• Afri-Garifuna Ensemble featuring Lucy Blanc

    BMHC Lab 1303 Louis Nine Blvd, Bronx, NY, United States

    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.

  • DJ Kool Herc, Hip Hop Pioneer

    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 Lab & Louis Niné Boulevard Rebel Diaz, Grandmaster Caz, Bocafloja, Circa ’95, YC the Cynic, Grand Wizzard Theodore, and Sadat X. Clive Campbell emigrated to […]

  • The Spirit of Aña

    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, screening of film clip from Oya: Something Happened on the Way to West Africa with Bronx filmmaker Seyi Adebanjo. Screening of the film, Sweet Dreams, […]

  • La Ensalada de Pulpo with Gilberto “Pulpo” Colón

    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 starring her and Marc Anthony). The film will be followed by a Q&A with Gilberto “Pulpo” Colón and José Mangual, who were members of Hector […]

  • TKOs and Timbales: The Intersection of Boxing & Music

    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, screenings of When We Were Kings with director Leon Gast and The Champion’s Trek: The Untold Story of Sugar Ramos with filmmaker Elio Bernardo-Ruíz Even […]

  • Bertha Hope, Jazz Pianist & Composer

    BMHC honors the Jazz pioneer with a performance Bertha Hope Quintet at the Morris High School Campus. Bertha Hope is from Los Angeles and attended Manual Arts High School in […]

  • Women's History Month

    Poetry and music by Hattie Gossett, Michael Wimberly, plus musical performance by Jenn Jade Named in honor of the pioneering jazz vocalist who made the Bronx her home, the program […]

  • 2nd Annual Spirit of Aña: Women and Drums

    BMHC Lab 1303 Louis Nine Blvd, Bronx, NY, United States

    Musical performance by Alessandra Belloni & the Daughters of Cybele, plus a discussion with Mary Gardner, Yvette Ghoughassian, Norka Hernandez Nadal, and Liliana Raposo