MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, Chelsea, Manhattan ~ The singer of the most popular Christmas album of all time comes home for the holidays. 🇻🇪
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.
Joe Arroyo was One of the Godfathers of Colombian Salsa
CARTAGENA, Colombia ~ The singer who mixed many Caribbean traditions into Colombian Salsa, was born on November 1, 1955.
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Flor de Toloache, New York’s Female Mariachi, Plays Harlem Stage for Carnegie Hall Citywide
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE at HARLEM STAGE, Manhattanville, West Harlem ~ These Latin Grammy winners play tradition and fusions with their Caribbean heritage. Even if you don’t like mariachi, you’ll love Toloache. 🇲🇽 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇨🇺
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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Tito Nieves, Kevin Ceballo, Rumberos del Callejon, & Daniela Darcourt Sing Salsa Romántica at Lehman Center
One of the great Puerto Rican salsa romántica singers.
LEHMAN CENTER in Jerome Park, The Bronx
Saturday, October 21, 2023
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Diego El Cigala “Obras Maestras” Tour Brings Classic Latin American Love Songs to The Town Hall
One of the great flamenco singers makes Latin American music his own.
THE TOWN HALL in Midtown, Manhattan
Dizzy Gillespie Put the Latin Back in Jazz
Saturday, October 21, 2023
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Celia Cruz, “The Queen of Salsa,” Popularized Latin Music Around the World
HAVANA, Cuba, October 21, 1925 🇨🇺
Pablo Mayor Folklore Urbano Orchestra Plays a Portrait of the Americas at Drom
A pan-Latin cumbia, salsa, jazz, and folkloric band with a Colombian Artistic Director.
DROM in Manhattan’s East Village
Saturday, November 18, 2023
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Teatro Real Gala Concert: From Spain to New York Plays Falla, Dvořák, Ginastera, and Ravel at Lincoln Center
DAVID GEFFEN HALL at Lincoln Center ~ The Royal Opera of Madrid Orchestra conducted by Juanjo Mena, featuring Esperanza Fernández and Pablo Ferrández, plays Falla, Dvořák, Ginastera, and Ravel. 🇪🇸 🇦🇷 🇫🇷
The Sphinx Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra Showcases the Diversity of Classical Music at Carnegie Hall
CARNEGIE HALL in Midtown, Manhattan ~ Black and Latin artists play classical music by Black and Latin composers. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇿🇦 🇪🇸
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 🇨🇺
Handel’s “Messiah” by the New York Philharmonic is a New York City Holiday Tradition, “Hallejujah”
DAVID GEFFEN HALL at Lincoln Center ~ One of the most popular choral works in European art music. 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇮🇹
Seu Jorge and Daniel Jobim Pay Homage to the Iconic 1962 Bossa Nova Concert at Carnegie Hall
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan ~ Superstar Brazilian actor, funk, and samba singer who went global in the movie “City of God” (2002). 🇧🇷
Global Citizen Festival Latin Headliners Include Anitta, D-Nice, Lauryn Hill and Sofia Carson
Great artists support ending extreme poverty.
GREAT LAWN
Central Park
Saturday, September 23, 2023
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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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José Alberto “El Canario” Sings Salsa for SummerStage at the Coney Island Amphitheater
A superstar Dominican salsa singer known for his charismatic whistling.
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The Birth of Hip-Hop, and You Don’t Stop!
Hip-hop roots go way back, but what is generally considered hip-hop’s birthday was Clive and Cindy Campbell’s “Back to School Jam” block party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in Morris Heights, The Bronx, on August 11, 1973.
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Brasil Summerfest Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Film and Dance to NYC
The latest currents of Brazilian music, film and dance with Marisa Monte, DJ Mulú, DJ Tietta, Duda Beat, DJ Greg Caz, Zabelê, Luciane Dom, Forró in the Dark, “Narciso Em Ferias” (Narcissus Off Duty).
