For our 3rd annual Parranda con Paranda: A Puerto Rican & Garifuna Holiday Celebration, we evoke the Puerto Rican traditions of “parrandas”—Christmas caroling processions and the Garifuna “paranda” song style to bring together these two communities. If you listen closely to the big barrel-type drums both groups use, you can hear echoes of familiar rhythms […]
7:00 pm: Film Screening of Harlem Street Singer (2013), followed by Q&A with director Trevor Laurence and producer Woody Man 8:30 pm: Performance of Rev. Gary Davis' music by Gospel singing sensation Monica Hope and guitarist Solomon Hicks Through high school and college as I followed the Grateful Dead on tour and followed Hot Tuna […]
A screening of Finah Misa Kule with a Q&A by Kewulay Kamara and Steve Zeitlin. Performances by Kankaba Kanuteh and Badenya featuring Kewulay Kamara, Sa- lieu Suso, Abdoulaye Diabate, Mangue Syllla and Kalie Kamara, representing the jail tradition of Sierra Leone, the Gambia and Mali. Last month at the BMHC we paid tribute to the […]
A screening of The Girls in the Band (2013) about the Sweethearts of Rhythm followed by a Q&A. Music performed by The Stomp Station Swing Band. Come early for the opening of the South Bronx Culture Trail’s Jazz festival, Lookin’ Up in the Boogie Down, featuring Bobby Sanabria & the Multiverse Big Band. Swing music, […]
Featuring musicians Ifti & the Royal Bengal Tea House, a fusion of Spanish and Bengali folk songs with the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore and Pablo Neruda recited by Ifti Chowdhury and Misty Martínez followed by the Feringhees who perform a fusion of Bengali music and rock music. This event is part of the South Bronx […]
A presentation about the Harlem Hellfighters followed by the music of the Monroe Mustangs (of Monroe College) and Zlatne Uste Balkan brass band In 1910 James Reese Europe started the Clef Club, as a rival to the New York local of the American Federation of Musicians which didn’t admit Blacks. Two years later he founded […]
Performance by the 319th U.S. Army band based out of Fort Totten in Queens
Today’s program will celebrate the Bronx’s most famous maritime connection—the writer Herman Melville, who is the author or seafaring stories, most notably, Moby Dick—is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery. The program will begin with a performance at the Hunts Point Riverside Park amphitheater by the Brooklyn Blowhards, who pay sea shanties and whaling songs set to […]
Poetry in the key of salsa by La madrina of Nuyorican Poetry Sandra Maria Esteves followed by a performance of Los Más Valientes Latin music, particularly the Afro-Cuban genre that took hold in the United States throughout the 20th century in various forms, like most popular musical genres, can be quite macho. Album covers showing […]
We're making history! Join us at the corner of Lyman Place and Freeman Street during a street co-naming ceremony in honor of Elmo Hope, followed by a reception at the Bronx Music Heritage Center. A longtime resident of Lyman Place, Hope was one of the pioneering musicians in bebop, along with Thelenious Monk and Dizzy […]
