Bronx Living Legend Concert: Benny Ayala

May 18, 2019 @ 4:00pm

The BMHC Bronx Living Legends series, which honors Bronx music legends for their careers as performers and educators, will honor Puerto Rican plenero Benny Ayala, for his career as a pioneering plenero in the Bronx and cultivating the next generation of plena and bomba musicians. The program will be emceed by ethnomusicologist Cesar Colóm Montijo. Speakers include Fernando Ponce Laspina, founder of El Maestro, Inc.; Desseree Soto, director of Casita Rincón Criollo; and Aurelio Rivera, plenero and artesano. Performances by Los Artesanos de la Plena and Kinto Zonó. Free & Open to the public. *Held at 52 Park* 681 Kelly Street, Bronx, New York. Image Credit: Irma Lopez