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Browse features on salsa music and salsa dance in New York City, including night clubs, dance parties, festivals, dance studios, and musicians.

New York Salsa News

Tito Puente is Still “The King of Latin Music”

Tito Puente "Forever" (Silvio/Adobe)

HARLEM, Manhattan ~ April 20, 1923 🇵🇷

Grupo Niche Plays Colombian Salsa for Carnegie Hall’s “Nuestros Sonidos” Festival of Latin Culture

Grupo Niche in 2025 (Carnegie Hall)

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇨🇴

Latin Mondays NYC by Talia Castro-Pozo, One of New York’s Most Popular Latin Dance Parties, is Now at Fifth&Mad in Murray Hill

Latin Mondays at Taj (Jules Helm/Talia Castro Pozo)

5th&Mad, Murray Hill, Manhattan 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

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

Tito Nieves (Lehman Center)

BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Englewood, New Jersey 🇵🇷

Eddie Palmieri is a Salsa and Latin Jazz Legend

Eddie Palmieri (Erik Valind)

BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇵🇷

Marc Anthony “Historia Tour” in New York City

Marc Anthony (Michael Bush/Dreamstime)

BARCLAYS CENTER, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn 🇵🇷

Gilberto Santa Rosa “Auténtico Tour” in New York City

Gilberto Santa Rosa in 2019 (J. Perez-Mesa/GSR)

ST. GEORGE THEATRE, Staten Island 🇵🇷
FLAGSTAR AT WESTBURY MUSIC FAIR, Jericho, Long Island 🇵🇷
BERGEN PAC, Englewood, New Jersey 🇵🇷
STATE THEATER, New Brunswick, New Jersey 🇵🇷

Spanish Harlem Orchestra with Oscar Hernández Celebrates Their “Swing Forever” Album Release

Spanish Harlem Orchestra with Oscar Hernández (George Pruitt/Hostos Center)

THE IRIDIUM, Times Square Theater District, 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 🇨🇴

Orquesta Broadway was a Popular New York Cuban Charanga Orchestra in the 1960s-1970s

Orquesta Broadway (Lincoln Center)

DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Arsenio Rodríguez, “El Ciego Maravilloso,” Developed Son Montuno and the Conjunto, the Template for Salsa, Songo, and Timba

Arsenio Rodríguez (Vic/Adobe)

GÜIRA DE MACURIJES, Matanzas, Cuba ~ August 31, 1911 🇨🇺

New York International Salsa Congress is NYC’s Labor Day Weekend Salsa and Bachata Dance Festival

New York International Salsa Congress (Burcu Akcakaya/Dreamstime)

NEW YORK MARRIOTT MARQUIS, Times Square Theater District, and offsite venues in Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇨🇦 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

José Alberto “El Canario” Plays the New York International Salsa Congress

José Alberto "El Canario" is a Dominican salsa superstar.

MARRIOTT MARQUIS, Times Square Theater District, Manhattan 🇩🇴

La Excelencia Plays New York Salsa for Dancing for Carnegie Hall Citywide at Bryant Park

La Excelencia (courtesy)

BRYANT PARK, Garment District, Manhattan. 🇨🇴

La India Plays the Colombian Independence Festival

La India in 2015 (Omar Cruz/Lehman Center)

PRUDENTIAL CENTER, Newark, New Jersey 🇵🇷

El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico Plays the Colombian Independence Festival

El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico (the artists)

PRUDENTIAL CENTER, Newark, New Jersey 🇵🇷

Colombian Independence Festival Features Grupo Niche, Gran Combo, India, Jesse Uribe, Paola Jara, Francy, and Alex Sensation

Colombian Independence Festival (Dmytro Balkhovitin/Dreamstime)

PRUDENTIAL CENTER, Newark, New Jersey 🇨🇴 🇵🇷

Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) Brings Alt Rock Fusions to NYC

Latin Alternative Music Conference, LAMC (Krakenimages/Adobe)

INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL, Times Square, Manhattan
DROM, East Village, Manhattan
CENTRAL PARK, Manhattan
SOBs, Hudson Square, Manhattan
🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇰 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪 🇻🇪

Tony Succar Peruvian Salsa in New York City

Tony Succar in 2021 (Kike San Martin/artist)

JOSIE ROBERTSON PLAZA, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇵🇪

New York Salsa Festival is a Night of Salsa Legends

New York Salsa Festival (EKH Pictures/Adobe)

BARCLAYS CENTER, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇻🇪

Willie Colón Headlines the New York Salsa Festival

Willie Colón (courtesy)

BARCLAYS CENTER, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn 🇵🇷

Andy Montañez is a Puerto Rican Salsa Legend

Andy Montañez (Daniel Romero/Lehman Center)

CONEY ISLAND AMPHITHEATER, Coney Island, Brooklyn 🇵🇷

BIG Salsa Festival 2024 is New York City’s Memorial Day Weekend Salsa & Bachata Dance Festival

BIG Salsa Festival New York (Edward Olive/Dreamstime)

NEW YORK HILTON MIDTOWN, Manhattan 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach 2024 is a Hot Summer Salsa Dance Party

Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach (Steven Rivieccio/Dreamstime)

ORCHARD BEACH, Pelham Bay Park, The Bronx 🇵🇷

Lulada Club, Women’s Salsa Orchestra, Plays a Women’s Health Services Benefit at SOB’s

Lulada Club (Andrea Chavarro)

SOB’s Sounds of Brazil, Hudson, Square, Manhattan 🇨🇴 🇺🇸 🇵🇷

Bryant Park Dance Party 2024 Free Dance Lessons and Live Music for Dancing Salsa, R&B, Hustle, Bachata, Swing, and Motown

