Sat-Sun, August 24-25, 2019
COMMODORE BARRY PARK
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Jill Scott, FKA Twigs, Leon Bridges and Kamasi Washington, about 40 more artists and a street fashion show with 70,000 models.
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.
Selena for Sanctuary
Sunday, August 18, 2019
CENTRAL PARK SUMMERSTAGE ~ Support immigrant rights at Selena for Sanctuary SummerStage with Kali Uchis, Cuco, Helado Negro, IV Jay, Ambar Lucid, Jasper Bones, La Doña, Ana Villafañe
Summer Streets 2019
Sat, August 3, 10 & 17, 2019
MANHATTAN ~ Seven miles of city streets become a long pedestrian mall with rest stops that offer free African, Brazilian, Disability, French, Indigenous, Mexican, Peruvian and Puerto Rican entertainment and family activities
Baile Funk Brasil SummerFest Closing Party
Saturday, August 3, 2019
BUSHWICK, Brooklyn ~ Brasil SummerFest closes another great season with Baile Funk, the party music of Rio favelas. Batekoo, Omulu and Marginal Men will make da bunda (bootie) shake at Elsewhere Rooftop.
Garifuna Collective & Wabafu Garifuna Dance Theater
Friday, August 2, 2019
CROTONA PARK, The Bronx ~ If you never danced African drum, you never lived. Indigenous Honduran Garifuna shake things up for SummerStage at the Crotona Park Amphitheater
Tulipa Ruiz
Thursday, August 1, 2019
LINCOLN CENTER ~ The multi-talented, Latin Grammy-winning Brazilian singer-songwriter of MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) plays a free acoustic concert at the David Rubenstein Atrium
Alceu Valença
Saturday, July 27, 2019
CENTRAL PARK, NYC ~ One of the elders of MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) brings the sounds of Pernambuco in Northeast Brazil to Brasil SummerFest at Central Park SummerStage
Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2019
Wednesday-Sunday, July 24 – August 11, 2019
LINCOLN CENTER & CONCOURSE, THE BRONX ~ Lincoln Center’s summer festival includes African, Cuban, Dominican, Honduran, Indigenous, Jewish, Mexican, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, & Spanish music, dance, film and word for FREE
Afro-Latino Festival 2019
Fri-Sat, July 12-13, 2019
DOWNTOWN, Brooklyn
Holman Trio plays Indigenous Chilean Jazz at Lincoln Center
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Live music Indigenous Chilean jazz
LINCOLN CENTER ~ Ancestral Chilean rhythms, cueca (Chilean national dance) and traditional jazz. FREE
Mega Mezcla 2019
NEWARK, NJ; Sun, Apr 19, 2019 ~ Reggaeton concert ~ Colombian DJ Alex Sensation brings out his friends Ozuna, J Balvin, Farruko, Anuel AA, Karol G, El Alfa, Jowell y Randy, Manuel Turizo and more
Tiempo Libre Plays Cuban Timba at Purchase College
Sunday, April 7, 2019
PURCHASE, New York ~ Three-time Grammy nominees play Cuban timba dance music at Purchase College
Malena & Lena Burke share an evening of Cuban boleros at Hostos
Saturday, March 30, 2019
CONCOURSE, The Bronx ~ One of the great families of Cuban bolero singers. ‘Contigo Aprendi,’ ‘Me Voy Pa’l Pueblo,’ ‘La Longina’ and ‘Total.’
Vicente Amigo’s “Tauromagia” is One of the Classic Flamenco Albums
March, 4, 2016
THE TOWN HALL
Midtown, NYC
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Original Sponsor
Carnegie Hall
Curtis Brothers & Circa ’95 Play Uptown Nights at Harlem Stage
Saturday, March 23, 2019
HARLEM, NYC ~ The Curtis Brothers map the rhythms of the slave trade. Circa ’95 raps in Spanglish about what happened once we landed in El Barrio. For the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) and Carnegie Hall’s Migrations: the Making of America festival. At Harlem Stage
RAMAS Festival ~ Rincón Alternative Music Art Surf
RINCÓN, PUERTO RICO; Fri-Sun Mar 22-24, 2019; Surfing art music festival ~ Big party for the surfers in Puerto Rico this weekend. Yellow Man, Pirulo y La Tribu and Fofé y Los Fetiches headline. “Ja man”
Ismael Fernández, Spanish Flamenco
Thursday, March 7, 2019
FLAMENCO FESTIVAL
JOE’S PUB, PUBLIC THEATER
NoHo, NYC
The musical half of NYC’s Sonia Olla & Ismael Fernández Flamenco Company presents his new album “Trato” (Deal)
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¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
Aida
LINCOLN CENTER; Winter cast Jan 7 – Mar 7, 2019; Italian opera live music ~ Kristen Lewis stars in the final performances of Sonja Frisell’s production of Verdi’s grand opera set in ancient Egypt
Flamenco Festival NYC 2019
Tuesday-Sunday, March 7-10, 2019
FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NYC
JOE’S PUB, PUBLIC THEATER
NoHo, NYC
The Flamenco Festival organization (Madrid) sends the best artists from the flamenco heartland, Andalusia, Spain
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Sponsored by
Flamenco Festival (Madrid)
Jordi Savall
CARNEGIE HALL, ZANKEL HALL, Thu, February 21, 2019, French classical live music ~ The Catalan Spanish early music master plays a concert of French baroque music
Rigoletto
LINCOLN CENTER | CLOSING Fri, May 10, 2019 | Live music Italian opera | The womanizing duke stirs trouble when he wants to sleep with the court jester’s daughter
Elio Villafranca Tells Stories of the African Diaspora on His Piano
BELMONT, THE BRONX, Sun, Jan 27, 2019 ~ The jazz composer of the African diaspora joins Mary Ann Sweeney & Bronx Arts Ensemble to play one of the jazz greats, Charles Mingus. African Cuban jazz live music. FREE
Alexandra Jackson Brazilian Bossa Nova at City Winery
CITY WINERY, Hudson Square, Manhattan ~ A tribute to 60 years of bossa nova by a powerful blues and jazz singer with a band of great guest artists. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷
Bomba Estéreo Colombian Pop
TERMINAL 5, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇨🇴
Fito Páez is an Argentine Rock Superstar
Thursday, November 15, 2018
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Latin Grammys 2018 Univision
Song of the Year nominee: “Tu Vida Mi Vida”
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September 28, 2018
Carnegie Hall
Carmen
LINCOLN CENTER, Oct 30, 2018 to Feb 8, 2019 ~ French opera of Spanish Romani culture. French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine and tenor Roberto Alagna star.