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NYC Pride Builds to a Climax at the NYC Pride Parade
The NYC Pride rally, brunch, youth festival, and dance parties climax with the march, street fair, and music festival headlined by Christina Aguilera.
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New York Philharmonic Concerts In the Parks are a Great Way to Start Summer
VAN CORTLANDT PARK, The Bronx; CENTRAL PARK, Manhattan; CUNNINGHAM PARK, Queens; PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn; ST GEORGE THEATRE, Staten Island
Willie Colón Headlines the New York Salsa Festival
One of the core players in the FANIA All-Stars New York salsa sound of the 1970s.
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BARCLAYS CENTER, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Saturday, June 10, 2023
New York Salsa Festival 2023 Features Willie Colón, El Gran Combo, Victor Manuelle, Oscar D’Leon and Merengueros Oro Solido
Willie Colón, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Victor Manuelle, Grupo Niche, Oscar de Leon, Jerry Rivera, Tony Vega, Edgar Joel, merengueros Oro Sólido backed merengueros Oro Sólido, backed by a great salsa band directed by Bobby Allende and Marc Quiñones. 🇵🇷 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🇻🇪
BARCLAYS CENTER: Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Saturday, June 10, 2023
Drums Along the Hudson is a Native American & Multicultural Celebration of Drum, Song & Dance
A spectacular multicultural pow wow brings the old ways back to life. Everyone hears the call of the drum. 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇱🇰 🇺🇸
INWOOD HILL PARK
Sunday, June 4, 2023
Blue Note Jazz Festival 2023 Brings Latin Jazz Legends to NYC
A jazz festival with everything from the blues to Latin to hip-hop.
Hammerstein Ballroom, The Town Hall, Sony Hall, Blue Note NYC
May 31 – July 2, 2023
Grace Jones 🇯🇲
Chucho Valdés & Paquito D’Rivera 🇨🇺
Omara Portuondo 🇨🇺
Sergio Mendes 🇧🇷
Julius Rodriguez 🇺🇸
Merengueras Dominicanas: Ninoshka, Lidia de la Rosa, & Indira Rubiera Bring Quisqueya to Hostos Center
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx ~ Three legendary women play their own flavors of Dominican merengue. 🇩🇴
ACO SONiC Festival with Miguel Zenón and Angélica Negrón Creates Avant-Garde Puerto Rican Classical Music at Hostos
A primer on some of the young Latin artists who are doing incredible work stretching the jazz and classical music canon in New York City.
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
Sunday, June 4, 2023
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Anuel AA NYC Real Hasta La Muerte
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇵🇷
Nation Beat Plays Brazilian Maracatu Forró Funk Jazz Fusion at Flushing Town Hall
This New York Brazilian maracatu, forró, funk jazz band is fun!
FLUSHING TOWN HALL
Flushing, Queens
Saturday, May 13, 2023
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk Was the First Composer to Notate the Rhythms of Congo Square
New Orleans
May 8, 1829
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Afro-Andean Funk, featuring Araceli Poma & Matt Geraghty, Plays Cumbia for Dancing
BRYANT PARK DANCE PARTY
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
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Banda Iroko Will Make You Want to Dance Like You’re Madly in Love
Banda Iroko is Israeli bassist Avishai Cohen and Nuyorican conguero-vocalist Abraham Rodriguez Jr’s Nuyorican jazz project.
It’s the perfect blend of singing bass and singing drum.
BLUE NOTE
Greenwich Village
Tuesday-Sunday, April 25-30, 2023
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Black Arts Movement: Then & Now Conference
Angela Davis, Nona Hendryx, Toshi Reagon, Dafnis Prieto, Tavia Nyong’o, Vernon Reid
HARLEM STAGE
Manhattanville, West Harlem
Thu-Sat, May 18-20, 2023
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The New York Opera Alliance NYOANext Brings Opera To and From The Bronx
Bronx Opera, International Brazilian Opera Company, Manhattan Opera Repertory Ensemble, Encompass New Opera Theatre, Little Opera Theatre of NY with Harlem Opera Theater, SAS Performing Arts Company, Opera Praktikos (deaf opera).
