James Lovell and his Garifuna Drummers got the crowd moving with their “journey” through Garifuna history tonight at the Bronx Music Heritage Center Laboratory, from the 17th century Caribbean to today’s Bronx, where a significant number of Garifuna people.
Machito's son Mario Grillo, band leader of the Machito Orchestra, joined Bobby Sanabria tonight for a Q&A filled with hilarious anecdotes from his long career, following a screening of “Machito: A Latin Jazz Legacy.”
Sonia Manzano signed copies of her latest novel "The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano" after her book reading tonight at the Bronx Music Heritage Center Laboratory. Sonia, who lived on Southern Boulevard as a child and grew up playing in Crotona Park, read excerpts from her book, recounted the history of the Young Lords en El Barrio, and […]
Founded in 2010, GRACE DRUMS is a music ensemble of spirited women with the singular mission of making joy contagious across all races, ethnicities, religions, gender & sexual orientation, and any and all other social lines. Using time-honored West African percussion instruments (djembe, djundjun, bells, shakers & frame drums), traditional & western vocals, GRACE DRUMS […]
With Q&A by producer Henry Chalfant In the 70s graffiti artists would gather around DeWitt Clinton High in the Bronx which was just blocks away from the Transit Authority yard where subway cars were stored. With spray paint and felt tipped pens they would create guerilla art on the cars. The impulse to “tag” and […]
With photographer Joe Conzo Jr. & Grandmaster Caz Joe Conzo Jr. In 2005, The New York Times proclaimed photographer Joe Conzo Jr. as “The Man Who Took Hip-Hop's Baby Pictures.” Born and raised in the Bronx, “Joey” an EMT for the NYFD, acquired a flair for photog- raphy at the age of nine and later […]