoln Center (vacant/Adobe)

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra ~ Big Band Holidays 🇺🇸

COLUMBUS CIRCLE, Manhattan

El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico ~ Rafael Ithier Vaya Con Dios

El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico (the artists)

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, December 6, 2025 Vaya con Dios Rafael 🇵🇷

Hostos Center is One of America’s Top Latin Performing Arts Centers

Hostos Center (courtesy)

Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Puerto Rican salsa navidad 🇵🇷
Annual Kwanzaa Celebration African American dance 🇺🇸
Papo Vázquez, Puerto Rican Jazz Parranda 🇵🇷
Forces of Nature Dance Theatre, Kwanzaa Regeneration Celebration 🇺🇸

MOTT HAVEN, The Bronx

Bronx Music Hall Performers Make The Bronx Beautiful

Bronx Music Hall (Keith Widyolar/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

Azúcar: Cuban Music On Film with Nelson González 🇨🇺
Sunday Salon holiday market and deaf arts showcase 🇧🇩 🇵🇷

MELROSE, The Bronx

Mega Bash Alex Sensation Goes Dominican with El Teteo de Dembow

Mega Bash Alex Sensation (DisobeyArt/Adobe)

PRUDENTIAL CENTER, Newark, New Jersey 🇨🇴 🇩🇴

Miguel Zenón Big Band Plays The Jazz Gallery

Miguel Zenón in 2021 (courtesy)

THE JAZZ GALLERY, Flatiron District, Manhattan 🇵🇷

Grupo Niche Plays Colombian Salsa Pa’l Mundo at Prudential Center

Grupo Niche in 2025 (Carnegie Hall)

PRUDENTIAL CENTER, Newark, New Jersey 🇨🇴

La Excelencia Plays New York Salsa for Dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez

La Excelencia (courtesy)

GONZALEZ Y GONZALEZ, Greenwich Village, Manhattan. 🇨🇴

ALBA Musik Flamenco Fusion

ALBA Musik (Bárbara Martínez)

SOFAR SOUNDS, SoHo, Manhattan 🇪🇸 🇦🇷 🇻🇪

México Now Festival Brings Contemporary Mexican Art and Culture to New York City

México Now Festival (Museo Soumaya, Ibrester/Adobe)

CENTER FOR FICTION, Fort Greene, Brooklyn 🇲🇽
JOE’S PUB, Noho, Manhattan 🇲🇽
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇲🇽
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇲🇽 🇮🇹 🇬🇹

Reina Sofía School Orchestra Makes Its Carnegie Hall Debut With a Profound Journey to the New World

Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducting the Reina Sofía School Orchestra (Dana Balajovsky)

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇪🇸

OKAN Sings Joyful Afro-Cuban Alternative for BRIC JazzFest

OKAN (Ksenija Hotic/Flushing Town Hall)

BRIC House, Fort Greene, Brooklyn 🇨🇺

Sphinx Virtuosi Black and Latin Chamber Orchestra Plays Visions of Peace

Sphinx Virtuosi (Jennifer Taylor/Carnegie Hall)

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇺

Billboard Latin Music Awards Nominations Are Led by Bad Bunny, Fuerza Regida, Rauw Alejandro, Karol G, Tito Double P, and Peso Pluma

Billboard Latin Music Awards (Billboard)

FILLMORE MIAMI BEACH, Florida 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇷

BRIC JazzFest Makes Brooklyn Swing From Its Roots

BRIC Arts Media (Adobe)

BRIC JazzFest 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇺 🇪🇹 🇮🇱 🇲🇦 🇿🇦

FORT GREENE, Brooklyn

Global Citizen Festival Goes Latin with Shakira, Cardi B, Tyla, Ayra Starr, Camilo, Laurie Hernandez, Danai Gurira, and More

Global Citizen Festival (Decaale/Dreamstime)

GREAT LAWN, Central Park 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇳🇿 🇳🇬 🇵🇸 🇵🇷 🇿🇦 🇰🇷 🇿🇼

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival at NYC SummerStage Makes August Swing

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (William Gottlieb/Library of Congress)

MARCUS GARVEY PARK, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸
TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, East Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇱 🇯🇲 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇰🇷

Afropunk BLKTOPIA Weekend Flexes More Style Than an Entire Fashion Week

Afropunk (Horst Pezold/Dreamstime)

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globalFEST, the World Music Showcase, Returns to Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall

globalFEST (alexlmx/Adobe)

DAVID GEFFEN HALL, Lincoln Center, Manhattan

Carlos Henriquez Latin Jazz Initiative Plays a “Salsa Meets Jazz” Concert

Carlos Henriquez (Lawrence Sumulong/Jazz at Lincoln Center)

DIZZY’S CLUB at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Columbus Circle, Manhattan 🇵🇷

El Laberinto del Coco Plays Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba Fusion for globalFEST at Lincoln Center

El Laberinto del Coco in 2024 (Héctor "Coco" Barez)

LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan 🇵🇷

Claudia Acuña Sings Jazz and Chilean Folk for globalFEST at Summer for the City at Lincoln Center

Claudia Acuña (Carnegie Hall)

LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan 🇨🇱

Alex Sensation DJs I Love Saturdays at Salsa Con Fuego

Alex Sensation is on e of New York's top Latin DJs. (courtesy)

