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Yoruba Culture

Browse articles about Yoruba Orishas, concerts, dances, talks, and lessons in the ancestral traditions, in New York City.

Most Americans know Yoruba culture through Cuban Yoruba, where it absorbed Dahomey culture and some Kongo culture.

It's also become part of American culture through Br'er Rabbit and Bugs Bunny.

Oyá is the Yoruba Orisha of Great Storms with Wind and Lightning that Bring Death and Rebirth

Oyá (neonshot/Adobe)

February 2 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
October 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬

Yemayá is the Yoruba Great Mother Orisha of the Sea

Yemayá, Yoruba orisha of motherhood and the sea (Audrey Kuzmin/Adobe)

February 2 🇧🇷 🇺🇾
September 7 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
December 31 🇧🇷

Melvis Santa Afro-Cuban Jazz For The Ancestors

Melvis Santa (Zuza Gasiorowska)

BAR LUNÁTICO, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn 🇨🇺
BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Dayramir González Jazz Piano with Afro-Cuban Soul

Dayramir Gonzalez (Lincoln Center)

QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY CENTRAL LIBRARY, Jamaica, Queens 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇺🇾

Angélique Kidjo Celebrates 40 Years of Musical Joy with Nile Rodgers and Derrick Hodge at Carnegie Hall

Angélique Kidjo (Carnegie Hall)

CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇧🇯 🇫🇷

Daymé Arocena, “Cuba’s Finest Young Female Singer,” Joins Sofía Rey for a Night of Folk & Futurism

Daymé Arocena (Carnegie Hall)

HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx 🇨🇺

Orunmila is the Yoruba Orisha of Wisdom and Divination

Orunmila, Yoruba orisha of wisdom, ileke (Jorge Ferreiro/Adobe)

October 4 🇨🇺

Pedrito Martinez is the World’s First-Call Rumbero

Pedrito Martinez (Richard Termine)

BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇨🇺

Obatalá is the Yoruba Orisha Who Made the World and People

Obatalá orisha (Epitavi/Dreamstime)

September 24 🇨🇺

Oshun is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Fresh Water, Fertility and Love

Oshún, Orisha of fresh water, fertility and love (Diana/Adobe)

September 8 🇨🇺 🇵🇷

Yewá, the Yoruba Orisha of the Cemetery, Dances with the Dead to Help Them Move On

Yewá in pink watches over the Old San Juan cemetery (Ajitha/Adobe)

AUGUST 11 🇧🇯 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

Aggayú Solá is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Flowing Forces of Nature

Aggayú Solá (Jose/Adobe)

JULY 25 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇵🇷

Ogun is the Yoruba Orisha of Metals, Technology, Drivers, and Rum, ¡Aguanile!

Ogun, orisha of metals (Iurii Krasilnikov/Dreamstime)

JANUARY 29 Cuban tradition (Regla de Ocha) 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
JUNE 29 African tradition (Regla de Ifá) 🇧🇯 🇳🇬 🇹🇬

Eleguá ~ Papa Legba ~ Elegbara ~ Eshu is the Yoruba Orisha of the Crossroads of Destiny

Eleguá watches a door in Cuba. He watches our door too. (Tupungato/Dreamstime)

Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Benin, Togo 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬

On Yoruba New Year “E ku odun, eku iyedun”

Yoruba New Year (Terver/Adobe)

JUNE 3 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬

Babalú-Ayé is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Sickness and Healing

Babalú-Ayé at San Lazaro Church in El Rincón, Cuba (Joe Sohm/Dreamstime)

DECEMBER 17 🇨🇺

Manny Vega’s “Byzantine Bembé, New York” is a Love Letter to “El Barrio,” Puerto Rican, and Yoruba Culture

"Byzantine Bembé" New York by Manny Vega: Manny Vega, "Bomba Celestial," Colored glass on plaster, 2009–2010, Collection of Bobbito García AKA Kool Bob Love (Manny Vega/MCNY)

MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, “El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇵🇷 🇧🇷

Santa Barbara is the Female Changó

Santa Barbara in the Salamanca Cathedral (Jorisvo/Dreamstime)

DECEMBER 4 🇵🇷

Changó is the Yoruba Orisha of Music, Drumming, and Dancing

Changó dancer in Cuba (Kobby Dagan)

DECEMBER 4 🇨🇺

Inle is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Medical Workers and Fishers

Inle, the Cuban Yoruba orisha of medical workers and fishers.

October 24 🇨🇺

Banda Iroko Will Make You Want to Dance Like You’re Madly in Love

Banda Iroko (Thibault Lajouanie)

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

🇮🇱 🇵🇷

New York Philharmonic “Oyá” Reopens David Geffen Hall with Brazilian Composer Marcos Balter’s Work on the Yoruba Orisha of Rebirth

New York Philharmonic "Oya" (Neonshot/Adobe)

DAVID GEFFEN HALL, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇧🇷

AfriBembé Festival Honors Oshún Virtually

AfriBembé Festival (Worldshots/Dreamstime)

Saturday, September 19, 2020 from 2-8pm
CCCADI.ORG
FREE
🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇵🇦 🇵🇷 🇹🇹 🇺🇸

Caribbean Cultural Center teaches Afro-Cuban Plant and Herb Traditions

Caribbean Cultural Center teaches Afro-Cuban Plant and Herb Traditions (CCCADI)

Thursdays, April 16, 23, 30 & May 7, 2020
ZOOM
CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE
El Barrio, East Harlem
–
Oba Frank Bell leads a webinar on Integral Plants & Herbs in Afro-Cuban Orisha & Palo Traditions. FREE

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