The Ghetto Brothers, a former street gang in the South Bronx, became community activists in the 1960s and played a tremendous role in reducing the gang violence in the neighborhood by participating in the historice Hoe Avenue Peace Meeting. They later turned into a musical group, influenced by the Beatles, Santana, doo wop music and Tito Puente. Their album, Power-Fuerza was released in 1972, and was recently re-released to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
Jackie Flowers had everybody up and riding the Love Train tonight at the Bronx Music Heritage Center Laboratory!
Featuring Julio Melendez (third voice and lead guitar), Julio Cuevas (second voice and rhythm guitar), Gloria Mirabal (vocals). Trío Los Platinos was started in 1962. its first members were Pepito […]
Pre-concert discussion about women in jazz featuring Paula Hampton, Bertha Hope, Cobi Narita, Maxine Roach & Carol Sudhalter
The Afri-Garifuna Ensemble featuring Lucy Blanco plus screening of Revolutionary Medicine: A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital, post-concert dance party with DJ Pwhyte.
BMHC honors Hip Hip pioneer DJ Kool Herc. The events is followed by a Jamaican Jam by the legendary DJ Kool Herc and a concert in his honor featuring BMHC […]
Afro-Brazilian drum group Batala NYC, screening of the documentary film Sweet Dreams and Q&A with director Rob Fruchtman, dance & shekere lesson by members of the Legacy Circle Women Drummers, […]
The Bronx Music Heritage Center will celebrate Fania’s legacy with Salsa Fest! with a screening of El Cantante (the story of Fania legend Hector Lavoe produced by Jennifer Lopez and […]
Orlando Marín y su Orquesta; panel discussion with boxer and club owner Carlos Ortiz, Academy-Award filmmaker Leon Gast, rock critic Dave Marsh, and scholar Christina Abreu; Golden Gloves boxing demo, […]