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 Lab & Louis Niné Boulevard Rebel Diaz, Grandmaster Caz, Bocafloja, Circa ’95, YC the Cynic, Grand Wizzard Theodore, and Sadat X. Clive Campbell emigrated to […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Featuring poetry with Nuyorican legend Jesús “Papoleto” Meléndez and doo wop music with SPANK! in honor of the Chords, who attended Morris High School
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 Los Angeles. It was on the west coast that she met pianist Elmo Hope, who became her husband in 1957. Bertha studied piano at Los […]
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 will open with a poetry reading by Hattie Gossett, “jazzy old babe still poeting on the mike: excerpt from a one-woman show,” accompanied by Michael […]
Musical performance by Alessandra Belloni & the Daughters of Cybele, plus a discussion with Mary Gardner, Yvette Ghoughassian, Norka Hernandez Nadal, and Liliana Raposo