SALSA CON FUEGO, Fordham Manor, The Bronx 🇨🇴
LA MEGA 97.9FM 🇨🇴

Jazz in July at the 92nd Street Y Features African American, Puerto Rican, and Spanish Jazz

Jazz in July, Aaron Diehl (Maria Jarzyna/92NY)

92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

NYO Jazz Features Sean Jones with Vocalist Luciana Souza Highlighting Brazilian Composers and New Dafnis Prieto

NYO Jazz with Sean Jones and Luciana Souza (Carnegie Hall)

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺

Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) Brings One of the Dominant Latin Music Forms to NYC

Latin Alternative Music Conference, LAMC (Krakenimages/Adobe)

INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL, Times Square, Manhattan
DROM, East Village, Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇲🇽 🇻🇪, 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇪🇸 🇵🇷 🇺🇾
RUMSEY PLAYFIELD, Central Park, Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇪🇸

Brasil Summerfest Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Film and Dance to New York City

Brasil Summerfest (Viacheslav Dubrovin/Dreamstime)

Os Clavelitos
BROOKLYN: Archway, DUMBO
QUEENS: Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria
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Albita Celebrates the Evolution of Cuban Music From Rumba and Música Guajira, to Son Cubano and Salsa

Albita (Hostos Center)

HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx 🇨🇺

Paquito D’Rivera Joins the Blue Note Jazz Festival’s James Moody Tribute

Paquito D'Rivera (Hostos Center)

SONY HALL, Times Square Theater District, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Blue Note Jazz Festival New York Presents Some Great Latin Artists

Blue Note Jazz Festival New York (olenadesign-Adobe)

BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
SONY HALL, Times Square Theater District, Manhattan
SUMMERSTAGE Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, Manhattan
National Sawdust, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Los Tigres del Norte is One of the Most Popular Norteño Bands

Los Tigres del Norte is one of the most popular Regional Mexican norteño bands (Alterna2/Wikipedia)

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇲🇽

Cimafunk “Pa’ Tu Cuerpa Tour” Has “The James Brown of Cuba” Getting Funky for Carnegie Hall’s “Nuestros Sonidos” Festival of Latin Culture

Cimafunk in 2024 (Carnegie Hall)

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Shakira “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour” in New York City

Shakira in 2011 (Fabio Diena/Dreamstime)

METLIFE STADIUM, East Rutherford, New Jersey 🇨🇴

Los Amigos Invisibles are One of the Great Venezuelan Latin Alternative Bands

Los Amigos Invisibles in 2023 (High Road Touring)

LE POISSON ROUGE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇻🇪

Teatro Real, the Royal Opera of Madrid Orchestra, Plays a Gala Musical Fantasy From Spain Featuring Violinist María Dueñas, Soprano Saioa Hernández, and Conductor David Afkham

Teatro Real, Royal Opera of Madrid Orchestra Gala Musical Fantasy From Spain (Teatro Real)

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇪🇸 🇦🇷 🇮🇹

Rauw Alejandro “Cosa Nuestra Tour” Turns Puerto Rican Reggaeton into Smooth Pop

Rauw Alejandro in 2022 (Fernandez Jimenez/Dreamstime)

BARCLAYS CENTER, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn 🇵🇷

Bronx Week 2025 Features the Bronx Ball, Bronx Parade, Bronx Food & Arts Festival, Bronx Week Concert, and More

Bronx Week (Edward Samuel/Adobe)

THE BRONX 🇺🇸 🇵🇷

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 🇲🇽

Kupferberg Center for the Arts is the Performing Arts Center at Queens College

Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Colden Auditorium (courtesy)

Viva el Cinco de Mayo, Mexican music and dance 🇲🇽
Chucho Valdés: Irakere 50, Cuban jazz and timba 🇨🇺
Buena Vista Orchestra, Cuban son 🇨🇺
FLUSHING, Queens

Fito Páez “Novela” is a Psychedelic Rock Opera Set in a Magical Circus World

Fito Páez in 2011 (Pablo Pozos/Dreamstime)

GREENE SPACE, Hudson Square, Manhattan 🇦🇷

Tito Puente is Still “The King of Latin Music”

Tito Puente "Forever" (Silvio/Adobe)

HARLEM, Manhattan ~ April 20, 1923 🇵🇷

Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks Play Vintage Hot Jazz on Mondays and Tuesdays

Vince Giordano (Steve Friedman)

BIRDLAND THEATER, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇮🇹

Mega Mezcla 2025 Alex Sensation Features Anuel AA, Sech. Kapo, Beele, De La Ghetto, Ken-Y, Fariana, Jey One, Crazy Design, Vakero, with a special presentation by Elvis Crespo

Mega Mezcla (Val_th/Dreamstime)

PRUDENTIAL CENTER, Newark, New Jersey, reggaeton, latin trap, merengue, dembow 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇷

Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Play Carnegie Hall’s “Nuestros Sonidos”

Arturo O'Farrill (Jen Rosenstein/ Hostos Center)

CARNEGIE HALL “Nuestros sonidos,” Midtown, Manhattan 🇨🇺
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇨🇺 🇮🇱

Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band Plays a Tribute to Cuban Son Legend Arsenio Rodríguez

Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band (courtesy)

BRONX MUSIC HALL, Melrose, The Bronx 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours Play a Taíno Areíto of Their New Album “Songs del Yucayeke”

Papo Vázquez (artist/Hostos)

PREGONES/PRTT, Concourse, The Bronx 🇵🇷

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