Bryant Park Dance Party (Angelito Jusay/Bryant Park)

BRYANT PARK, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷

La Sonora Ponceña Plays Puerto Rican Salsa at Lehman Center

La Sonora Ponceña in 2024 (Lehman Center)

LEHMAN CENTER, Jerome Park, The Bronx 🇵🇷

Conzo: A Look Back at The Bronx, 1977-84 Hip Hop and Salsa at Bronx Documentary Center

Conzo: A Look Back at The Bronx 1977-84

BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER, Melrose, The Bronx 🇺🇸 🇵🇷

Pete Rodríguez Plays Afro-Cuban Jazz and Puerto Rican Salsa at Pregones/PRTT

Pete Rodríguez (Dwayne Hills)

PREGONES/PRTT, Concourse, The Bronx 🇨🇺 🇵🇷

Jerry Rivera Sings Puerto Rican Salsa at Bergen Performing Arts Center

Jerry Rivera in 2015 (Juan Jose Napuri Guevara/Dreamstime)

BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Englewood, New Jersey 🇵🇷

Tite Curet Alonso, The Salsa Poet, Wrote Many Salsa Hits, But is Not Credited

Catalina "Tite" Curet Alonso was one of the great salsa composers (Refrina/Adobe)

GUAYAMA, Puerto Rico ~ February 12, 1926 🇵🇷

Rubén Blades in New York City

Rubén Blades in 2010 (Aurora Esperanza/Dreamstime)

RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, Rockefeller Center, Manhattan 🇵🇦

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

Machito at Glen Island Casino in New York in 1947 (William Gottlieb/Library of Congress)

HAVANA, Cuba ~ December 3, 1907 🇨🇺

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

Mambo Diablo salutes Tito Puente and legends of Latin music (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.

🇵🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇸

Joe Arroyo was One of the Godfathers of Colombian Salsa

Joe Arroyo statue in Barranquilla, Colombia (camaralucida1/Adobe)

CARTAGENA, Colombia ~ The singer who mixed many Caribbean traditions into Colombian Salsa, was born on November 1, 1955.

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Celia Cruz, “The Queen of Salsa,” Popularized Latin Music Around the World

Celia Cruz (Estate of Adál Maldonado / Roberto Paradise)

HAVANA, Cuba, October 21, 1925 🇨🇺

Rhythm, Bass And Place: Through the Lens Photography Exhibition Shows Music & Dance as the Heartbeat of Latin New York at the CCCADI

Rhythm Bass and Place (Joe Conzo Jr/CCCADI)

CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE (CCCADI) East Harlem, 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
🇺🇸 🇲🇽 | 🇭🇹 | 🇨🇴 | 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 | 🇩🇿 🇲🇱 🇲🇦

Roberto Roena “El Señor Bongó,” was a Bomba and Salsa Legend

Roberto Roena (Lehman Center)

LABIOS DULCE, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, January 16, 1940 🇵🇷

Los Hacheros Play Salsa at The Django

Los Hacheros (courtesy the artists)

Tuesday, January 3, 2023
THE DJANGO
Tribeca, NYC
🇵🇷

Lalo Rodríguez, Salsa Romantica

Lalo Rodríguez. Courtesy the artist.

Friday, July 26, 2019
SUMMERSTAGE
SOUNDVIEW PARK
Clason Point, The Bronx

Tito Rodríguez ¡El Inolvidable! is Tributed by Tito Rodríguez Jr, Gilberto Santa Rosa & Friends at Hostos Center

Tito Rodríguez in 1960 by James J. Kriegsmann for United Artists (Tito Rodríguez Jr)

Friday-Sunday, November 11-13, 2022
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
🇵🇷

Maelo Ruiz Sings Salsa Romántica at Sabor Latino

Maelo Ruiz (Lehman Center)

Saturday, September 24, 2022
SABOR LATINO
Elmhurst, Queens
🇵🇷

Son Del Monte Plays Pachanga (Salsa Cuban Style) for the New York Salsa Congress at the Marriott Marquis

Son Del Monte (Carnegie Hall)

Sunday, September 4, 2022
MARRIOTT MARQUIS
Times Square
🇨🇺🇵🇷

CCCADI’s AfriBembé Festival: Sankofa! Celebrates Our African Roots in El Barrio!

AfriBembé Festival: Sankofa! (CCCADI)

HARLEM ART PARK “El Barrio” East Harlem 🌍🇧🇷🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇬🇭🇬🇳🇭🇹🇵🇷

Tony Succar Joins Issac Delgado’s “Con Tumbao” Timba Band for the Blue Note Jazz Festival at Sony Hall

SONY HALL Times Square Theater District, Manhattan 🇵🇪 🇨🇺

Gerardo Contino y Los Habaneros Play Cuban Timba at Terraza 7

Gerard Contino y Los Habaneros (Gigi de la Torre/the artists)

TERRAZA 7, Elmhurst, Queens 🇨🇺

Johnny Pacheco was La Salsa!

Johnny Pacheco, leader of the Fania All-Stars (courtesy Fania Records)

Thursday, March 25, 2022
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Tito Rojas, “El Gallo Salsero,” was a Great Salsero

Tito Rojas (courtesy the artist)

Tuesday, June 14, 2022
🇵🇷

Tony Succar & India Play Latin Grammy-winning Salsa at The Ritz

Saturday, November 6, 2021
RITZ THEATRE
Elizabeth, New Jersey
🇵🇪🇵🇷

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