NYU professor Licia Fiol-Matta presents and reads from her new book, The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music (2017), which traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítez, while exploring how their voices and performance style transformed the public perception of […]
Bomba Dancer and Puerto Rican native Milteri Tucker Concepcion will teach bomba dance, timing, figure and skirt technique. Ages 12 & up. Cost: $15. Pre-Registration necessary.
Celebrating music and dance genres from West Africa and from Garifuna communities in Central America, with performances by Bronx-based groups, The Bambara Drum & Dance Ensemble and Hamalali Wayunagu Garifuna Folkloric & Modern Dance Company
Opening reception for this exhibit ,which pays tribute to the sisters Evelina Antonetty, Elba Cabrera and Lillian Lopez,who settled in the Bronx, where they became activists for the community and the arts.
Film Screening: Birthright Crisis (2013) Screening of thisaward-winning film about the plight of Haitians in the Dominican Republic, followed by a Q&A with director Miriam Neptune. Music by:Yasser Tejeda & Palotré An infectiously rhythmic and cutting-edge group originally from the Dominican Republic, which fuses Dominican roots music with jazz, blues, funk and rock. Co-sponsored with […]
A concert at Crotona Park with Bobby Sanabria & Project X featuring original compositions by Jeff Lederer inspired by the park’s local birds. It will follow a screening of the documentary, Thomas Chapin, Night Bird Song (2016) at the BMHC and Q&A with the director, Stephanie Castillo
Tsidii Le Loka, South African Tony Award nominated star of the Lion King on Broadway, performs To the Rising Sun, featuring the music of Miriam Makeba and the words of Nelson Mandela
Featuring Ray Santos, a Grammy-winning saxophonist and composer who grew up in the Bronx. He is the only living musician who has played, composed and arranged for the Mambo Kings (Machito, Tito Rodriguez, and Tito Puente). The interview will be followed by a music performance by Anaisa Charanga, a multi-generational Cuban-style charanga all-female band, led […]
Followed by a Q&A with Mimi Jones and Bertha Hope. Music performance by the Mimi Jones Band + The Black Madonna Project