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.

Latin Music News

APAP NYC Brings Dance, Music, Opera, Theater, and Performance Showcases to NYC in January

NEW YORK HILTON MIDTOWN, Manhattan and Brooklyn

Juan Gabriel, the Mexican Elvis, Opened Many Doors for Latin Singers

PARÁCUARO, Michoacán, México ~ January 7, 1950 🇲🇽

Bulla en el Barrio Releases Debut Album “Vámonos que nos vamos”

New York City’s first Bullerengue group updates the Caribbean Colombian women’s tradition from San Basilio de Palenque, the first free African town in the Americas. 🇨🇴

Aterciopelados Plays Colombian Alternative Rock at Irving Plaza

IRVING PLAZA, Union Square, Manhattan 🇨🇴

José Feliciano To Sing “Feliz Navidad” at Sony Hall

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

Carlos Gardel was the Iconic Tango Singer

TOULOUSE, France ~ December 11, 1890 🇫🇷 🇦🇷

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

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Ozuna in New York City

PRUDENTIAL CENTER, Newark, New Jersey 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

Bárbara Martínez Sings and Dances Flamenco at Sala Astoria

SALA ASTORIA, Astoria, Queens 🇦🇷 🇻🇪 🇪🇸

Magic Flute Stars Mexican Tenor Rolando Villazón at the Metropolitan Opera

METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE, Lincoln Center 🇲🇽

Machito & His Afro-Cubans Defined Cubop Which We Now Call Latin Jazz

HAVANA, Cuba ~ December 3, 1907 🇨🇺

Puccini’s “La Bohème,” the World’s Most Popular Opera, is at the Metropolitan Opera

METROPOLITAN OPERA, Lincoln Center ~ The tragic love story of Mimi and Rodolfo that helped define the popular idea of a bohemian. 🇮🇹 ~ 🇫🇷

Romeo Santos Brings His “Formula Vol. 3 Tour” to Barclays Center

BARCLAYS CENTER, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn ~ The “King of Bachata” created urban bachata and popularized it around the world. 🇩🇴

Louie Vega and the Elements of Life Spin House at the Blue Note New York

This legend of 1990s house music is from a Puerto Rican musical family. 🇵🇷

Salute Tito Puente el Mambo Diablo, Celia Cruz, and La Lupe, with Family, Friends, and his Mambo Legends Orchestra, at Hostos Center

HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx ~ Go if you love mambo, salsa, and bolero by Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, La Lupe, Vicentico Valdes, Santos Colon, and well you know.

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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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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 🇨🇺

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, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇮🇹

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). 🇧🇷

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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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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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

HARLEM STAGE, Manhattanville, West Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸

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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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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