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Latin Culture by the World Music Institute
MARCH
Italian Alternative
Paolo Angeli plays Sardinian folk-influenced Latin alternative on his one-of-a-kind, one-man-band guitar, for the World Music Institute at Joe’s Pub in NoHo, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 8, 2025, at 7pm (6pm doors). worldmusicinstitute.org 🇮🇹
Angeli is sort of a Laurie Anderson of the guitar. He has added so many physical and electronic extensions to his instrument, that he is a one-man-band. You’ve never seen or heard anything like this. Sardinia is a now Italian island that has historically been ruled by many Mediterranean powers of North Africa, West Asia, and Europe. You can hear the island’s history in his music. You will be surprised that it’s all made by one man on one extended guitar.
Spanish Flamenco Festival
Marina Heredia “De lo jondo a Lorca” (From the depths to Lorca) sings a Granadan flamenco tribute to Spanish poet Federico Lorca with guitarist José Quevedo “El Bolita,” for the World Music Institute and Flamenco Festival New York; at Kaufman Music Center in Manhattan’s Upper West Side; on Friday, March 14, 2025 at 8pm (7:30pm doors). From $45. worldmusicinstitute.org 🇪🇸
Spanish Flamenco Festival
La Plazuela makes their New York debut with rocking, flamenco-infused Latin alternative; for the World Music Institute at Le Poisson Rouge (LPR) in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 15, 2025, at 10pm, (9:30pm doors). From $45. worldmusicinstitute.org 🇪🇸 This show has been cancelled.
Gambian Alternative
Sona Jobarteh, the Gambian multi-instrumentalist and first female kora player from a griot family, plays Gambian alternative; for the World Music Institute at Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at 8pm (6pm doors). From $32.50. worldmusicinstitute.org 🇬🇲
Griots (traveling storytellers and musicians) are the West African equivalent of American folk singers, Cuban trova singers, and European troubadours. People around the world do similar things because we are human. Jobarteh is special in that she keeps family traditions alive, while at the same time bringing them into the present and our shared future.
Indian Alternative
Anoushka Shankar, the British-American sitar player of Indian descent, plays Indian alternative; for the World Music Institute at Le Poisson Rouge (LPR) in Greenwich Village, on Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 8pm (7pm doors) from $60 plus minimums; and The Town Hall in Midtown, Manhattan on Friday, March 28, 2025. worldmusicinstitute.org 🇮🇳
JUNE
Brazilian MPB
Caetano Veloso “Meu Coco” brings his 2021 MPB album (rumored to be his farewell) to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; on Wednesday-Thursday, April 3-4, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $35. worldmusicinstitute.org 🇧🇷
World Music Institute Tickets
WMI presents at venues across NYC. Tickets may be available from both WMI and presenters. If one sells out, the other may have tickets.
About the World Music Institute
The World Music Institute is one of America’s leading global music and dance presenters. WMI was founded in 1985. It presents at multiple venues across New York City.
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Latin Artists
These are some of the artists who have performed recently:
- Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Cuban jazz. 🇨🇺
- Aurelio Martínez & the Garifuna Soul Band Garifuna folk. 🇭🇳 *
- Caetano Veloso Brazilian música popular brasileira (MPB). 🇧🇷
- Daymé Arocena Cuban jazz. 🇨🇺 *
- Fuensanta Méndez Mexican alternative. 🇲🇽 *
- Gaby Moreno Guatemalan alternative. 🇬🇹 *
- Grupo Rebolu Colombian champeta. 🇨🇴
- Israel Fernández Spanish Romani flamenco. 🇪🇸 *
- Leyla McCalla New Orleans Haitian classical, folk. 🇭🇹
- Locobeach psychedelic cumbia rock. 🇻🇪
- Quinteto Astor Piazzolla Argentine tango. 🇦🇷 *
- Silvana Estrada Mexican alternative. 🇲🇽 *
- Sílvia Pérez-Cruz Catalan Spanish folk. 🇪🇸 *
- Snarky Puppy American jazz. 🇺🇸 *
- Tomatito Spanish flamenco. 🇪🇸 *
- Yasser Tejeda Afro-Dominican alternative 🇩🇴 *
* sponsored