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 Lacomba Jr., Teddy Torres, and Julio Cuevas, who was the trío’s director. Today its members are Ray Vasqúes (first voice), Julio Melendez (first guitar and […]
Q&A with executive producer Noemi Figueroa Soulet and 65th Regiment veteran Eugenio Quevado. The Borinqueneers chronicles the never-before-told story of the Puerto Rican 65th Infantry Regiment, the only all-Hispanic unit in U.S. Army history, The 65th Infantry Regiment was nicknamed “The Borinqueneers” after “Borinquen,” the name given to the island by its indigenous inhabitants, the […]
Palabras/Words: Reading of Chulito: The Novel with author Charles Rice Gonzalez Charles Rice-González, born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx, is a writer, long-time community and LGBT activist and Executive Director of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. He received a B.A. in Communications from Adelphi University and an M.F.A. in […]
A Puerto Rican and Garifuna Holiday concert. Featuring Hector “Pucho” Alamo (cuatro), Carlos Espada (lead vocals and percussion), Matthew Gonzalez (percussion), Jorge “Georgie” Vazquez (percussion), James Lovell (guitar and vocals), Delmo Nuñez (percussion and vocals), Julio Nuñez (percussion and vocals), Chester Nuñez (percussion and vocals), Lucy Blanco (vocals and maracas), Gianina “Scarlet” Nolberto (dance). The […]
Film: Latinos Beyond Reel” Challenging Media Stereotypes and a Q&A with director Miguel Picker and producer Edwin Pagán.
With the author Joe Flood. The one thing people continue to remember about the Bronx is its devastation through the fires in the 1970s and 1980s . The area was documented on celluloid— the opening shot of Paul Newman’s movie, Fort Apache, the Bronx, was shot right outside the Bronx Music Heritage Center’s door. In […]
We invite you to our gorgeous mosaic to join in with Antoinette Montague as we cele- brate Black History Month. and the pride of a people whose boots on the ground move- ment helped make America beautiful.. From Africa, to slavery, historic Civil Rights March songs from Mahalia Jackson, to Curtis Mayfield...may we the "people […]
Recently there was an exhibit at the New York Public Library called, 100 Years of Flamenco. It included beautiful photos of the greatest dancers that have graced New York’s stages and were the toasts of the dance world. However, one significant point that it left out was the grassroots perspective on the art of flamenco. […]
Pre-concert discussion about women in jazz featuring Paula Hampton, Bertha Hope, Cobi Narita, Maxine Roach & Carol Sudhalter