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October 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬
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.
Yemayá is the Yoruba Great Mother Orisha of the Sea
February 2 🇧🇷 🇺🇾
September 7 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
December 31 🇧🇷
Melvis Santa Afro-Cuban Jazz For The Ancestors
BAR LUNÁTICO, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn 🇨🇺
BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇨🇺
Dayramir González Jazz Piano with Afro-Cuban Soul
QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY CENTRAL LIBRARY, Jamaica, Queens 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇺🇾
Angélique Kidjo Celebrates 40 Years of Musical Joy with Nile Rodgers and Derrick Hodge at Carnegie Hall
CARNEGIE HALL, Midtown, Manhattan 🇧🇯 🇫🇷
Daymé Arocena, “Cuba’s Finest Young Female Singer,” Joins Sofía Rey for a Night of Folk & Futurism
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx 🇨🇺
Orunmila is the Yoruba Orisha of Wisdom and Divination
October 4 🇨🇺
Pedrito Martinez is the World’s First-Call Rumbero
BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan 🇨🇺
Obatalá is the Yoruba Orisha Who Made the World and People
September 24 🇨🇺
Oshun is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Fresh Water, Fertility and Love
September 8 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
Yewá, the Yoruba Orisha of the Cemetery, Dances with the Dead to Help Them Move On
AUGUST 11 🇧🇯 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇵🇷 🇺🇸
Aggayú Solá is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Flowing Forces of Nature
JULY 25 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
Ogun is the Yoruba Orisha of Metals, Technology, Drivers, and Rum, ¡Aguanile!
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
Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Benin, Togo 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬
On Yoruba New Year “E ku odun, eku iyedun”
JUNE 3 🇳🇬 🇧🇯 🇹🇬
Babalú-Ayé is the Cuban Yoruba Orisha of Sickness and Healing
DECEMBER 17 🇨🇺
Manny Vega’s “Byzantine Bembé, New York” is a Love Letter to “El Barrio,” Puerto Rican, and Yoruba Culture
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, “El Barrio” East Harlem, Manhattan 🇵🇷 🇧🇷
Santa Barbara is the Female Changó
DECEMBER 4 🇵🇷
Changó is the Yoruba Orisha of Music, Drumming, and Dancing
DECEMBER 4 🇨🇺
Inle is 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 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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New York Philharmonic “Oyá” Reopens David Geffen Hall with Brazilian Composer Marcos Balter’s Work on the Yoruba Orisha of Rebirth
DAVID GEFFEN HALL, Lincoln Center, Manhattan 🇧🇷
AfriBembé Festival Honors Oshún Virtually
Saturday, September 19, 2020 from 2-8pm
CCCADI.ORG
FREE
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Caribbean Cultural Center teaches Afro-Cuban Plant and Herb Traditions
Thursdays, April 16, 23, 30 & May 7, 2020
ZOOM
CARIBBEAN CULTURAL CENTER AFRICAN DIASPORA INSTITUTE
El Barrio, East Harlem
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Oba Frank Bell leads a webinar on Integral Plants & Herbs in Afro-Cuban Orisha & Palo Traditions. FREE