Bronx Living Legend, Caridad De La LuzLa Bruja, spoken word artist & activist, was honored by the Bronx Music Heritage Center in a special Halloween-themed tribute concert at Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Percussionist Angel Rodríguez is the founder of the original Living Legend tribute series held at The Point CDC. He has performed with bands such as Latin Jazz Coalition, La Timba de Ayer and Abrazos Orchestra. The event will take place at Bronx Museum of the Arts. Rodríguez has worked with various community organizations as an […]
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 […]