Septeto Santiaguero Plays Cuban Son for Carnegie Hall Citywide at the Brooklyn Museum
BROOKLYN MUSEUM, Prospect Park, Brooklyn ~ The successors to the Buena Vista Social Club play traditional Cuban son with contemporary influences. 🇨🇺
Mile-Long Opera, a biography of 7 o’clock, 1,000 singers, 100 stories
MEATPACKING & CHELSEA; Wed-Mon, Oct 3-8, 2018; Contemporary opera live music ~ An incredible participatory experience
Samson et Dalila
LINCOLN CENTER; Sep 24, 2018 – Mar 28, 2019; French opera live music ~ Starring Anita Rachvelishvili (Georgia) and Aleksandr Antonenko (Latvia)
Afropunk 2018
Commodore Barry Park
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Saturday – Sunday
August 25 – 26, 2018
BaianaSystem + Hamilton de Holanda + Xênia França
Three artists from Bahia showcase the rich variety of Brazilian music.
Brasil Summerfest
Central Park SummerStage
Rumsey Playfield
Sunday, August 5, 2018
FREE
Luis Fonsi Got the World Singing in Spanish “Despacito”
I don’t know why he’s asking. I always get blamed.
Radio City Music Hall
Midtown, Manhattan
Monday, August 20, 2018
Brasil Summerfest 2018
A few legends and a new crop of the year’s best Brazilian music.
Multiple Venues in Manhattan & Brooklyn
July 29 – August 12, 2018
Selena for Sanctuary
Featuring Mon Laferte (Chilean), Cuco (Mexican – American), Gaby Moreno (Guatemalan) and Nina Diaz (Mexican – American), with guest appearances by Chris Perez (Selena’s husband), Omar Apollo (Mexican – American) and August Eve. DJ Riobamba (Ecuadorian – Lithuanian).
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center
Thursday, July 26, 2018
FREE
Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2018 free music, dance, movies and word
LINCOLN CENTER, Jul 25-Aug 12, 2018, Summer music festival with African, Colombian, Cuban, Ecuadorian, Mexican and Puerto Rican music, dance and word.
Systema Solar is a Hot Colombian Electro-Cumbia Dance Collective
SummerStage
Queensbridge Park
Queensbridge, Queens
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Django Reinhardt NY Festival
Birdland
Hell’s Kitchen
Tuesday – Sunday
July 10 – 15, 2018
Ludovico Einaudi, One of Europe’s Best-Selling Solo Pianists
Saturday, June 30, 2018
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
Midtown, Manhattan
Joe Quijano y Su Conjunto Cachana play Midsummer Night Swing
Eddie Torres & Maria Torres teach Salsa on2. Eddie is the founder of New York Salsa on2.
Midsummer Night Swing
Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Mariza
CENTRAL PARK, SUMMERSTAGE, Sat, Jun 23, 2018, Portuguese fado live music ~ The biggest contemporary fado star has taken the mantle from Amália Rodrigues, “the queen of fado”
Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series 2018
June 11 – 29, 2018
Wisin y Yandel Are the First Reggaeton Artists to Win a Grammy
Madison Square Garden
Chelsea, Manhattan
Saturday, June 9, 2018
Soulfrito Fest 2018 Reggaeton and Latin Trap on Puerto Rican weekend
Puerto Rican and Dominican Hip-Hop.
Barclays Center
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Friday, June 8, 2018
Nano Stern Plays Chilean Rock at The Graduate Center
CUNY Graduate Center
Elebash Recital Hall
Murray Hill, Manhattan
Friday, May 4, 2018
Arturo O’Farrill and Friends ¡ Adelante Cuba ¡ Festival at New York City Center
Saturday, April 28, 2018
New York City Center
Midtown, Manhattan
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Plácido Domingo
Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
April 23 – May 12, 2018
The Met Opera’s “Cinderella” Stars Isabel Leonard
Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
April 12 – May 11, 2018
Horacio Lavandera
Saturday, April 7, 2018
CARNEGIE HALL WEILL RECITAL HALL
Midtown, Manhattan
Ana Moura sings Portuguese Fado at The Town Hall
MIDTOWN, WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE, Thu, Apr 5, 2018, Portuguese fado live music ~ One of the great contemporary fado singers who blends pop into fado traditions
Portuguese Fado Singer Lula Pena is a Musical Wanderer
SCHIMMEL CENTER PACE University
Financial District, Manhattan 🇵🇹 Saturday, March 31, 2018