OPEN AUDITIONS
Bronx Music Heritage Center
Melrose, The Bronx
Thursday, April 20, 2023
PERFORMANCES
Bronx House
Pelham Parkway, The Bronx
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Bronx Music Heritage Center
Melrose, The Bronx
Sunday, April 23, 2023
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Louis Hayes, a Chief Architect of Modern Jazz Drumming, Celebrates His NEA Jazz Master Award & New Album
Mentored by Papa Jo Jones of the Count Basie Orchestra, Hayes came up in Detroit with Yusef Lateef and Kenny Burrell. In New York Hayes made his name with Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley and Oscar Peterson. Now he’s a legend himself.
HARLEM STAGE
Manhattanville, West Harlem
Friday, April 21, 2023
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Do You Still Feel that Disco Fever?
The cure for Disco Fever is The Trammps, France Joli, Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes, Lime, Musique, Rochelle Fleming, Carol Douglas, The Intruders, and Rainere Martin’s Donna Summer tribute.
LEHMAN CENTER
Jerome Park, The Bronx
Saturday, April 15, 2023
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Bárbara Martínez & ALBA Musik Fundraiser for DAWN, their new album, is a Celebration of Sevilla’s Feria de Abril
This great New York flamenco duo fundraises for their new album with a celebration of Sevilla’s Feria de Abril, the the flamenco heartland’s spring festival.
ATD Fourth World Movement
Lower East Side
Saturday, April 15, 2023
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Elsewhere is a Three-Story Brooklyn House Party
Los Amigos Invisibles, Tall Juan
Latin rock
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Los Amigos Invisibles are one of the great Venezuelan Latin Alternative Bands
ELSEWHERE Saturday, April 15, 2023
Venezuelan psychedelic pop that can lean funk, disco, or rock.
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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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Xiomara Fortuna, the Queen of Afro-Caribbean Fusion, Plays Hostos Center
Saturday, April 1, 2023
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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Sara Baras Brings “Alma” to the Flamenco Festival New York City Center 2023
Thursday-Sunday, March 23-26, 2023
NEW YORK CITY CENTER
Midtown, Manhattan
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Flamenco Festival New York 2023 Fills the City with Duende
March 18-26, 2023
New York City Center
Instituto Cervantes
Joe’s Pub
Roulette Intermedium
Drom
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Orquesta Broadway Celebrates 60 Years of New York Cuban Charanga at Aaron Davis Hall
Friday, March 24, 2023
AARON DAVIS HALL
CITY COLLEGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Hamilton Heights, West Harlem
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Rhythm, Bass And Place: Through the Lens Photography Exhibition Shows Music & Dance as the Heartbeat of Latin New York at the CCCADI
CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE (CCCADI) East Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Antonio Rey Plays Flamenco Guitar for the Flamenco Festival New York at Instituto Cervantes
Friday, March 24, 2023
Midtown East, Manhattan 🇪🇸
Sou Sou Saturdays Celebrates Hip-Hop’s Femme Pioneers with Your Family at CCCADI
CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE (CCCADI) “El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇯🇲 🇵🇦 🇵🇷
Eliane Elias, “2022 Best Latin Jazz Album” Grammy & Latin Grammy Winner Opens Her 2023 Tour at Birdland
March 28 – April 1, 2023
Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
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Fleur Seule Plays Latin Jazz at the Hard Rock Hotel
Tuesday, February 18, 2023
Times Square Theater District
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Edna Vázquez Blends Regional Mexican with Folk Pop Rock for Carnegie Hall Citywide at the LGBT Community Center
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE at the LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER, West Village, Manhattan. 🇲🇽 🏳️🌈